Senior DevOps Engineer, GitOps

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Spain.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and manage scalable and secure AWS infrastructure, encompassing ECS, MSK, ECR, IAM, and VPC networking.

• Operate and maintain production Kubernetes clusters, focusing on deployment strategies, scaling, observability, and upgrades.

• Establish, manage, and enhance GitLab and GitLab CI/CD pipelines.

• Promote GitOps methodologies to ensure infrastructure and application modifications are versioned, reviewed, and reproducible.

• Oversee infrastructure as code and sustain consistent, auditable environments.

• Create and sustain secure, efficient Docker containerized workloads.

• Integrate and manage identity and access management solutions, including Keycloak.

• Develop tooling, automation, and intermediary code to minimize manual tasks and enhance developer experience.

• Utilize LLM-based coding tools and assist the team in adopting them effectively and safely.

• Engage in incident response, conduct root-cause analysis, and contribute to reliability enhancements.

• Optimize and troubleshoot database performance, addressing slow queries, indexing, and capacity planning.

• Establish observability across services utilizing metrics, logs, and distributed tracing.

• Make architectural choices, establish standards, and mentor team members.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a Senior DevOps Engineer or SRE role.

• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS, particularly with ECS, MSK, ECR, IAM, and VPC networking.

• Strong production experience with Kubernetes.

• Demonstrated ability to set up and manage CI/CD systems, specifically GitLab and GitLab pipelines.

• Solid understanding of GitOps principles and best practices.

• Comprehensive knowledge of Docker.

• Strong SQL expertise, including query optimization and database performance tuning.

• Proficiency in at least one programming language; Java is preferred, but Python or Go are also acceptable.

• Practical experience using LLM coding assistants such as Claude Code or Codex.

• Familiarity with Pulumi, Keycloak, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, ClickHouse or other columnar data stores, high-availability systems, and LLM gateways is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation and relocation package based on experience and skills.

• Bonus Beckham Law tax rate for those relocating to Spain for the first time.

• Flexible working hours.

• Remote work options within the Canary Islands, or from two offices located in Tenerife.

• Annual company offsite events.

• Opportunities for career growth and personal development.

• An inclusive and collaborative work culture.

• Direct impact within a rapidly growing SaaS company dedicated to helping creators succeed.