# Lead DevOps Engineer [Praktika](https://gurify.com/jobs?q=Praktika) · Dubai · Posted yesterday Lead [DevOps](https://gurify.com/jobs/devops) [Apply on the original posting → (opens in a new tab)](https://praktika.teamtailor.com/jobs/8705195-lead-devops-engineer) ## Job description We are hiring for this position to be based in Dubai (UAE) or Eastern Europe. Praktika is an AI-native education company on a mission to deliver efficient, engaging language learning to billions of people worldwide. We're bridging the gap between traditional learning apps and human tutors through a fully automated tutorship experience powered by generative AI avatars. Since launching our mobile apps in 2023, we've reached over 30 million learners and grown to over 2 million monthly active users, become one of the world's top-4 learning apps, and recently closed a $30M Series A to accelerate our roadmap. We're a fully distributed team of ~50 people across 4 continents and 15+ countries, working asynchronously to ship fast and operate at a high bar. We're hiring a Lead DevOps Engineer to own all of Praktika's infrastructure and all access to it. This is a hands-on role with real leadership: you'll set the direction for our infrastructure, build it, run it, and keep it secure, reliable, cost-efficient and fast as we grow. You'll work with every engineering team and with non-engineering teams too. We are rebuilding how the company works around AI, and infrastructure is where that has to be made safe. ### What you'll do - Own the infrastructure end to end: design, build and run our AWS-based infrastructure, and be the owner when it fails. - Own identity and access for the whole company: cloud accounts, vendors, internal tools, onboarding and offboarding. - Own infrastructure security (IAM, networks, secrets, audit logs) and the technical part of compliance: ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR. - Keep costs visible and under control across clouds and AI vendors. - Run the hosting and inference infrastructure for our ML and LLM models. - Close repeated operational requests with automation and self-service, not with tickets and manual console changes. - Rebuild infrastructure processes around AI: code review, monitoring and observability, alert triage, incident investigation. - Build the place where internal tools and apps, built with AI by engineers and non-engineers, are deployed safely, reviewed and monitored. Build your own tools with AI too. - Give delivery teams golden paths (service templates, CI/CD, safe deploys, alerts) that make the standard way the easy way, without blocking teams. ### What we're looking for We're looking for outstanding engineers who thrive in a challenging environment, bring a growth mindset, and operate with a high degree of agency, devotion, and autonomy. ### Required - Ownership mindset: you make decisions and finish work without supervision. - Deep hands-on AWS experience in production, including containers on ECS. - Infrastructure as code (Terraform) as your normal way of working. - A solid security foundation and a real interest in security. - You have already built working tools with AI coding agents, and you use AI in your daily work. - You have changed how other teams work without formal authority over them. - You have set a technical direction and split large projects into deliverable parts. - Ability to thrive in an async, distributed, written-first culture. ### Bonus - DevSecOps experience and an understanding of how attacks work. - Hands-on work on SOC 2, ISO 27001 or GDPR. - Experience with clouds other than AWS. - Experience with infrastructure for ML / LLM inference. - Prior experience at an early-stage or high-growth consumer product company. ### Our stack AWS (containers, serverless, managed databases, CDN), Terraform, GitHub Actions, Datadog, SQL and NoSQL databases, event streaming, a data warehouse, hosted ML / LLM inference, and others. ### How we work - Mission-driven: we're building the #1 language learning app and competing to win. - AI-native: AI isn't a feature; it's how we think, build, and scale. - Extreme ownership: every project has a clear owner who drives it to success. - Less meetings, more outputs: async first; meetings are a last resort. - Speed & excellence: move fast without compromising quality. - Truly all-in: impactful work, full commitment, real rewards. - Data-driven: decisions are based on evidence, not opinion. - User-obsessed: if it doesn't improve the learner experience, it doesn't matter. ### What we offer - Room to grow: as you prove yourself, your scope can grow to Head of Platform (backend team). - Equity that grows with your impact (stock options). - 26 days of holiday plus bank holidays (34 days per year total). - Annual company off-site (last year: Dubai). - Health and wellness benefits via SafetyWing. - Full AI toolkit access: Claude, Cursor, Codex, and other productivity tools. - $1,000 annual education and learning budget. - Fully remote, based in Dubai or Eastern Europe. ### Interview Process: - Intro interview with our Head of Talent. - Technical interviews with our CTO. - Culture interview with a member of the leadership team. - Peer interview with an engineer from the team. No take-home task. We will provide you with feedback throughout the interview process. **Live in Praktika’s hiring system.** Read from the company's own applicant tracking system, not reposted from a job board — so it's a real, open requisition rather than an ad that outlived the role. 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