Senior AWS DevOps Engineer (AI focused) [J219] at SKM Group
Home Office, , Germany -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

28 Nov, 25

Salary

0.0

Posted On

29 Aug, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

No

Skills

Production Systems, Infrastructure, Node.Js, Aws, Ecs, Typescript, Metrics, Code, Python

Industry

Information Technology/IT

Description

We are seeking a Senior AWS DevOps Engineer with strong software engineering expertise and a focus on AI-powered applications. This role combines hands-on feature development in Python/TypeScript with deep AWS infrastructure ownership, ensuring scalable, secure, and high-performing AI services. You’ll work closely with client Cloud Engineering teams to align on architecture, deployments, and operational excellence.

CORE REQUIREMENTS

  • 6+ years professional software engineering experience, including senior-level ownership of production systems.
  • Strong proficiency in:
  • TypeScript (Node.js): APIs, event-driven/serverless patterns, testing.
  • Python: data pipelines, backend services, SDKs/CLI tools, AI/ML integrations.
  • AWS (deep hands-on): IAM, VPC, Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway/ALB, S3, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, Step Functions, EventBridge.
  • Infrastructure as Code: AWS CDK (or CDKTF, Pulumi, SST); modular stacks; multi-account, multi-region setups.
  • CI/CD expertise: GitHub Actions/GitLab CI/CodeBuild, artifact management, blue/green or canary deployments.
  • Production troubleshooting: logs/metrics/traces, containers/serverless runtimes, networking/DNS, IAM permissions.
  • Client-facing skills: requirement gathering, design docs, trade-off analysis, stakeholder presentations.
  • Security mindset: least-privilege IAM, secrets management, compliance, cost monitoring.

ABOUT US

We are a software house with 18 years of experience and a global portfolio of projects. We help businesses modernize, scale, and innovate through custom software solutions — always with a focus on flexibility and quality. Our team embraces unconventional ideas and new technologies, delivering solutions that drive real impact. If you value professionalism, creativity, and a strong engineering culture, you’ll feel at home here.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: 54.000,00€ - 120.000,00€ per year

Experience:

  • Software Engineering: 6 years (Required)
  • Python: 5 years (Required)

Work Location: Remot

Responsibilities
  • Build and ship AI-powered services and backend integrations using Python and TypeScript.
  • Design and provision AWS infrastructure using CDK (or equivalent: Pulumi, CDKTF, SST); implement reusable IaC patterns and security guardrails.
  • Own CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and environment management across staging and production.
  • Troubleshoot complex issues across runtime, networking, and IAM, ensuring resilience and scalability.
  • Partner with client Cloud/Platform teams on architecture, networking, IAM, monitoring, and cost optimization.
  • Translate ambiguous requirements into technical designs, RFCs, and roadmaps, communicating trade-offs effectively.
  • Establish observability practices: logs, metrics, traces, alerts, runbooks, and SLOs.
  • Lead incident response and postmortems to drive continuous improvement.
  • Contribute to AI/ML integration patterns (prompting, retrieval, safety/guardrails, latency/cost optimization).
  • Uphold code quality, reviews, automated validation, and mentor engineers.
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