(Senior) Cloud/DevOps Engineer (all genders)

The role

You will be part of an ambitious team that has fun delivering highly-reliable software to our customers.

As a DevOps Engineer, you operate our cloud ecosystem. The role is a blend of system and software engineering where coding and automation are essential. You embody the philosophies of DevOps with a greater focus on measuring and achieving reliability through engineering and operations work. You will help the team to build, ship, and operate our product and make AI accessible to bring society to the next level.

Your tasks

• As part of a self-organized agile team, you help to build a developer-friendly, reliable microservice infrastructure

• You promote a DevSecOps mindset within engineering department to own our product end to end

• Collaborate across teams and departments to improve product reliability and performance

• Identify automation opportunities to gain efficiency, reliability, and scalability

• Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, incident handling, and performance analysis

• Research and evaluate solutions for our use cases

What will you need to be successful?

• University degree in Computer Science (or related) or a proven track record as a cloud infrastructure expert

• Large-scale system design exposure, in-depth understanding of UNIX/Linux, network technology, and security practices

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform or similar

• Knowledge of running and scaling microservices with a container orchestrator (Docker) and expertise in Kubernetes

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (Terraform)

• Experience with GitLab CI and ArgoCD

• Observability stack experience (Open Telemetry, Grafana)

• Passion for software engineering and automation, solid experience in one high-level language (Python, TypeScript, or similar, shell scripting is a plus)

• You are eager to learn, a reliable team player, and hungry for new challenges

• Highly proficient in spoken and written English

What we offer

• Productivity and improvement time between the development sprints
• A mentor helping you with your personal goals, technical progress in general and your software engineering skills in particular

• Competitive salary package, flexible working hours, hybrid working model

• Up to 30 Days Workation all around the world

Overview of our tech stack

Google Cloud Platform, Terraform, ArgoCD, Grafana, Kubernetes, MongoDB, TypeScript, Python, Node.js

About us

Understand.ai was founded in 2017 with the vision in mind to make AI accessible to everyone. To achieve this goal, we’re solving the data problem of AI. The tooling and services provided by understand.ai enable our customers to get the right data, at the right quality and right quantity, to make production-grade AI products a reality. Join us to become part of this journey!

Headquartered in Karlsruhe, our team has grown to more than 70 employees since 2017 and is part of the dSPACE Group since 2019. dSPACE is a market innovator and leader in providing solutions and systems for embedded controller software development in the Automotive, Aerospace, and Manufacturing industries. Founded in Germany in 1988, dSPACE employs over 2200 people worldwide, who are committed to making the embedded controls software development process more efficient through innovative tools and services.

Due to our success in growing customer numbers and projects, we need to scale our structure and team sizes in order to continue providing excellent service. Our goal is to make our customers happy and our employees happy. We offer a variety of benefits, but more importantly, we offer an interesting & meaningful work environment and responsibilities, on which you can work with a great level of autonomy.

We can’t wait to see what kind of future you choose to build at UAI - so click on the “apply for this position” button and together create the gold standard for ground truth data for autonomous transportation!