Senior Systems Engineer – Business Applications - KI (m/w/d)
Core
Senior Systems Engineer responsible for building, operating, and optimizing complex business application environments and AI/LLM services for the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr).
Role type
Senior Systems Engineer (Business Applications & AI Infrastructure)
Builds
Stable, secure, and efficient IT services including containerized business applications and self-hosted LLMs on Kubernetes.
Domain
Defense / IT Infrastructure / Cloud-Native / AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Kubernetes, Cloud-native platforms, Microservices deployment, Container orchestration, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Ansible), GitOps, Monitoring/Logging/Alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Instana), Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Debian), Web servers (Apache, NGINX), Databases (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL), Helm Charts, Kustomize, k8s-operators, TCP/IP networking, Security risk management, ITIL basics.
Preferred skills
VMware ARIA experience, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) integration.
Responsibilities
Provide 2nd Level Support for LAMP platforms, automate platform component deployment via CI/CD, create and test container builds, maintain search engine infrastructure and internal AI search (RAG), operate self-hosted LLMs on Kubernetes, troubleshoot incidents, identify and mitigate security risks, develop training concepts, and maintain technical documentation.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC