II DevOps Engineer
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We are looking for a Senior II DevOps Engineer to play a key role in guiding and evolving our established DevSecOps team. This person will challenge the status quo, continuously seek improvements to our current practices, and drive innovation in how we build, deploy, and operate systems. You'll mentor and guide other engineers, influence technical direction, and work closely with the Director of IT Operations and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure, and efficient solutions while driving improvements in developer experience.
, Improve and Evolve Deployment Workflows : Lead the design and enhancement of deployment processes and CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket) to streamline delivery, increase reliability, and enable faster, safer releases.Manage and Optimise Cloud Infrastructure : Provision, secure, and manage AWS environments using Terraform (or similar IaC tools), ensuring scalability, reliability, and adherence to best practices, while continuously monitoring and optimising for cost efficiency.
Lead Container Orchestration : Design, implement, and manage Kubernetes/EKS environments, ensuring scalable, secure, and highly available workloads.
Ensure Database Reliability and Availability : Oversee PostgreSQL infrastructure from a DevOps perspective ensuring availability, monitoring health, managing backups/restores, and supporting HA/failover strategies.
Advance Observability and Reliability Practices : Improve monitoring, logging, and alerting across applications and infrastructure using common observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch), and define SLOs/SLIs with error budgets to ensure proactive detection, measurement, and resolution of issues.
Collaborate and Influence Across Team s: Partner closely with engineering, QA, security, and operations teams, fostering open communication, sharing expertise, and mentoring peers to drive continuous improvement and shared ownership of systems.
Requirements
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps or a related role, with a strong focus on automation and cloud infrastructure
- Proficiency in AWS services and best practices, with hands-on experience in: S3, CloudFront, ECS, Lambda, IAM, Cognito, Amplify, EC2, ELB/ALB, Auto Scaling, VPC, and Networking.
- Experience with modern DevOps tooling, including CI/CD platforms (Bitbucket, GitLab, GitHub), container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS), and related ecosystem tools.
- Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch database management
- Strong reliability engineering skills, including observability stack expertise (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and hands-on incident management with postmortem facilitation.
- Strong mentorship and leadership skills in cross-functional DevOps/SRE teams.
- Expertise in Terraform for IaC
- Scripting skills (e.g., Python, Bash)
- Fluent in English
- Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Terraform Associate)
- Building and scaling DevOps teams from the ground up
- Hands-on experience with security automation and DevSecOps tooling including Snyk, Trivy, OPA, Vault, AWS Security Hub, Inspector, and GuardDuty.
- Experience with disaster recovery design and large-scale failover testing
- Contributions to open-source DevOps/SRE projects or active participation in tech communities
- Familiarity with AIOps practices such as anomaly detection, intelligent alert correlation, and automated remediation to enhance reliability and reduce operational noise
Benefits & conditions
o A competitive salary for this position o Flexible hours o Hybrid working, with typically circa 3 days with the team in the Valencia hub o 11\u20ac per day meal-allowance + food and snacks at the office. o Private health o Private pension (company doubles your saving) o Best equipment: choose between Mac or Linux o Frequent training, budget for conferences, OReilly subscription o Access to Urban Sports / Fitness allowance o International environment (over 25 nationalities), with 50% of our leaders being women, and almost 50% of our tech team too o Working in a climate-tech company, helping corporations to identify ESG risks