Technical Lead - DevOps (Perm, Italy, Remote)

This is a permanent full time remote opportunity for those based in Italy.

About Nearform

Nearform is an independent team of data & AI experts, engineers, and designers who build intelligent digital solutions and capability at pace. We create AI-enabled solutions that enhance digital experiences, empower developers, and deliver measurable results. In these ways, we partner with ambitious enterprises to deliver enduring impact.

Our deep expertise in solving the world’s most complex digital problems, along with our collaborative, people-first approach, enables enterprises to build breakthrough products and modernise legacy systems by unleashing the power of AI.

Today, our team of 500 experts in 20+ countries is trusted by leading enterprises including Lululemon, Puma, Sun Life, Starbucks, Travelex, Virgin Media 02, and Walmart.  

As part of our Engineering function, you will work closely with clients to translate complex business requirements into innovative digital products. 

Whether you are a Senior Engineer, Tech Lead, or DevOps Engineer, you will collaborate with distributed teams, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to build secure, high-performance applications. Our Nearform engineers are known for building high quality, scalable solutions that solve real world problems.

About the Technical Lead Role:

As a Technical Lead at Nearform, you will be responsible for leading and guiding engineering teams while working directly with clients to translate business and technical requirements into impactful applications. However, as you’ll likely work on a variety of projects in your time here, your responsibilities may also include:

• Provide technical and line-management leadership to your development team.
• Take responsibility for the successful delivery of projects.
• Identify and resolve blockers before they become issues.
• Ensure best practices in DevOps, software development and agile methodologies are upheld within the team.
• Work directly with clients, translating requirements into technical briefs.
• Shape and define architectural decisions ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Provide updates to client and Nearform leadership to ensure clear understanding of project status and drive good decision-making.

What we are looking for in this person:

• Significant experience leading projects and mentoring as a Technical Lead. 
• Experience working directly with clients or customers to understand technical requirements.
• Working knowledge of cloud deployment models  
• Familiarity with security frameworks (e.g., NIST, OWASP, PCI DSS) and risk management methodologies 
• Strong technical knowledge and understanding of web application security, in particular DevOps and SDLC  
• Strong programming skills in Python 
• Expertise with SQL databases, particularly PostgreSQL or cloud equivalent such as Amazon RDS 
• Experience utilizing LLMs and prompt engineering 
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline setup and management 
• Familiarity in using AWS cloud platform for deploying and managing applications, particularly AWS ECS 
• Familiarity with GitHub for version control and code collaboration. 
• Knowledge of containerisation
• Deep understanding of agile ways of working, best practices and design patterns.
• Deep understanding of version control tools, e.g. Git.
• Understanding of DevOps practices and cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Understanding of operational concerns (such as monitoring, performance testing, security considerations, accessibility, GDPR)

Benefits & Perks:

• Annual Company Bonus - We all help Nearform to hit company goals so we all receive a share of the profits on an annual basis in line with company performance. 
• Work Remotely and Flexibly - We have a genuine dedication to work/life balance. Our flexible working culture allows you to work around what matters - school run, no problem! 
• Paid Time Off Package - We offer an annual leave of 28 days plus public holidays. 
• Remote Working Allowance - Every 2 years, you will have a budget of up to €1250 to help you set up a comfortable and productive workspace in addition to your essential equipment provided by Nearform when you join.
• Training and Development  - Nearform is committed to supporting and investing in employees’ ongoing learning and professional development. You will be encouraged to pursue relevant learning opportunities that support your growth and the growth of others, subject to manager approval.
• Healthcare - Health insurance is provided for under the applicable national collective labor agreement (CCNL) and may be through the Fondo Est or QuAS.
• Pension & Insurances - We provide statutory pension and access to a collective complementary pension scheme (CCNL-based, with employer contribution up to 1.55%), plus Death in Service cover.

Our Interview Process

Talent Call (30 mins via Zoom)
An initial conversation with a member of our Talent Team to explore your background, leadership experience, and career goals. We’ll provide an overview of Nearform, discuss potential alignment, and answer any questions you may have. This step helps us assess initial alignment.

Technical Lead Assessment (90 mins, Zoom)
A structured assessment led by a senior Technical Lead or Head of Engineering, designed to evaluate key aspects of a Technical Lead role. This session includes a selection of tasks to cover:

Architecture Design – We want to see how you approach a high level problem, demonstrating your design thinking and decision-making process.
Technical Implementation – How do you turn a design into reality, taking into account business needs?
Code Standards and Feedback – We want to see not just your own skills, but also how you improve those around you

Panel Interview (60 mins via Zoom)
A conversation with two Hiring Managers focused on your approach to teamwork, client collaboration, and problem-solving in an enterprise development setting. We'll also share more details about Nearform and the potential projects you may join.

There may also be an additional interview with the client depending on the project. 

Ready to Join Us?

If you're passionate about building high-quality applications, solving complex challenges, and driving innovation in enterprise development, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now via our careers page at Nearform and be part of a team that values technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Nearform is committed to shaping a better world in all that we do. Our global team is built based on respect, inclusivity, diversity and excellence. 

If you require any adjustments to the interview process as part of your application, please let someone from our Talent Team know so they can help.  

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer with deep experience in AI/ML to join the Notebooks team. Datadog Notebooks provide a flexible tool for ad-hoc data analysis, collaborative investigations, and technical documentation. Its fluidity makes it an ideal surface for agents and humans to interact. The Notebook team is building AI-driven workflows for natural-language data analysis, assisted graph generation, automated investigations, and more. You will act as a technical leader in this domain, focused on building industry-leader AI-powered features. We’re looking for a product-minded ML engineer with strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and a track record of driving impactful initiatives end to end.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Spearhead AI initiatives within Notebooks, serving as the technical owner for the design, development, and deployment of ML/AI-driven features.
• Shape the long-term technical direction and strategy for AI workflows within Notebooks and related products.
• Champion the full development cycle: from rapid prototyping and defining success metrics/evaluations to running experiments, iterating, and achieving production-ready scale and reliability.
• Drive product direction with a strong user focus, always advocating for the best end-user experience.
• Coordinate with other leaders and product teams interested in leveraging Notebooks in their AI-powered workflows.
• Develop robust agent systems, including tools, retrieval and planning strategies, guardrails, prompt management/evaluations, fallbacks, and human-in-the-loop processes.
• Stay up to date with industry trends, guiding the adoption of new technologies and evolving best-practices.

Who You Are:

• You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience, as well as experience acting as a technical lead
• Proven track record of leading large-scale AI/ML initiatives in a product-driven environment
• You have significant experience in model deployment, development, training, fine-tuning, and evaluation
• You are passionate about mentoring others and cultivating a high-performing engineering culture.
• You’re excited about leveraging AI tools to enhance how you code, solve problems, and build

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth:

• Generous and competitive benefits package
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
• Employee-focused best in class onboarding
• Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
  
  

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

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The Team:

You’ll join the Value Engineering team, a highly technical, strategic, customer-facing group that sits at the intersection of pre-sales, analytics, and transformation consulting. Value Engineers at Celonis are hands-on practitioners. They combine strong technical capability with consulting and stakeholder skills to guide customers through the full value journey — from first demo to long-term adoption and expansion.

The Role:

As an Applied AI Engineer (Pre-Sales) you are pushing the envelope in solving business-critical problems for our customers. You will be working with our most strategic customers, understanding their objectives and key challenges, and building Celonis solutions using the world’s leading Process Intelligence (PI) platform in combination with the largest AI and ML technology partners, such as Microsoft, OpenAI and Databricks. With Celonis’ Process Intelligence (PI) platform we feed operational context to AI so it understands our customers’ business and enables them to industrialize AI unlocking real ROI on AI deployments and at scale. There is no AI without PI. You will prototype these solutions, demonstrate their value to Executives and ensure successful implementation, adoption and value realization in order to increase the footprint of Celonis at those customers.

The work you’ll do:

• AI Discovery & Solutioning: Understand customers AI strategy and business critical challenges. As Celonis product & domain expert, find the best problem-solution fit and translate customer requirements into innovative solutions that move the needle
• Hackathons & Prototyping: Think out of the box, have a „can-do“ attitude and don’t shy away from complex problems. Leverage cutting edge AI technologies to rapidly build creative prototypes in customer hackathons solving business critical problems
• Agentic Process Transformation: Support our customers in achieving real ROI out of AI deployments at scale enabling a fundamental shift in business operations from traditional, rule-based automation to the use of autonomous AI agents empowered by our Celonis Process Intelligence Platform
• Proof projects: End-to-end execution of business-critical Proof-of-Value projects, incl. architecture and deliver secure, scalable LLM/agent systems with RAG, tools, and guardrails; integrating with enterprise data, identity, and compliance frameworks.
• Ensure Successful Project Outcome: Applied AI Engineers stay involved with projects until agreed value & adoption thresholds are reached
• Specialize in Domains or Industries: To scale knowledge across the organization Applied AI Engineers specialize in domains (e.g. supply chain) and industries

The qualifications you need:

•  3+ years of experience leading technical pre-sales, including defining AI roadmaps, building compelling ROI/TCO business cases and prototyping of machine learning and generative AI solutions.
• Understanding of generative AI techniques like RAG, few shot learning, prompt engineering, multi-agent orchestration, multimodal understanding, or fine-tuning that are used to build high-impact use cases like intelligent chatbots and automated text processors.
• Understanding of business processes across sectors (such as Supply Chain or Finance) with the ability to translate high-level business needs into specific AI use cases.
• Good knowledge of Python and common ML libraries (such as LangChain, pandas, pydantic, sklearn, PyTorch) as well as data engineering tools and technologies.
• Strong presentation skills to both internal and external stakeholders (including executives), whether whiteboarding sessions or formal readouts and demos.
• Bachelor’s Degree required, Masters Degree in computer science, physics, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent work experience preferred.
• Hybrid working environment - 3 days per week at our central Milan offices.  

Nice to have (big plus):

• Hands-on experience building agentic systems using LLM orchestration, RAG, function calling, and prompt engineering, while ensuring safety through rigorous evaluations and guardrails.
• Working knowledge of tools in the LLM ecosystem such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or other OSS packages.
• Experience in deploying and monitoring models at scale across major cloud platforms (AWS Bedrock, Azure AI, GCP Vertex)

About the Role

We're looking for a curious, technically-minded problem solver — not someone to just close tickets.

You'll troubleshoot complex customer issues across voice, messaging, APIs, IoT, and AI products, digging into networking problems, debugging integrations, and analysing logs alongside engineering teams. But this role goes further: we're building an AI-first support model, and as you develop product expertise, you'll help shape it — building bots, automating workflows, and turning repetitive tasks into cron jobs. If you've ever spotted a repetitive task and actually built the fix for it, you'll fit right in. A background in software engineering, networking, or a related technical field (however you got there) is ideal — We care about what you can do, not where you learned it.

What You'll Do

• Troubleshoot: complex customer issues across networking, APIs, and communications products
• Investigate: using tools like Postman, cURL, Wireshark, Linux terminal and our internal tooling
• Collaborate: with customers, vendors, and engineering teams to resolve cases
• Automate: contribute to bot-building and workflow automation
• Document: solutions and improve self-service resources
• Learn: VoIP protocols, internal systems, and new technologies as the role evolves

Your Toolkit

• Troubleshooting: Postman, cURL, Wireshark, sngrep, Linux terminal
• Ticketing and Comms: Zendesk, Slack
• Collaboration: Google Workspace (Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Meet)
• Automation: n8n, Zapier, OpenClaw (internal AI platform), scripting (Python, Bash, etc.)
• Version Control: GitHub
• Analytics: Metabase, Graylog, Jira

What We're Looking For

Must-Have

• Background in Computer Science, IT, networking, or equivalent hands-on experience
• Networking fundamentals: solid understanding of how the internet works, including DNS, routing, IP addressing, and HTTP/HTTPS
• API experience: comfortable with REST APIs, webhooks, and tools like Postman or cURL
• Linux terminal proficiency: comfortable navigating filesystems, reading logs, and running commands
• Problem-solving mindset: you dig into issues, ask good questions, and don't give up easily
• Communication skills: you'll need to be highly proficient in English, both written and verbal - owning customer communication and technical documentation from day one

Nice-to-Have

• Familiarity with scripting or programming (Python, Bash, JavaScript, or similar)
• Understanding of AI concepts such as RAG, MCPs, embeddings, and prompt engineering
• Experience using n8n, Zapier, Git/GitHub, or similar

You don’t need to tick every box -  if you’re keen to learn that's the box that matters most ! 

This role operates on Central Time (UTC-6), 9am–6pm Monday to Friday