DevOps Engineer (Lower Environment Manager)

AI4U; New Zealand; Remote; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AI4U is seeking a senior DevOps engineer to manage development, QA, UAT, and staging environments in a fully remote contract. You will design and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure that supports AI and ML applications, with a focus on reliability and rapid deployments.

The ideal candidate has a computer science/engineering degree and 5+ years in DevOps or environment management, hands-on CI/CD, IaC, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, Linux, scripting, and Git, plus strong

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or environment management.
• Experience supporting AI or ML products, platforms, or applications.
• Hands-on experience managing development, QA, UAT, and staging environments and coordinating releases.
• Experience with CI/CD tools, Infrastructure as Code, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, Linux administration, scripting, and Git.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools, plus strong troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Keep development, QA, UAT, and staging environments stable, available, and consistent.
• Provision and automate infrastructure, maintain CI/CD pipelines, and coordinate deployments and environment configurations across teams.
• Support infrastructure and deployment needs for AI and ML applications, including model deployment environments and AI pipelines.
• Monitor environment health, troubleshoot incidents, and maintain logging, alerting, access controls, backups, and operational documentation.
• Work with development, QA, infrastructure, security, and release teams to improve reliability and delivery practices.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Communication

Collaboration

Scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field

Tools

CI/CD tools

Infrastructure as Code

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Linux administration

Scripting

Git

Job description

Fully remote Contract

Manage development, QA, UAT, and staging environments for reliable software delivery, including infrastructure that supports AI and ML applications.

CI/CD Infrastructure as Code Kubernetes

What you’ll do

• Keep development, QA, UAT, and staging environments stable, available, and consistent.
• Provision and automate infrastructure, maintain CI/CD pipelines, and coordinate deployments and environment configurations across teams.
• Support infrastructure and deployment needs for AI and ML applications, including model deployment environments and AI pipelines.
• Monitor environment health, troubleshoot incidents, and maintain logging, alerting, access controls, backups, and operational documentation.
• Work with development, QA, infrastructure, security, and release teams to improve reliability and delivery practices.

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or environment management.
• Experience supporting AI or ML products, platforms, or applications.
• Hands‑on experience managing development, QA, UAT, and staging environments and coordinating releases.
• Experience with CI/CD tools, Infrastructure as Code, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, Linux administration, scripting, and Git.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools, plus strong troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with financial technology, banking, payments, or other regulated environments.
• DevSecOps, security automation, high‑availability cloud systems, or IT service management experience.
• Cloud or Kubernetes certifications.