Lead DevOps Engineer - AWS, AI Infra, Remote

Teamtailor; Dubai; Remote; AED 400,000 - 650,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Holiday entitlement

Annual off-site Dubai

Remote work options

Health & wellness

AI toolkit access

Education budget

26 days holiday

Job summary

Praktika.ai is hiring a Lead DevOps Engineer to own all of our AWS-based infrastructure and access control. This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll design, build, run, and secure the platform as we scale across regions.

You’ll collaborate with every engineering team, drive automation, governance, and cost efficiency, and encode security and compliance into every deployment. Remote-friendly in Dubai or Eastern Europe.

Qualifications

• Own and operate AWS infrastructure end-to-end.
• Hands-on experience with ECS and containers.
• Terraform IaC and security-first mindset.
• Ability to work asynchronously in a distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Own the infrastructure end-to-end: design, build, run and own IAM across the org.
• Manage identity and access for cloud accounts and internal tools.
• Drive infrastructure security and compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR).
• Monitor and optimize cloud costs across clouds and AI vendors.
• Run ML/LLM inference infrastructure and automation pipelines.
• Automate repetitive tasks and enable self-service for teams.
• Improve processes around AI: monitoring, alerting, incident triage, reviews.
• Build safe deployment tooling and templates for engineering teams.
• Provide golden paths for delivery teams with CI/CD and templates.

Skills

Ownership mindset

AWS production

Terraform IaC

Security focus

AI tooling usage

Async culture

Tools

AWS ECS

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Datadog

Job description

Praktika.ai is hiring a Lead DevOps Engineer to own all of our AWS-based infrastructure and access control. This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll design, build, run, and secure the platform as we scale across regions.

You’ll collaborate with every engineering team, drive automation, governance, and cost efficiency, and encode security and compliance into every deployment. Remote-friendly in Dubai or Eastern Europe.