Lead DevOps / Platform Engineer – Freelance

Project overview

Context

Our client is an international startup that provides a data and AI platform for major European fleet management and leasing players.

To support its growth, the team is looking for its Lead DevOps, who will become the owner of the production infrastructure.

Your missions

On-call

On-call is an integral part of the role and is structured:

• Take over the existing setup. You will take charge of a stable production infrastructure, currently managed by an engineer based in the US, who will remain as backup. You will learn it, document it, and become the main point of contact, supported by the manager based in France.
• Guarantee the platform's availability, including during critical incidents (see on-call section).
• Build an "internal PaaS". You will standardize deployments in GitOps and implement self-service for development teams, so that a new service can be launched in minutes, without a ticket.
• Drive enterprise security and compliance: SOC2 controls, pentest remediation, firewalls, IAM, security requirements for large enterprise clients.
• Support data and AI workloads: data pipelines, query engines, object storage, self-hosted LLM inference.
• Sev1 incidents only (production down or critical client impact). Everything else waits for business hours.
• From 7 AM to 8 PM Paris time, as the platform only serves European clients. No interventions at night.
• The platform is stable: recent rare incidents were due to faulty deployments and were resolved by rollback.
• Time spent outside of business hours is compensated during normal working hours.
• Compensation is on a daily rate basis only.

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Bordeaux, France, FR
• Rate: 60-60 EUR/h
• Languages: French