Sourcing Criteria and Requirements for Senior Engineer - Infrastructure / DevOps

Must Haves

Extensive experience (8+ years) in Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, or SRE
Proven track record building and managing production infrastructure from the ground up
Deep expertise in Kubernetes in production at scale (beyond managed cloud services)
Strong cloud infrastructure knowledge (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
Infrastructure as Code proficiency (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or similar)
Experience with GPU cluster management (NVIDIA H100 or equivalent) in production
Experience with air-gapped, on-premises, or sovereign deployment environments
Strong automation mindset with a focus on scalability, security, and operational resilience
Experience designing secure, scalable production environments for enterprise or government clients
Strong incident response discipline: SLOs, runbooks, post-mortems
Platform reliability and operational resilience expertise
Ability to work independently in a growing technology business

Background in cybersecurity, enterprise SaaS, defence technology, or other highly regulated environments
Experience with InfiniBand networking and NVIDIA NVLink topology
Prior leadership or mentoring experience of infrastructure/platform teams
Familiarity with FIPS-compliant and HSM-protected environments

Candidates should demonstrate an engineering mindset prioritising reliability, scalability, and automation rather than traditional sysadmin roles
Search should include varied titles such as Senior DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Architect
Experience supporting software engineering teams is important

Role supports sovereign, intelligence-led AI systems in complex, high-security environments
Infrastructure stability, security and scalability are fundamental to Elile's products
Responsible for infrastructure underpinning AI and intelligence platforms rather than AI model development itself