Senior DevOps Engineer

Join a fast-growing SaaS environment focused on building and scaling next-generation, AI-powered products. This role is ideal for an experienced DevOps professional who thrives on ownership, reliability, and enabling engineering teams to move quickly and confidently.

Responsibilities

Own, design, and evolve infrastructure using a GitOps-driven, Kubernetes-native approach. Operate, scale, and support microservices architectures running on Kubernetes. Provision, upgrade, and maintain Kubernetes clusters using tools such as kOps and Cluster API. Manage and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure using Crossplane and Terraform. Design, build, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions. Implement and improve observability, monitoring, tracing, and profiling across platforms. Lead incident response, conduct root cause analysis, and drive long-term system improvements. Continuously enhance platform reliability, security, cost efficiency, and developer experience.

Requirements

At least 5 years of hands-on experience working with Kubernetes, including strong operational and troubleshooting expertise. Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code and GitOps-driven environments. Solid experience managing AWS cloud infrastructure using tools such as Terraform and Crossplane. Strong background in operating microservices architectures in production environments. Experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions). Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, tracing, and profiling solutions. Experience leading incident response, root cause analysis, and driving platform reliability improvements. Ownership mindset with a strong focus on building reliable, scalable, and developer-friendly platforms. Pragmatic engineering approach with emphasis on maintainability and clarity. Experience with Kafka in a microservices environment, ideally using the Strimzi Kafka Operator. Experience developing or maintaining Kubernetes controllers in Go. Availability for monthly onsite presence in Madrid (2x per month).

If this opportunity excites you and your experience aligns with the role, we’d love to hear from you, apply now or email

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