EU remote
Sovereign Engineering Platform SRE (DevOps Engineer) (m/f/d)
About this role
Design, build, and operate the secure infrastructure foundation used by Meridian engineering teams for AI-assisted software development, model experimentation, repository analysis, CI/CD execution, and controlled handover work in isolated or sovereignty-sensitive environments. This infrastructure and operations role centers on Kubernetes-based engineering platforms, GitOps, private registries, internal model endpoints, observability, access control, and reliable operations for AI-enabled SDLC workloads.
The candidate should enable engineering velocity while preserving security, auditability, and operational discipline WHAT WILL YOU DO? Build and operate Kubernetes environments that host AI engineering tools, internal model gateways, retrieval components, workflow services, CI/CD runners, and documentation services Implement GitOps and Infrastructure as Code patterns for reproducible provisioning, configuration, policy enforcement, platform upgrades, and disaster recovery readiness Manage private registries, package mirrors, secrets, identity integration, network segmentation, storage classes, backup routines, and controlled connectivity models Provide observability for engineering workloads, including metrics, logs, traces, GPU and CPU utilization, service health, cost signals, and operational runbooks Work with software, security, and architecture teams to ensure the platform supports AI-assisted SDLC workflows without creating uncontrolled data exposure or audit gaps Examples of market tools, models, and platform components expected Platform tooling such as Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, Crossplane, GitLab runners, Jenkins agents, private registries, and internal package mirrors.
AI platform components such as vLLM, Ollama, OpenAI-compatible gateways, Qdrant or similar vector stores, Open WebUI, Continue-compatible endpoints, and workflow services. Observability and operations stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, ELK/OpenSearch, Alertmanager, SRE runbooks, and incident management tooling. Security and governance components such as Vault, Keycloak, network policies, RBAC, admission controls, image scanning, SBOM tooling, and audit logging.