
Sovereign AI Platform Engineer (DevOps Engineer) (m/f/d)
Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia2 months ago
Košice, SlovakiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and operate Kubernetes environments optimized for AI inference, retrieval, experimentation, and agent execution.
- Deploy and operate open-source or open-weight model-serving stacks, model gateways, vector databases, and related platform components.
- Build reproducible platform automation using Infrastructure as Code and GitOps approaches.
- Manage private registries, package mirrors, secrets, access controls, storage, networking, and observability in isolated environments.
- Optimize GPU, CPU, compute, storage, and network resources for reliable AI workloads while maintaining security and data sovereignty.
- Support secure, auditable operations for sovereign AI engineering workloads with limited or no public-cloud dependency.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or MLOps.
- Strong Kubernetes and Linux expertise.
- Proven experience with AI infrastructure, model serving, private or on-premises deployments, and production operations for LLM workloads.
- Hands-on Python skills and experience with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and GitOps workflows.
- Good understanding of networking, storage, access control, monitoring, and operational hardening in high-security environments.
- Comfort working in sovereignty-driven environments requiring auditability, isolation, and controlled data handling.
Benefits
- More than 25 benefits covering financial support, learning and development, health and sport, family support, work-life balance, and other areas.
- Work-life balance programs supporting physical and mental well-being and flexibility between work, career, and personal life.
- Remote work is available within Slovakia only due to European taxation regulations.
- Base salary is negotiable based on seniority and experience, with variable compensation and other financial benefits also provided.