DEVOPS Engineer

Prima
Madrid, Spain
26 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Software Quality Database Storage Structures Software Debugging Distributed Systems Domain Name System (DNS) HP Systems Insight Manager Python (Programming Language) PostgreSQL Performance Tuning RabbitMQ Redis Site Reliability Engineering Practices
+12 more
Software Engineering Management of Software Versions Software Vulnerability Management Datadog Mttr Reliability of Systems Pyspark Kubernetes Cloudflare Apache Kafka Machine Learning Operations Microservices

Job description

  • Define and monitor SLOs/SLIs
  • Work directly on production infrastructure
  • Collaborate closely with software engineers on system design and reliability improvements

Automation, Operations & Incident Response

  • Develop automation for infrastructure and operational workflows
  • Eliminate toil and reduce MTTR
  • Participate in and lead incident response
  • Drive blameless post-incident reviews with concrete follow-ups implemented in code and tooling

Performance, Capacity & Security

  • Continuously analyze and optimize system performance and cost
  • Provide data, insights, and recommendations for capacity planning
  • Support security best practices through hands-on vulnerability remediation and threat mitigation

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience with SRE practices in production
  • Strong AWS expertise
  • Kubernetes, networking, DNS, and Infrastructure as Code

Automation & Software Engineering

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals
  • Focus on code quality and maintainability
  • Deep knowledge of the Python ecosystem:
  • testing
  • debugging
  • packaging
  • Ability to write clean, well-structured, maintainable code

Reliability, Data & Operations

  • Lead incident response and RCAs
  • Improve system reliability
  • Engage stakeholders to propose solutions and share learnings
  • Mentor other engineers, * Experience in highly regulated industries:
  • Insurance
  • Banking
  • Healthcare
  • Managing sensitive dataSecure networking setups
  • Exposure to technologies such as Cloudflare

Distributed Systems & Microservices

  • Strong understanding of microservices architectures
  • Knowledge of principles and trade-offs
  • Ability to troubleshoot and maintain distributed systems
  • Experience with:
  • RabbitMQ
  • Kafka
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis

Observability, Data & MLOps

  • Hands-on experience with Datadog
  • Platform and application monitoring
  • Performance optimization
  • Database structures and operational troubleshooting
  • Experience with PySpark
  • Familiarity with MLOps practices:
  • model registries
  • versioning
  • retraining workflows
  • deployment lifecycles

About the company

Prima could be the place for you.

Since 2015, we’ve been using our love of data and tech to rethink motor insurance and bring drivers a great experience at a great price. Our story began in Italy, where we’ve quickly become the number one online motor insurance provider. In fact, we’re trusted by over 5 million drivers. And now we’re expanding to help millions more drivers in the UK and Spain.

To help fuel that growth, we need a DevOps Engineer to join our Infrastructure team.

This team is the beating heart of Prima.

You’ll be joining 350+ engineers across software development, infrastructure, operations, and security. Fueled by curiosity, experimentation, and collaboration, you’ll help deliver scalable, impactful solutions that shape the future of insurance.

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