Lead DevOps Engineer (AI)

Location: Fully remote, based in Dubai (UAE) or Eastern Europe

Company

Praktika is an AI-native language-learning company building an automated tutoring experience with generative AI avatars. The company has over 30 million learners, more than 2 million monthly active users, and a distributed team across 4 continents and 15+ countries.

What you will do

• Own the AWS-based infrastructure end to end, including design, implementation, operations, reliability, and performance.
• Manage company-wide identity and access across cloud accounts, vendors, internal tools, onboarding, and offboarding.
• Own infrastructure security, including IAM, networks, secrets, audit logs, and the technical aspects of ISO 27001, SOC 2, and GDPR compliance.
• Run hosting and inference infrastructure for ML and LLM models while controlling costs across clouds and AI vendors.
• Automate recurring operational work, improve observability and incident response, and build secure deployment and monitoring workflows for internal tools and applications.
• Provide delivery teams with service templates, CI/CD, safe deployments, alerts, and other golden paths.

Requirements

• Strong ownership, decision-making, autonomy, and ability to complete work without supervision.
• Deep hands-on production experience with AWS, including containers on ECS.
• Terraform-based infrastructure as code as the standard way of working.
• Solid security fundamentals and genuine interest in infrastructure security.
• Experience building working tools with AI coding agents and using AI in daily work.
• Experience changing how other teams work without formal authority.
• Experience setting technical direction and breaking large projects into deliverable parts.
• Ability to work effectively in an asynchronous, distributed, written-first culture.

Nice to have

• DevSecOps experience and understanding of how attacks work.
• Hands-on experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or GDPR.
• Experience with cloud platforms other than AWS.
• Experience operating infrastructure for ML or LLM inference.
• Experience at an early-stage or high-growth consumer product company.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work from Dubai or Eastern Europe in an asynchronous, distributed, written-first environment.
• Mission-driven, AI-native, data-driven, and user-focused culture with strong ownership and limited meetings.
• Potential scope growth toward Head of Platform.
• Stock options, 26 days of holiday plus bank holidays, and an annual company off-site.
• Health and wellness benefits through SafetyWing, access to AI productivity tools, and a $1,000 annual education and learning budget.

Hiring process

• Introductory interview with the Head of Talent, followed by technical interviews with the CTO.
• Culture interview with a leadership team member and peer interview with an engineer.
• No take-home task; feedback is provided throughout the process.