DevOps Architect

About the Position

Curiosity Studio connects data from different company systems into one searchable graph, with search and AI on top. It helps teams build applications and tools around their own data. We’re looking for a DevOps Architect to design and deploy the infrastructure that runs production AI applications on Curiosity, ensuring reliability and performance. This role is hands-on, customer-facing, and based in Toulouse, France.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy infrastructure: Set up and configure environments for Curiosity, including compute, networking, storage, access controls, and related services. This can be on AWS, Google Cloud, or a customer’s own data center.
• Own production operations: Monitor systems, investigate incidents, manage upgrades and security patches, and ensure backups and recovery procedures are effective.
• Plan for performance and scale: Size infrastructure, identify bottlenecks, and improve the reliability and performance of resource-intensive AI workloads.
• Work with customer IT teams: Understand their architecture, security requirements, and constraints, and turn them into practical deployment solutions.
• Build on Curiosity Studio: Collaborate with forward deployed engineers to integrate data sources, develop connectors, build APIs, and contribute to applications and AI workflows running in production.
• Get hands-on with data and code: Investigate data issues, write scripts and services, debug application behavior, and resolve problems across the stack.
• Lead technical delivery: Help scope projects, plan implementation, communicate progress, and take solutions from initial discussions to production.
• Make deployments repeatable: Automate infrastructure and operational tasks, document decisions, and write runbooks to make systems easier to maintain.
• Improve the product: Feed customer requirements and lessons from deployments back into Curiosity’s own code and engineering practices.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience operating production systems, on a major cloud provider or on-premises.
• Strong knowledge of cloud compute and networking, including VPCs, subnets, routing, firewalls, security groups, IAM, and private connectivity.
• Experience troubleshooting production issues and understanding performance, availability, and resource constraints.
• Experience with Linux, Docker, monitoring, and infrastructure automation. Terraform or similar tools are a plus.
• A solid software engineering foundation: you can write, test, debug, and maintain code, not just configure infrastructure.
• Familiarity with APIs, databases, and data integration. C# experience is a plus, but strong development experience in another language is also valuable.
• An understanding of stateful applications, capacity planning, backups, and disaster recovery.
• Experience working directly with customers, users, or other technical teams to turn requirements into working solutions.
• The ability to explain technical decisions clearly, manage expectations, and take ownership of delivery.
• Fluent French and English, both written and spoken.

We Offer

• A full-time permanent contract (CDI).
• The opportunity to run production AI systems for large industrial and regulated customers.
• A varied role spanning cloud and on-premises infrastructure, software engineering, architecture, and customer delivery.
• Direct collaboration with the engineers building Curiosity.
• Ownership of projects from initial design through deployment and production handover.
• The opportunity to solve challenging infrastructure and data problems rather than work on isolated tickets.
• Paid leave and health insurance (mutuelle).
• Support with your visa application in France.

About the Company

Curiosity is a bootstrapped, engineering-led software company based in Munich. We build Curiosity Studio, a platform that connects information from different company systems into a unified graph, preserves existing permissions, and enables search, applications, dashboards, and AI agents. Our customers include large industrial and regulated companies, among them Airbus. We work in environments where security, performance, and reliability matter, and where solutions must fit into existing IT systems.

How We Hire

1. Get to know: A 30-minute call to get to know each other.
2. Technical interview: A conversation about how you build and run software.
3. Final interview: With the founders.

Location

Toulouse, France · On-site

Employment

Full-time

Contract

Permanent (CDI)

Start

As soon as possible

Languages

French and English

Apply

Send your CV with the role in the subject to [email protected].