Senior DevOps Lead for AI Platform — France (Hybrid)

Ridecell; Bordeaux; Hybrid; EUR 92,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

Ridecell is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to drive the infrastructure powering AI transformation for European fleet and leasing platforms. The role covers building a robust, scalable platform with GitOps, strong incident response, and security controls.

Based in France with hybrid work, the project spans multiple European countries and involves collaboration with a US-based owner. Start date is December 1, 2026 or January 1, 2027, with a ~6-month term renewable and potential full-time

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering, including lead of production infrastructure.
• Hands-on with production Kubernetes clusters: upgrades, networking, storage, capacity planning, incident recovery.
• Experience building and supporting internal platforms used by application engineering teams.
• Experience carrying a pager, running incident response, and writing postmortems.
• Experience with security compliance (SOC2, threat modeling, penetration testing) in enterprise environments.
• Experience working directly with enterprise IT and security teams.

Responsibilities

• Own production infrastructure and on-call readiness, responding to severity 1 outages outside core hours.
• Re-engineer infrastructure to function as an in-house PaaS to accelerate engineering velocity.
• Standardize GitOps deployment paths and provide self-service for engineering teams.
• Ensure enterprise security and compliance across SOC2 controls and related requirements.
• Support data and AI workloads, including data pipelines, query engines, and self-hosted LLM inference.

Skills

Incident response

Pager leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Self-directed

English proficiency

Education

CS/Engineering degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

IBM Cloud

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Ridecell is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to drive the infrastructure powering AI transformation for European fleet and leasing platforms. The role covers building a robust, scalable platform with GitOps, strong incident response, and security controls.

Based in France with hybrid work, the project spans multiple European countries and involves collaboration with a US-based owner. Start date is December 1, 2026 or January 1, 2027, with a ~6-month term renewable and potential full-time