Senior IT Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer

We are looking for a Senior IT Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer with a strong background in cloud-native architectures, systems administration, and CI/CD automation. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, maintaining, evolving, and operating the infrastructure powering EarthLab’s AI-driven platforms, with a primary focus on our flagship solution, Max-ICS. You will help build secure, scalable, and high-availability environments to support satellite data processing, AI workloads, and big data integration across domains such as defense, environment, and geospatial intelligence. You’ll work closely with software engineers, data scientists, and project managers to ensure efficient system delivery, observability, and lifecycle management. As a senior member of the team, your input will be essential in shaping the future of our infrastructure and DevOps capabilities.

Earthlab Luxembourg (https://www.earthlab.lu/) is an innovative company at the intersection of Earth observation and artificial intelligence. Our proprietary Max-ICS platform facilitates seamless Earth Observation (EO) data integration, advanced EO data processing, and continuous AI model training, bridging the gap between raw satellite data and actionable insights.

The candidate must be eligible for EU security clearance.

What is expected from you:

• Take ownership of EarthLab’s existing IT infrastructure while actively driving its evolution toward a more modern, reliable, secure, and scalable architecture.
• Administer and maintain Linux environments, on-premise servers in the data center, networking, storage, virtualization platforms, containers, monitoring tools, backup processes, and technical documentation.
• Support the infrastructure behind Max-ICS and EarthLab’s AI / satellite-data processing workloads, ensuring stability today while preparing the platform for future growth.
• Identify infrastructure risks, bottlenecks, obsolete components, and operational gaps, then propose and implement concrete improvement plans.
• Contribute to infrastructure modernization projects, including progressive migration toward cloud or hybrid-cloud architectures where relevant.
• Improve automation, deployment, monitoring, backup, security, and configuration management practices across the platform.
• Implement, maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines and deployment tools, integrating DevSecOps practices to support faster, safer, traceable, and more reliable software delivery.
• Collaborate with technical leader and development teams to define infrastructure priorities, execute technical improvement projects, and align architecture decisions with business constraints.
• Create and maintain clear technical documentation to support knowledge transfer, operational continuity, and future infrastructure evolution.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues across teams, keeping them informed about infrastructure changes, incidents, risks, and planned improvements.

What you offer:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field (Master's degree preferred).
• 3+ years of experience in IT infrastructure management and DevOps engineering.   
• Deep knowledge of Linux system administration, networking, and storage management.
• Strong knowledge of cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), infrastructure as code tools (Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet) and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash).
• Mastery of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab,).  
• Experience with virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V) and containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Mesos & Marathon, Kubernetes).
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• Fluent in English, and French is an asset.

Technical Skills:

• Linux system administration
• Networking and storage fundamentals
• On-premise / data center infrastructure experience
• CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI or Jenkins
• Docker and application packaging
• Bash and/or Python scripting
• Log analysis and troubleshooting
• Infrastructure automation, ideally Ansible or Terraform

Nice to have:

• Kubernetes or Mesos/Marathon
• VMware or Hyper-V
• AWS, Azure, or GCP
• DevSecOps practices
• AI, big data, or satellite-data platform experience
• Experience in security-sensitive environments
  

Soft skills:

• Excellent communication
• teamwork skills
• Autonomous
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ownership

What we offer:

• Join a dynamic and innovative team within a fast-growing company.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of innovative AI platform: http://www-max-ics.earthlab.lu/
• Work in a stimulating and collaborative work environment.
• Enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package.

Location:

You will be working in Luxemburg https://www.earthlab.lu/

When:

Expected starting date: ASAP

Please note that interviews will be held either via Teams, , other digital platforms or onsite in person.