Scalors

On behalf of our Client, Scalors is looking for a DevOps Engineer to join a remote team for a full-time position.
 

About Client:
Our Client delivers cutting-edge software solutions for the cruise and hospitality industries, driving efficiency and reliability across mission-critical systems. Our Infrastructure & Edge Operations team ensures that our global platforms run smoothly, securely, and at scale.

Role summary:

• Remote first, work from anywhere, with occasional travel to customer sites or ships as required for onboarding or incident response. Candidate must be available for on call rotations.
• You will own build, release, operations, observability and deployment automation for cloud and shipboard environments.
• You will design and operate secure, resilient networks and runtime platforms that support microservices, event streaming and offline sync for guest facing systems such as POS, gangway, dining and guest services.
• You will be customer facing, and able to translate shipboard constraints into reliable deployment and support practices.
• You will also use AI tools and techniques to design, automate and improve our infrastructure, observability and incident operations.

Core responsibilities:

• CI CD and release automation, design and maintain CI CD pipelines for multi environment deployments, including cloud, shipboard on premise and air gapped scenarios.
• Infrastructure as code, author and maintain Terraform, Ansible or Pulumi templates for cloud and on premise platforms.
• Kubernetes and container platforms, operate and tune Kubernetes clusters in cloud and shipboard edge nodes, manage Helm charts or Kustomize manifests and GitOps flows.
• Shipboard network design and troubleshooting, configure IP networks, VLANs, routing, NAT, port forwarding, DNS, NTP and firewall rules for shipboard deployments, including satellite link and VSAT awareness.
• Edge constraints and offline design, design resilient services for intermittent connectivity, offline first clients, local stores such as SQLite or Couchbase Lite, CRDT or other reconciliation strategies.
• Black box microservice handling, integrate and operate against third party or opaque services using robust contract testing, timeouts and circuit breaker patterns, and observability wrappers to detect failures without requiring changes to the black box.
• Observability and diagnostics, deploy and operate Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Elastic or OpenSearch, Loki and tracing to achieve end to end visibility across cloud and shipboard.
• Messaging and data platforms, operate Kafka and topic management, ensure broker resiliency and correct retention and consumer behavior for shipboard replication scenarios.
• Security and compliance, implement mTLS, certificate lifecycle, Vault secrets management, vulnerability scanning, container image signing, and operate according to PCI and GDPR requirements on payment and guest data flows.
• Hardening and incident response, lead troubleshooting for production incidents, runbooks, on call rotations, post incident reviews and automated rollback strategies.
• Automation and developer enablement, provide tools and templates that enable developers to produce production quality artifacts, and self service infrastructure for test and demo environments.
• Customer engagement, collaborate with customer IT to validate IP designs, test failover scenarios and document network and deployment runbooks.
• Backups and disaster recovery, implement backup and restore for stateful components, test DR in constrained network conditions.
• Cost and capacity planning, monitor capacity, plan cluster sizing and network bandwidth usage, and recommend changes to reduce cost and risk.
• AI driven design and operations, apply AI and machine learning tools to improve infrastructure design, incident management, observability and automation, while maintaining strict security and audit controls.

Required skills and experience:

• 3 plus years operating production cloud and container platforms, or equivalent experience.
• Strong practical knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker and container runtimes.
• Hands on experience with Terraform or other IaC tools, and configuration management such as Ansible.
• Deep understanding of IP networking concepts, VLANs, routing, NAT, DNS, DHCP, bonding and firewall policies, with experience applying these on site in constrained WAN environments.
• Experience operating Kafka, MySQL, Elasticsearch or OpenSearch, Redis or Hazelcast, and understanding replication and retention trade offs.
• Observability and tracing experience, with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or Jaeger, and log pipelines in Elastic or OpenSearch or Loki.
• Strong scripting and automation skills in shell, Python or Go.
• Solid security fundamentals, including TLS, PKI, secrets management, container image security and familiarity with PCI compliance basics.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills, including working in constrained network conditions, and customer facing communication skills.
• Experience with Git based workflows, and at least one CI CD platform such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD or GitHub Actions.
• Practical experience using AI tools and models in production workflows for infrastructure as code, observability summarization and automated runbook generation, including knowledge of model governance, data redaction and secure private deployments.

Your responsibilities
Development

• Own the electronics architecture of the device: processor platform, power supply, sensing, actuation, display, connectivity.
• Circuit design and PCB layout, from concept through to release
• Analogue measurement chains for pressure, temperature and flow sensing — low noise, low drift, calibratable.
• Drive electronics for pumps, valves, heating and cooling elements, including the power stages.
• Build, bring-up and characterisation of prototypes.
• Safety and evidence.
• Electrical safety concept under IEC 60601-1: insulation coordination, creepage and clearance distances, protective earth, single-fault safety.
• EMC-compliant design under IEC 60601-1-2, pre-compliance measurements and support through certification testing.
• Design of an independent hardware protection layer: watchdog, interlocks, pressure and temperature limiting.
• Contribute to risk management under ISO 14971; derive and verify hardware risk control measures.

• Design verification: test planning, execution and documentation as part of the technical file

   

Production readiness

• Design for reprocessing: connectors, sealing concepts and resistance to cleaning and disinfecting agents across the specified service life.
• Design for manufacturing and test: test strategy, production programming, test fixtures.
• Component qualification, second sources, long-term availability and obsolescence management.
• Work with EMS providers, prototype builds and production ramp-up
   

Collaboration

• Work closely with embedded software: platform decisions are made together, not one after the other.
• Interface with mechanical engineering, systems engineering, regulatory affairs and manufacturin.

Required

• Several years in electronics development for complex embedded devices, from schematic to finished layout (7+ as a guide).
• IEC 60601-1 or an equivalent product safety standard (e.g. IEC 61010) — insulation concepts, creepage and clearance, single fault analysis are routine for you, not new ground.
• Solid practice in analogue measurement: sensor front-ends, ADC interfacing, noise, offset and drift, calibration concepts.
• EMC-compliant design in practice — including the experience of analysing and fixing a failed EMC test.
• Confident with a professional EDA tool (Altium, KiCad, Cadence or comparable).
• Lab measurement skills: oscilloscope, spectrum analyser, network analyser, thermography
• Fluent German and English
   

Nice to have

• Medical devices and the associated documentation (design history file, design verification).
• Further parts of the 60601 series, in particular -1-2 (EMC), -1-6 (usability) and -1-8 (alarm systems)
• Mains-side power electronics, switch-mode supplies, isolation barriers, motor drive.
• Signal and power integrity on fast interfaces (DDR, LVDS, Ethernet).
• Modern 32-bit microcontroller platforms and the circuitry around them.
• Thermal design and simulation.
• Experience setting technical direction across distributed or partner teams.

What we explicitly do not require

• Prior experience in our application field. We will teach you the domain.
• Every line of the list above. If three quarters fit and you want to learn the rest, apply.