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You’ll guide a small, high-impact team of DevOps/SRE engineers, raising standards for uptime, deployment velocity, and operational excellence across cloud and hybrid environments.You’ll work closely with AI Engineers, Backend Engineers, and Product teams to support demanding workloads (including LLM/ Agent orchestration) while building a best-in-class AI engineering platform.\nYour responsibilities will include:\nArchitect and evolve InteractiveAI’s core infrastructure (networking, compute, storage, Kubernetes, CI/CD) to support rapid product delivery\nBuild and operate cloud-agnostic environments (Kubernetes) across VPC, on-prem, and hybrid deployments\nImplement and maintain CI/CD for services and infrastructure (GitOps preferred), enabling safe and frequent deployments\nDefine “gold standards” for reliability: SLOs/SLIs, incident response, on-call practices, runbooks, and postmortems\nEstablish robust observability (metrics, logs, traces) with actionable alerting and performance monitoring\nDrive infrastructure-as-code across environments (Terraform/Pulumi/CloudFormation), including strong review/testing practices\nOwn security fundamentals: secrets management, IAM, network segmentation, vulnerability management, and compliance readiness\nImprove developer productivity with internal tooling, self-service environments, and paved paths\nOptimize costs and capacity planning across clusters and workloads (including bursty inference/agent workloads)\nMentor and grow a small DevOps team, fostering ownership, quality, and pragmatic execution\nWhat We’re Looking For\nWe’re seeking a hands-on technical leader with a builder’s mindset-someone who thrives in fast-moving environments, can scale systems and practices, and can lead through influence and example.Minimum Requirements\n5+ years in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure roles\nProven track record operating production systems with strong reliability and incident management practices\nStrong expertise with Linux, networking fundamentals, and cloud infrastructure patterns\nDeep knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)\nExperience building and owning CI/CD pipelines for microservices and infrastructure\nProficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation)\nStrong scripting/coding ability (Python, Bash, Go, or similar)\nExperience with observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.)\nExperience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)\nAdditional Requirements (Nice to Have)Experience with service mesh, API gateways, or ingress at scale (Istio/Linkerd, NGINX, Envoy, etc.)\nFamiliarity with security & compliance practices (GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC 2 readiness)\nExperience supporting GPU clusters or high-throughput compute workloads (a plus for AI platforms)\nExposure to MLOps/LLM serving infrastructure and performance/cost optimization\nPrior experience leading or mentoring engineers (formally or informally)\nWhat You’ll Get\nCompetitive base salary (€90,000/yr to €110,000/yr) + performance bonuses\nAccess to equity/share plan as it rolls out\nPrivate health insurance\nFlexible work setup + travel when needed (hybrid in Lisbon or Madrid)\n23 days PTO (excluding local public holidays)\nWho You Are\nProactive & Strategic: You anticipate scaling challenges and design systems that won’t collapse under growth.\nTechnical Leader: You raise the bar with strong engineering fundamentals, clarity, and high standards.\nAccountable & High-Ownership: You take responsibility for uptime, security, and delivery outcomes.\nBuilder Mentality: You move fast in ambiguity while keeping production safe and predictable.\nCollaborative Partner: You communicate clearly, build trust across teams, and balance pragmatism with long-term vision.\nInterview Process\nWe keep our process focused and respectful of your time. Most candidates complete it in 2-3 weeks.Here’s what to expect:\nIntro Call - 30 minutes with our team to align on fit and expectations\nTechnical Challenge - A practical DevOps/SRE design or automation task\nTechnical Interview - Deep dive into infrastructure architecture, reliability, security, and delivery practices\nLeadership & Values Interview - Assess alignment with InteractiveAI’s culture and growth mindset\nOffer - Final conversation and offer\nWe’re building a team of builders - people who care about impact, quality, and growth.If that’s you, let’s talk !","description_format":"text","description_chars":4664,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Flexible schedule","Health insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Spain","iso":"ES","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-11T13:56:48Z"}],"liveness":{"score":6,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.227,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":279,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:25","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-02T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":128121,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/interactive-senior-devops-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/interactive-senior-devops-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-03T01:20:20Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1268,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3732,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-04T00:00:00Z"}}}