DevOps Engineer
On-siteBarcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Job Summary
Conduct infrastructure maintenance for scalable, secure, and reliable systems while improving deployment cycles. Manage business-critical production environments using Kubernetes, AWS, and Terraform, ensuring high availability across multi-account clouds. Automate configuration and CI/CD pipelines with Python, Bash, and GitOps tools like ArgoCD, while monitoring observability metrics via Prometheus and Grafana. Perform incident management, root-cause analysis, and root-cause analysis to maintain service reliability. Collaborate with engineering and product teams to support Python/Django services and modernize legacy infrastructure.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years operating business-critical systems in high-availability production environments
- Strong Linux knowledge and networking fundamentals
- Solid production experience operating Kubernetes (EKS or equivalent) with Helm, GitOps (ArgoCD) and cloud-native architectures
- Strong AWS expertise across core services (compute, networking, storage, IAM)
- Proven experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management (Puppet, Terraform, Ansible)
- Strong automation and scripting skills (Python, Bash)
- Experience operating production messaging/queueing and caching systems (RabbitMQ, Celery, Redis)
- Experience with CI/CD and observability, including incident management and root-cause analysis
- An ownership, product-oriented mindset (your users are internal teams), with a proactive approach to documentation and knowledge sharing
- Strong communication skills in English and Spanish, collaborating closely with engineering and product teams
Desired Qualifications
- Bonus points for experience with Python/Django
- Systems/network security, secrets management, compliance standards, and AWS cost optimization (FinOps)
- Progressive delivery and advanced Kubernetes autoscaling (ArgoCD, KEDA, Istio)
- Modernizing or migrating legacy infrastructure (configuration management to Kubernetes, CDK/Cloudformation/Terraform)
- SRE practices such as SLOs and error budgets
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