Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- IT, DevOps
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Full Remote
Job Summary
In this role, you will take ownership of platform and release-engineering systems, design scalable infrastructure in GCP, and enhance processes for continuous delivery and CI/CD management.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- We're looking for a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer for CipherScale's AI-native platform to take independent ownership of the platform and release-engineering systems behind our continuous delivery model.
- You'll own the infrastructure, automation, and controls that govern how software is built, integrated, validated, and released.
- Your initial focus will be on strengthening trunk-integration safety, introducing robust release gates, isolating build and QA environments, and improving confidence across the entire delivery lifecycle.
- This is not a ticket-execution role.
- You will set the direction for the platform and release engineering surface, establish the standards behind it, and work directly with engineers to remove delivery bottlenecks.
- You will be expected to identify foundational gaps, design pragmatic solutions, and lead them through implementation, adoption, and operation.
- We are an AI-native engineering organization.
- AI agents and tooling perform a meaningful share of the implementation and operational work, and fluency with this way of working is essential.
- You will use AI to design systems, build automation, investigate failures, accelerate delivery, and continuously improve the platform.
- Own the strategy, architecture, and operation of our platform and release-engineering systems.
- Design and maintain scalable infrastructure using GCP, Cloud Run, infrastructure as code, and managed cloud services.
- Own CI across a six-repository cluster, ensuring changes can be built, tested, integrated, and released safely at high velocity.
- Build and operate the platform gates governing trunk integration, merge readiness, regression testing, and production releases.
- Implement and maintain merge queues, GitHub rulesets, branch protections, required checks, and repository-level delivery policies.
- Design isolated, reproducible review, build, integration, and QA environments.
- Build release automation that supports progressive delivery, controlled rollouts, rapid rollback, and clear promotion criteria.
- Improve build performance, test reliability, caching, dependency management, and CI resource efficiency.
- Establish release observability, including deployment status, pipeline health, failure diagnostics, lead time, and change-failure metrics.
- Create clear release-gating policies that balance delivery speed with product stability.
- Partner with engineers to improve testability, deployment safety, and operational readiness.
- Reduce manual intervention throughout the build, integration, and release lifecycle.
- Investigate CI, environment, and release failures, lead root-cause analysis, and implement lasting corrective actions.
- Apply secure-by-default practices to credentials, permissions, artefacts, dependencies, environments, and deployment workflows.
- Define platform standards and documentation that improve developer autonomy and onboarding.
- Use AI agents and AI-enabled engineering tools to build, operate, troubleshoot, and continuously improve platform systems.
- Evaluate emerging AI-native approaches to release engineering, infrastructure management, testing, and operational automation.
- Your initial mandate will be to take ownership of the platform gates and release pipeline, including establishing a reliable merge queue and trunk-integration model, defining integration and regression gates across the repository cluster, introducing isolated review and QA environments, strengthening GitHub rulesets, branch protection, and required-check policies, creating a consistent, automated release pipeline, implementing progressive delivery and rollback mechanisms, improving visibility into build, integration, and release health, and prioritising and delivering the existing backlog of foundational platform work.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Starkes Wissen über GitHub-Regelsets, Branch-Schutz, erforderliche Checks, Merge-Queues und git-basierte Delivery-Workflows.
- Starkes Verständnis von Build-Pipelines, Test-Orchestrierung, Artefaktmanagement, Environment-Promotion und Rollback-Strategien.
- Starkes Wissen in Infrastructure as Code und automatisierter Cloud-Bereitstellung.
- Solid understanding of Linux, containers, networking, IAM, secrets management, and cloud security fundamentals.
- Ability to diagnose complex failures across source control, CI systems, cloud infrastructure, applications, and test environments.
- Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language, such as Python, Bash, Go, or TypeScript.
- Strong written communication and the ability to define technical standards, explain trade-offs, and drive adoption.
- Ability to work effectively with a Europe-based distributed team.
- AI-native fluency is a non-negotiable requirement for this role.
- You should be comfortable using AI agents and tooling as part of your normal engineering workflow—not as an occasional assistant, but as a core part of how you deliver work.
- This includes using AI to design and evaluate platform architectures, generate, review, and improve infrastructure and pipeline code, build internal tooling and release automation, investigate CI failures and production issues, analyse logs, tests, deployments, and operational signals, create and maintain documentation, automate repetitive engineering and operational tasks, coordinate complex changes across multiple repositories, and increase the speed and scope of your individual contribution.
- You will also help establish effective patterns for how AI agents interact with our repositories, delivery systems, environments, and operational workflows.
Experience
- 6+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Release Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure Engineering, or a closely related role.
- Demonstrated experience independently owning a platform or release-engineering function.
- Strong production experience with Google Cloud Platform, particularly Cloud Run and related managed services.
- Deep experience designing and operating CI/CD systems using GitHub Actions.
- Experience operating CI at scale across multiple repositories, services, or interdependent components.
- Proven experience building release automation and progressive-delivery workflows.
- Experience designing safe trunk-based development and continuous-delivery systems.
- Experience creating isolated preview, review, integration, or QA environments.
- Experience in enhancing CI reliability, performance, reproducibility, and cost efficiency.
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What we offer
- This will be a permanent employment opportunity for candidates based in Spain.
- For other locations, it will be a B2B contract.
- Competitive pay rates.
- Fully remote work environments.
- Self-managed time off.
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.
- A senior ownership role with responsibility for a critical engineering surface.
- The autonomy to define platform strategy, standards, and technical direction.
- The opportunity to build foundational systems with immediate, measurable impact.
- A fast-moving, AI-native engineering environment.
- Direct collaboration with technical leadership and product engineers.
- Support to experiment, automate, and introduce better ways of working.
- A culture that values speed, ownership, sound judgement, and reliable delivery.
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OpenVPN
OpenVPN Inc. is a renowned company based in Boston, USA, specializing in the development and distribution of VPN software and solutions. The company provides secure virtual private networks for businesses and remote work, emphasizing customizable security solutions for network access.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Full Remote
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Full Remote
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
