Staff DevOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Spain, +5 more countries.

📋 Description

• Design and manage secure and resilient AWS infrastructure across various accounts and regions.

• Assess architectural decisions based on production needs, operational complexity, performance, and cost-effectiveness.

• Create reusable infrastructure-as-code components to minimize configuration drift.

• Oversee infrastructure and automation in Git with peer review, testing, thorough documentation, and clear ownership.

• Construct and sustain CI/CD pipelines, automated checks, deployment controls, and rollback procedures.

• Utilize programming, scripting, and APIs to streamline operations, eliminate repetitive tasks, and develop maintainable tools.

• Employ approved AI tools like Codex or Claude for tasks involving infrastructure code, scripting, testing, troubleshooting, operational analysis, and documentation.

• Independently review and verify AI outputs, safeguard sensitive information, and adhere to review and change control processes.

• Enhance metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and actionable alerts.

• Examine performance and capacity limitations and reduce unnecessary alert noise.

• Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response as required.

• Coordinate recovery efforts, communicate effectively, investigate root causes, and confirm corrective actions.

• Develop and test backup, recovery, failover, and maintenance procedures.

• Conduct controlled failure exercises to pinpoint resilience weaknesses.

• Evaluate AWS platform security, focusing on access, network exposure, logging, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations.

• Investigate security issues and suspicious activities, prioritize risks, and drive remediation efforts.

• Enhance threat detection, automate security checks, and improve response workflows, least-privilege access, network controls, secrets management, encryption, hardening, and auditability.

• Integrate technical security measures into infrastructure and delivery pipelines to satisfy security and compliance standards.

• Identify cloud inefficiencies and assess capacity and architectural enhancements based on measured workload behaviors.

• Review infrastructure designs and automation scripts, document decisions, and maintain runbooks and technical documentation.

• Collaborate closely with R&D and QA teams on releases and production requirements.

⛳️ Requirements

• Significant hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure engineering for production SaaS environments.

• Proven track record of independently identifying and addressing issues, prioritizing tasks, and managing dependencies while keeping stakeholders informed.

• Extensive knowledge of AWS and experience in designing, operating, and troubleshooting distributed systems across various environments.

• Strong background in AWS security operations, including assessments, incident investigations, and remediation of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.

• Practical observability experience utilizing metrics, logs, and traces to investigate production issues and create actionable dashboards and alerts.

• Proficient programming or scripting skills in Python, Node.js, or a similar language for sustainable automation and API integrations.

• Extensive hands-on experience with both Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, supported by Git, code review, testing, and CI/CD practices.

• Solid understanding of operating systems, networking, DNS, TLS, identity, storage, and database behavior, with the ability to troubleshoot across system boundaries.

• Experience with production incident response, root-cause analysis, and recovery planning.

• Practical experience utilizing AI tools in DevOps, including examples of their advantages, limitations, and how you validated and corrected their outputs.

• Analytical thinking and sound judgment: test assumptions, differentiate symptoms from causes, weigh trade-offs, verify outcomes, and recognize when broader review is necessary.

• Flexibility to collaborate across time zones and adjust working hours for team coordination, scheduled production changes, and critical incidents.

• Nice to have: Hands-on experience with Datadog for production troubleshooting and reliability enhancements.

• Nice to have: Familiarity with Terramate for managing Terraform infrastructure across different environments.

• Nice to have: Experience in creating operational tools or self-service workflows for provisioning, deployments, and environment management.

• Nice to have: Practical SRE experience, including service-level objectives, capacity planning, and reliability assessments.

• Nice to have: Experience supporting SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar requirements through technical controls and operational evidence.

• Nice to have: Experience developing AI agents with appropriate access boundaries, evaluation, and human oversight.

• Nice to have: Experience mentoring DevOps engineers and leading infrastructure or operational improvements.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work with flexibility for team collaboration and production responsibilities.

• Ownership of infrastructure supporting a rapidly growing global platform.

• Engaging DevOps challenges and opportunities to enhance your technical expertise.

• Direct collaboration with experienced and supportive colleagues.