Key skills
KubernetesTerraformCI/CDGoPythonDockergRPCObservabilityEnglish communicationJavaAIMLGitLab CIKeycloakPrometheusGrafanaGitLabCommunication
About this role
Bespoke Labs is a VC-backed company founded by IIT & Ivy League leaders, and they are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer for a freelance role. The position involves designing and documenting real-world DevOps scenarios to train next-generation AI systems.
Responsibilities:
- Capture real DevOps + backend incidents and convert them into benchmark tasks
- Contribute to secure, scalable, Kubernetes-native architectures
- Work across CI/CD, observability, identity, infrastructure-as-code, and backend services
- Collaborate with our team to build realistic engineering workflows
Requirements:
- Strong hands-on experience in DevOps and/or Backend Engineering, including Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, k9s, k3s (GitLab CI preferred)
- Go / Python / Java, Docker, gRPC, Kubernetes-native services
- Experience with secure, offline/air-gapped deployments (big plus)
- Familiarity with at least five of the following: Identity & Access Management, Observability (Prometheus + Grafana), CI/CD Pipelines, Keycloak, GitLab CI, Terraform OSS, Kubernetes tools & ecosystem
- Strong English communication skills, both verbal and written
- ML/Distributed pipelines (nice to have)