Principal DevOps Engineer for Industrial AI Cloud (m/f/d)

About the Position

NVIDIA and Deutsche Telekom are jointly developing an industrial AI cloud for Europe. This AI factory in Germany will host 10,000 GPUs across NVIDIA DGX B200 systems and RTX Pro Servers. Deutsche Telekom provides secure, sovereign, and fast infrastructure, including data centers, operations, security, and AI solutions.

As a Principal DevOps Engineer, you will guide enterprise customers through onboarding, training, and early adoption of the AI platform. Your responsibility includes understanding customer requirements, supporting solution design, executing Proofs of Concept (PoCs), and ensuring smooth integration of customer workloads (LLMs, GPU compute, AI pipelines). You act as a trusted technical advisor, helping customers efficiently use their GPU clusters and AI toolchains.

Responsibilities

• Consult customers on all technical aspects related to GPU infrastructure and platform usage.
• Lead onboarding and training, mentoring customer specialists on optimal usage of their GPU clusters and AI environments.
• Design and implement PoCs, including environment setup, data processing pipelines, and deployment workflows.
• Conduct requirement engineering, translating business needs into technical specifications.
• Assist customers with performance optimization, troubleshooting, fine-tuning, and validation of delivered solutions.
• Act as the key technical point of contact, coordinating cross-functional teams across infrastructure, networking, automation, security, and AI services.
• Propose and develop automation concepts to improve services, processes, and operating models.
• Ensure best practices in reliability, scalability, and security are applied across the customer lifecycle.
• Support monitoring, observability, and capacity planning for AI workloads and GPU utilization.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in the design and delivery of systems based on IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
• Experience with GPU-based infrastructure.
• Solid knowledge of Kubernetes container-based technologies.
• Expert knowledge of scripting languages (Python/Bash).
• Expert knowledge of Automation tools and automation deployments (Ansible/Salt-stack/Terraform/Helm).
• Expert knowledge of CI/CD in a Kubernetes environment and repository management.
• Expert in automation with Git (GitHub, GitLab) and CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD.
• Strong experience with Linux OS.
• Experience with monitoring and visualization tools (Grafana, Prometheus,...).
• Speak English at B2 level (German is an advantage).

Nice to Have

• Good communication skills, analytical thinking, team cooperation, presentation skills, negotiation skills.
• Project Management - Basic.
• Leadership skills - Basic.
• Quality management - Intermediate.

We Offer

Work environment & flexibility

• International, dynamic, and collaborative environment.
• T-Social: social initiatives (sports, community, health,...).
• Hybrid work model (remote/on-site).
• Flexible working hours.

Growth & development

• Customized training: access to Coursera to learn whatever you want, whenever you want.
• Weekly language classes (English, Spanish & German).
• International Mentoring Sessions & Experience Days.

Compensation & benefits

• Flexible compensation plan (health insurance, meal vouchers, childcare, transport).
• Telemedicine.
• Life and accident insurance.
• Social fund.

Wellbeing & time off

• 26+ working days of vacation per year.
• Free access to specialist services (medical, legal, wellness).
• 100% salary coverage during medical leave.

And many more advantages of being part of T-Systems!

About the Company

T-Systems is part of the Deutsche Telekom Group, with around 30,000 employees worldwide. We create technology with purpose to generate a positive impact on society. We are looking for curious talent, eager to learn, take on challenges, and contribute ideas that transform our customers’ experience.

We trust people: we offer autonomy, continuous support, and a collaborative environment where you can grow without limits. We are one global team, guided by respect, integrity, and a passion for doing better every day.

If you are looking for a new challenge, do not hesitate to send us your CV! Please send CV in English. Join our team!

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