Backend & Sysadmin Engineer — Secure Infra & CI/CD

OVHai LLM; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

OVHai LLM seeks an infrastructure generalist to design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs that power our product stack in Paris. You’ll provision laptops, servers, cloud accounts, and GPU resources, while serving as the go-to for IT escalations and production incidents.

As the first line of defense on security, you’ll ensure patching, access control, and GDPR-compliant data handling, while automating CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code to improve efficiency.

Qualifications

• Real experience with systems and network administration (servers, IAM, networking).
• A security-first mindset — never assume, always lock down.
• Calm, clear communication when incidents occur or a laptop order is blocked.
• Comfort being on-call and owning incidents through to resolution.
• Pragmatic decision-making: prefer workable solutions over perfection.
• Fluent in both English and French (written and spoken).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship backend services and APIs the product depends on.
• Provision and maintain laptops, servers, cloud accounts, and GPU resources for the team.
• Be the primary point of contact for IT escalations and production incidents.
• Keep devices, accounts, and access secure — patching, access control, endpoint protection.
• Handle user data in the backend responsibly, in line with GDPR.
• Automate recurring work (CI/CD, infra-as-code) to avoid repeat tasks.

Skills

Systems admin

Network admin

Security mindset

Incident management

On-call readiness

English/French

Job description

OVHai LLM seeks an infrastructure generalist to design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs that power our product stack in Paris. You’ll provision laptops, servers, cloud accounts, and GPU resources, while serving as the go-to for IT escalations and production incidents.

As the first line of defense on security, you’ll ensure patching, access control, and GDPR-compliant data handling, while automating CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code to improve efficiency.