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Senior Systems Engineer (f/m/d)

Aleph Alpha

Aleph Alpha

Software Engineering
Berlin, Germany · Heidelberg, Germany
Posted on Jun 25, 2025

Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Systems Engineer to join our growing infrastructure team. As we advance our AI stack and scale our infrastructure, you will play a pivotal role in designing, maintaining, and optimising our systems. Your expertise will help ensure high availability, security, and performance while enabling seamless deployment for our customers and internal teams.

As a key technical team member, you will drive improvements across our infrastructure. Your contributions will be instrumental in shaping the future of our AI-powered solutions.

Your Responsibilities:

  • Be part of the design, development, and optimisation of the Pharia AI stack and the supporting infrastructure.

  • Help define best practices and guide teams in writing Helm charts and deploying their artefacts efficiently.

  • Maintain highly available Kubernetes (K8s) clusters on StackIT or similar cloud platforms.

  • You know how to design, build and maintain Kubernetes Operators.

  • Provide strategic guidance and hands-on assistance to customers for deploying and maintaining our products on their infrastructure.

  • Ensure compliance with security and reliability best practices; represent the team in audits and respond to security questionnaires.

  • Drive automation efforts and improve CI/CD pipelines to enhance deployment efficiency and system resilience.

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align infrastructure with business and product goals.

Your Profile:

  • Extensive experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining Kubernetes clusters in production environments.

  • Automation & CI/CD Expertise: Proficiency in tools such as Helm, Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, GitLab CI, and JFrog.

  • Experience with Kubernetes Operators design and implementation.

  • Strong programming skills in at least one language from our stack: Rust or Go.

  • Deep understanding of security, reliability, and scalability best practices for infrastructure.

  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of contributing to a culture of learning and innovation.

  • Experience working in fast-paced startup environments is a plus.

What You Can Expect From Us:

  • Become part of an AI revolution!

  • 30 days of paid vacation

  • Access to a variety of fitness & wellness offerings via Wellhub

  • Substantially subsidised company pension plan for your future security

  • Subsidised Germany-wide transportation ticket

  • Budget for additional technical equipment

  • Flexible working hours for better work-life balance and hybrid working model

  • Virtual Stock Option Plan