Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Prisma-Photonics sits at an intersection that matters in today’s SaaS ecosystem: cloud-delivered software that ingests high-volume, real world signals and turns them into operational insight. A Senior DevOps role here maps closely to the infrastructure challenges common in modern SaaS, but with added complexity from edge data collection, ML inference flows, and deployments that may span both customer cloud and on-prem environments.
From a career perspective, the work emphasizes durable SaaS skills: designing scalable architectures, building production-grade pipelines, and putting governance, security, and compliance practices into day-to-day engineering. The remit also highlights cost and health monitoring, which is increasingly central as SaaS organisations mature from shipping features to optimising reliability and unit economics. Exposure to AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD patterns translates well across data-heavy SaaS products.
This role is best suited to an experienced DevOps engineer who prefers owning architecture decisions and driving operational standards, not only maintaining systems. It will fit someone comfortable collaborating across data, ML, and product engineering while keeping an eye on resilience, observability, and controlled delivery in production environments.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Description:
Prisma-Photonics is a rapidly growing startup company, developing the next-generation smart-infrastructure solution based on novel fiber-sensing technology (smart roads, smart cities, perimeters, and grid monitoring, etc.). The company offers an award-winning disruptive solution; a “sensor free” approach to smart infrastructure. The company is VC backed and in the revenues stage.
Combining pioneering technology in optical fiber sensing with state-of-the-art machine learning, we help prevent environmental disasters, protect human lives, and keep critical energy and transportation backbones running smoothly.
We are now hiring a talented, self-driven, and passionate Senior DevOps to build and maintain optimized and highly available data pipelines that facilitate deeper analysis and reporting.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead the design and architecture of cloud-based data solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Design and build data pipelines for field data collection, analysis, and inference using industry production-grade technologies and tools.
- Design and build customer cloud / on-premise data solutions for storage, lookup, and processing flows.
- Study and incorporate standards for data governance, security, and compliance.
- Provide online and real-time monitoring and analysis of data systems health, accuracy, and costs.
- Plan and execute integrations with our edge computing solutions and AI models for both research and production flows.
What You Bring:
- +8 years of hands-on programming experience in high-level languages including python.
- +8 years experience in designing, building or administrating large scale software systems.
- Experience with AWS cloud, EKS, Airflow, Spark, Sage Maker, MongoDB, SQL.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Expert in designing and implementing highly resilient big data applications.
- Academic degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Information Systems.
- Certifications in AWS or other relevant cloud technologies.
- Proven track record with NIST compliance and security protocols.
Great to Have:
- Over 3 years of experience serving in an architect capacity or a comparable role.
- Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines, utilizing tools like Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
- Experience with Onprem Kubernetes (K8s).
- Security-focused background.
