Platform Engineer DevOps (mfd) | AI GovTech Startup | Munich

Ayunis is a leading GovTech startup from Munich. Over 800 cities and municipalities across the DACH region already work with our software with Ayunis were bringing AI to the public sector: secure compliant and actually useful.

Tasks

You will own how Ayunis runs in production not just keeping services up but the whole package around them: how code gets deployed how secrets are handled how we observe our systems how we get alerted when things go wrong or get slow and how we prove to customers and auditors that their data is safe. This is a builder role not a maintenance role: youll inherit a working but early setup take it to the next maturity level and push good operational patterns into the product code itself working alongside our backend engineers.

Your Responsibilities

• You run our production services (NestJS backend React frontend PostgreSQL Redis MinIO LLM provider integrations) and own uptime backups and restore drills capacity and incident response
• You build an automated deployment pipeline the team loves: fast safe boring releases with rollbacks migration safety and staging environments if deploying is scary or slow thats a bug you own
• You introduce and drive patterns for structured logging metrics and tracing in the infrastructure and in the product code including precise alerting when LLM responses are slow erroring or degrading per provider and per model
• You develop and own a proper secrets management setup (Vault or comparable): encrypted at rest access-controlled rotatable auditable
• You implement the technical controls behind our ISO 27001 and GDPR obligations: encryption of databases and backups key management access logging retention
• You shape our tooling choices: today we run Docker / Docker Compose on dedicated Linux servers (Hetzner) with GitHub Actions and Sentry where it goes next is largely up to you and we prefer boring proven technology over resume-driven engineering

Requirements

• Youre a software engineer at heart who gravitated toward infrastructure comfortable opening a TypeScript codebase and adding a metrics middleware not just writing pipelines around it
• You have experience running production systems end-to-end: deployment monitoring incidents backups and the 3 a.m. question of how would we recover
• Youre security-minded by default: secrets handling least privilege and encryption are instincts not checklist items
• Youre familiar with compliance-driven environments (ISO 27001 SOC 2 or GDPR technical measures) or genuinely interested in making auditors happy without making developers miserable
• Youre opinionated about alerting quality: youve felt alert fatigue and know how to design for signal
• Youre pragmatic about scope: were a small team so you prioritize ruthlessly and communicate whats deferred

Benefits

• Regular team events
• Two free yoga/breathwork sessions per month
• Room to grow in a 30 person startup
• New Munich office with kitchen lounge and 50-meter outdoor pool
• Latest tech equipment
• Real responsibility from day one the platform is yours
• Flat hierarchies and fast decisions
• Meaningful work: modernizing public administration with AI

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