Senior DevOps Engineer

Simon-Kucher is establishing a central Data & AI function to support generative AI based solutions and software development through its Data Analytics team Elevate and Software Development team Engine.

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud, or Platform Engineering.
• Strong production experience with Azure (especially Azure Foundry).
• Solid Kubernetes experience (AKS preferred).
• Knowledge of SharePoint integration, Power Automate, and Logic Apps.
• Strong Docker and containerization skills.
• Strong API integration experience (REST, webhooks, OAuth2/OIDC, service principals/managed identity).
• Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform preferred).
• Experience supporting ML/AI workloads or data-heavy systems.
• Security-first mindset and experience designing production-ready environments.
• Mastery of clear and concise communication as well as documentation for different stakeholder groups in English (C1+).
• Experience with LangGraph, LangChain, LangSmith, or other evaluation, testing, and observation orchestration platforms is preferred.

• Design, maintain and support cloud infrastructure for AI solutions.
• Build secure landing zones (VNets, private endpoints, RBAC, Managed Identities).
• Standardize infrastructure patterns and reusable modules.
• Operate AKS / Azure Container Apps for containerized AI workloads.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code solutions.
• Implement robust CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate container build and release workflows.
• Support model deployment patterns (real-time endpoints, batch jobs).
• Ensure AI cloud security and compliance principles.
• Implement monitoring & observability (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, App Insights).
• Establish guardrails for LLM integrations (data handling, prompt injection mitigations, secrets, logging redaction, model access controls).