About the companyKiefer Tech, the technology arm of Kiefer, leverages over 12 years of engineering heritage from the Green Energy sector to deliver cutting-edge AI, robotics, and enterprise solutions across Greece and the EU. They build sovereign AI infrastructure that keeps data within EU borders, respects privacy, and delivers tangible business impact.Guided by their core values—innovation, quality, and long-term client partnerships—they create enterprise-grade AI infrastructure, the first true Greek Large Language Models, and intelligent automation solutions that empower organizations to thrive.About the roleSenior DevOps Engineer and first dedicated infrastructure hire on the Sophea platform. You will standardize deployment pipelines, build observability from the ground up, and extend infrastructure-as-code across all services. The foundations exist; your job is to make them consistent, reliable, and scalable for enterprise production.Our stack10+ Python (FastAPI) and TypeScript microservices on AWS (EKS, App Runner, ECR), with PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, Kafka, and S3.What you will doStandardize CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) and Helm charts across 10+ microservicesBuild centralized logging, metrics, and alerting (currently a gap)Extend Terraform to cover full AWS infrastructureImprove deployment reliability: staging environments, rollback strategies, health checksHarden security: container scanning, secrets management, network policiesImprove the local development experience (Docker Compose orchestration for all services)What you will need5-7+ years of professional DevOps / infrastructure engineering experienceStrong expertise in Kubernetes (EKS preferred) and HelmProduction experience with Terraform or equivalent IaC (CloudFormation, Pulumi)Deep experience with AWS (ECR, EKS, App Runner, S3, CloudFront, IAM)Proficiency designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred)Track record building observability (logging, metrics, tracing) for distributed systemsNice to haveGitOps (ArgoCD, Flux)MLOps infrastructure (model serving, GPU workloads)Kafka operational managementCost optimization for cloud infrastructurePython/Bash scripting for automationWhat is there for youCompensation: upper-quartile for Greek/EU marketRemote: fully remote within EU, or hybrid from AthensOwnership: first dedicated DevOps hire, define infrastructure standards from day oneAI-native: real infra challenges with LLMs, GPU workloads, and event-driven pipelinesGrowth: budget for conferences/courses/certifications, path to infrastructure leadCulture: engineering-first, low meetings, high autonomy, async-first