DevOps / Platform Engineer

**About the role** Most roles ask you to improve what is already there. This one invites you to help build what comes next. Alpha Hub, a subsidiary of Konzortia Capital, is building an AI-driven SaaS marketplace for private capital. You’ll own the Azure platform from development through production, helping product engineers ship safely as Alpha Hub moves from product validation into investor pilots and enterprise onboarding. **The initial six-month term is compensated through common shares issued monthly in lieu of cash salary, based on a company valuation of $26 million**. After six months, there may be an opportunity to transition to a compensation structure that includes salary, bonus, and equity, subject to performance, company needs, and successful fundraising.This transition is not guaranteed. **We understand that's not a conventional arrangement, and it won't be the right fit for everyone.** We're looking for people who value ownership, impact, and the opportunity to help shape a company from an early stage. If you're considering the role, we encourage you to review the materials linked in the career site and reach out if you have any questions.** . **What you'll do** * Design and operate Azure development, staging, and production environments. Own virtual networks, routing, load balancing, compute, and storage for APIs, AI services, and data pipelines. * Provision isolated, reproducible environments with infrastructure as code, including appropriate separation of production and non-production data, access, and services. Automate routine work such as credential rotation and service configuration. * Build CI/CD pipelines for frontend, backend, and AI workloads. Standardize automated tests, artifact versioning, security gates, health checks, and rollbacks. * Operate and maintain platform data services, including Cosmos DB for MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Valkey, Blob Storage, and Storage Queues. Partner with developers to improve performance, capacity, and reliable background processing. * Define and test backup, restore, and disaster recovery procedures for critical data and services, with agreed recovery objectives and documented runbooks. * Own infrastructure lifecycle management, including Kubernetes and node-image upgrades, container patching, infrastructure dependency maintenance, and vulnerability remediation. * Standardize Docker workflows and operate containerized services on AKS. Own capacity planning, scaling, resource limits, and cloud cost monitoring to balance reliability, performance, and spend. * Set up metrics, centralized logging, tracing, and actionable alerts. Lead incident response and follow-up reviews. * Manage least-privilege access, encryption, secrets, and network segmentation. Support SOC 2 and GDPR readiness and enterprise security reviews. * Own DNS, TLS certificates, ingress, and traffic controls for customer-facing endpoints and external integrations. * Give frontend, backend, and AI engineers reusable service templates with deployment, monitoring, and security built in. **What we're looking for** * Minimum of 5 years in DevOps, infrastructure, or platform engineering, with hands-on ownership of production SaaS workloads. * Hands-on experience operating production Kubernetes workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), plus Azure networking, storage, and identity and access management. * Experience operating MongoDB-compatible databases and Elasticsearch, including backup, recovery, performance tuning, and capacity planning; familiarity with Redis-compatible caching such as Valkey. * Familiarity with Azure Container Registry, Azure Key Vault, Blob Storage, and Storage Queues. * Experience with Azure DevOps pipelines, infrastructure as code using Terraform or Bicep, and automation in Python or Bash. * Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems using metrics, logs, and traces and design releases with health checks and safe rollbacks. * Experience hardening an early-stage SaaS platform for production or supporting AI and data workloads is an asset. **Behind every application is a person—and behind our hiring process are people, too, not AI filter! **Due to the high volume of applications, our team cannot respond individually to everyone. We will contact only candidates whose experience and skills closely match the role. Only applications submitted through our careers site will be reviewed and considered. Please do not contact team members via LinkedIn to submit an application or request updates. Thank you for your interest in joining Alpha Hub! Apply here: https://alpha-hub-konzortia.atlassian.net/jira/core/form/ded7aa67-3597-40ee-af6c-d0e40d31f8a4