AI Platform Engineer
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AI Platform Engineer building and operating sovereign LLM platforms, RAG systems, and cloud infrastructure. Shaping AI architecture and CI/CD for German IT services provider DATAGROUP.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and operate a sovereign LLM platform, including an OpenAI-compatible gateway, model serving, and GPU infrastructure
- Implement customer-specific knowledge integrations (RAG) using vector databases, embeddings, and reranking
- Ensure cost control, tenant isolation, data protection, and guardrails
- Establish monitoring and observability for the performance, quality, and usage of AI services
- Further develop the container-based platform using Docker, Coolify, and Kubernetes
- Automate deployments and take ownership of CI/CD processes for in-house developments
- Maintain Linux, cloud, and database infrastructure while ensuring stability, security, and availability
- Build and enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions
- Play an active role in shaping the architecture of platform and AI services
- Establish Infrastructure as Code and standardized deployment processes
- Ensure data protection-compliant and tenant-isolated operating models
- Document solutions, share knowledge across the team, and evaluate new technologies in platform engineering and AI
Requirements:
- Degree in computer science, business informatics, or a comparable qualification
- Several years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or cloud/infrastructure environments
- Extensive hands-on experience operating container-based applications and modern platforms
- Experience building and running LLM and AI services in production, ideally in self-hosted environments
- Very good knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and Linux
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms—particularly Azure—and PostgreSQL
- Practical experience with LLM gateways, RAG architectures, vector databases, and model-serving solutions
- Solid Python skills for automation and integrations
- Independent and structured working style, a high degree of ownership, and strong awareness of security and data protection
- Strong architectural and platform expertise
Benefits:
- Open and collaborative company culture and a trusting working environment
- Comprehensive onboarding with support from the entire AIS team
- Flat hierarchies, short decision-making processes, and a high degree of autonomy
- Strategic role with significant influence on the future platform landscape
- Opportunity to work on sovereign LLM hosting and AI infrastructure
- Modern infrastructure featuring Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and cloud technologies
- Opportunity to actively shape standards, processes, and architectural decisions
- Individual professional development budget for conferences, certifications, and specialized training
- Clear career and development paths
- Opportunity to specialize as an AI Platform Engineer or LLMOps expert
- Small, focused, and agile team with short decision-making processes
- Open feedback culture with regular one-to-one meetings and retrospectives















