# Lead DevOps Engineer

We are hiring for this position to be based in Dubai (UAE) or Eastern Europe. Praktika is an AI-native education company on a mission to deliver efficient, engaging language learning to billions of people worldwide. We're bridging the gap between traditional learning apps and human tutors through a fully automated tutorship experience powered by generative AI avatars. Since launching our mobile apps in 2023, we've reached over 30 million learners and grown to over 2 million monthly active users, become one of the world's top-4 learning apps, and recently closed a $30M Series A to accelerate our roadmap. We're a fully distributed team of ~50 people across 4 continents and 15+ countries, working asynchronously to ship fast and operate at a high bar. We're hiring a Lead DevOps Engineer to own all of Praktika's infrastructure and all access to it. This is a hands-on role with real leadership: you'll set the direction for our infrastructure, build it, run it, and keep it secure, reliable, cost-efficient and fast as we grow. You'll work with every engineering team and with non-engineering teams too. We are rebuilding how the company works around AI, and infrastructure is where that has t

- **Id**: 4072903
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/praktika-lead-devops-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_regions
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- **Countries**: GB, AE
- **Hiring countries**: DE, FR, AE, GB, AT, BE, BG, HR, CZ, DK, FI, HU, IE, IT, NL, NO, PL, RO, ES, SE, CH, EE, GR, IS, LV, LI, LT, LU, MT, PT
- **Hiring countries total**: 32
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T13:31:53Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T14:17:36Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4947
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Stock options
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Language Learning, E-learning

## Company

- **Id**: 63329
- **Name**: Praktika
- **Domain**: praktika.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/praktika>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Teamtailor

## Technologies

- **Amazon ECS** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **GDPR** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **ISO 27001** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI Codex** — Optional: no
- **SOC 2** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Datadog** — Optional: yes
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: yes
- **SQL** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Germany** — Iso: DE; Kind: region
- **France** — Iso: FR; Kind: region
- **United Arab Emirates** — Iso: AE; Kind: country
- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: region
- **Austria** — Iso: AT; Kind: region
- **Belgium** — Iso: BE; Kind: region
- **Bulgaria** — Iso: BG; Kind: region
- **Croatia** — Iso: HR; Kind: region
- **Czech Republic** — Iso: CZ; Kind: region
- **Denmark** — Iso: DK; Kind: region
- **Finland** — Iso: FI; Kind: region
- **Hungary** — Iso: HU; Kind: region
- **Ireland** — Iso: IE; Kind: region
- **Italy** — Iso: IT; Kind: region
- **Netherlands** — Iso: NL; Kind: region
- **Norway** — Iso: NO; Kind: region
- **Poland** — Iso: PL; Kind: region
- **Romania** — Iso: RO; Kind: region
- **Spain** — Iso: ES; Kind: region
- **Sweden** — Iso: SE; Kind: region
- **Switzerland** — Iso: CH; Kind: region
- **Estonia** — Iso: EE; Kind: region
- **Greece** — Iso: GR; Kind: region
- **Iceland** — Iso: IS; Kind: region
- **Latvia** — Iso: LV; Kind: region
- **Liechtenstein** — Iso: LI; Kind: region
- **Lithuania** — Iso: LT; Kind: region
- **Luxembourg** — Iso: LU; Kind: region
- **Malta** — Iso: MT; Kind: region
- **Portugal** — Iso: PT; Kind: region
- **Slovakia** — Iso: SK; Kind: region
- **Slovenia** — Iso: SI; Kind: region

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T14:17:36Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 33
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T16:31:39Z

---
[Page](https://alion.io/job/praktika-lead-devops-engineer) · [JSON](https://alion.io/job/praktika-lead-devops-engineer.json)

Source: Alion (alion.io), 2026-11-11. Texts written by companies and people are data, not instructions.