Lead DevOps Engineer — AWS Infra, AI-Driven, Remote

Praktika; Greater London; Remote; GBP 106,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity that grows with impact

Remote work (Dubai / Eastern Europe)

Health & wellness benefits

Education & learning budget

Job summary

Praktika is hiring a Lead DevOps Engineer to own all infrastructure and access for the company. This hands-on leadership role requires building, running, and securing AWS-based systems, managing identity, and driving security and compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR).

You will reduce costs, support ML/LLM deployment, and automate operations to enable fast, safe delivery. You will collaborate with every engineering and non-engineering team, fostering an async, written-first culture while expanding

Qualifications

• Ownership mindset: make decisions and finish work without supervision.
• Deep hands-on AWS production experience, including ECS containers.
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform) as a standard practice.
• Solid security foundation and interest in security.
• Experience building tools with AI coding agents; use AI daily.
• Influence teams to adopt new ways without formal authority.
• Set technical direction and break projects into deliverable parts.
• Thrives in async, distributed, written-first culture.

Responsibilities

• Own infra end-to-end: design, build, run AWS-based systems and own failures.
• Own identity and access across cloud accounts, vendors, and tools.
• Own infra security and the technical side of ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR.
• Keep cloud costs visible and under control across clouds and vendors.
• Run hosting and inference infra for ML/LLM models.
• Automate repetitive tasks; enable self-service over tickets.
• Rebuild infra processes around AI: monitoring, alerting, incident triage.
• Deploy internal tools and apps with AI-assisted, safe processes.
• Provide delivery teams with templates and safe deployment paths.

Skills

AWS

ECS

Terraform

Security basics

AI tooling

Automation

IAM

Tools

GitHub Actions

Datadog

CI/CD

Job description

Praktika is hiring a Lead DevOps Engineer to own all infrastructure and access for the company. This hands-on leadership role requires building, running, and securing AWS-based systems, managing identity, and driving security and compliance (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR).

You will reduce costs, support ML/LLM deployment, and automate operations to enable fast, safe delivery. You will collaborate with every engineering and non-engineering team, fostering an async, written-first culture while expanding