Senior Sovereign AI Platform Engineer

Empiric; Amstelveen; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Empiric is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to help build a Sovereign AI infrastructure on dedicated hardware, enabling secure, scalable AI workloads with self-managed Kubernetes.

You will contribute to an internal Developer Platform (Backstage) and automate deployments with ArgoCD, Terraform/OpenTofu, while ensuring strong security, data sovereignty, and compliance across enterprise environments.

Qualifikationen

• Strong production experience with self-managed Kubernetes
• Expertise in GitOps tooling (ArgoCD/Flux) and IaC
• Software engineering experience in TypeScript, Go or Python
• Experience designing APIs, automation and self-service platform capabilities
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes security, OIDC, network policies and software supply-chain security

Aufgaben

• Designing and operating self-managed Kubernetes platforms supporting AI workloads
• Building an Internal Developer Platform using Backstage for self-service onboarding and deployment
• Engineering automated deployment workflows using ArgoCD, GitOps and OpenTofu/Terraform
• Migrating AI workloads from public cloud to sovereign infrastructure with NVIDIA GPUs and Ceph storage
• Developing platform services and APIs using TS/Go/Python
• Implementing secure identity and secrets management with Keycloak/OpenBao
• Supporting GPU resource allocation and platform scalability

Kenntnisse

Self-managed Kubernetes

GitOps

API design

Programming: TS/Go/Python

Security & IAM

Tools

ArgoCD

Flux

Terraform

OpenTofu

Backstage

Ceph

NVIDIA GPU Operator

Jobbeschreibung

Empiric is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to help build a Sovereign AI infrastructure on dedicated hardware, enabling secure, scalable AI workloads with self-managed Kubernetes.

You will contribute to an internal Developer Platform (Backstage) and automate deployments with ArgoCD, Terraform/OpenTofu, while ensuring strong security, data sovereignty, and compliance across enterprise environments.