Senior DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)

Your mission at Mercanis

We are a small, collaborative engineering organization where Platform & Infrastructure plays a key role in keeping our systems reliable, secure, scalable, and ready for AI-driven product capabilities. We also encourage the pragmatic use of AI tools in daily engineering work.

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help evolve the infrastructure behind our SaaS and agentic platform.

You will work on AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, security, and developer experience across multiple services and environments. This is a hands-on role with strong ownership, close collaboration with product engineering teams, and direct impact on how we scale our platform.

Your Responsibilities on this role

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform and AWS CDK.
• Improve GitLab CI/CD pipelines across services and environments.
• Support serverless and cloud-native workloads, including Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, SNS, and EventBridge.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing with CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry.
• Strengthen infrastructure security, including IAM, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and production access.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve deployment workflows and developer experience.
• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.

Role requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or a similar role.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience in production environments.
• Solid experience with Terraform, GitLab CI, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Good scripting skills in Python, Bash, or similar.
• Experience operating production systems and troubleshooting complex issues.
• Security-minded approach to cloud infrastructure and access management.
• Strong communication skills in a remote-first, async environment.
• Proactive use of AI tools to improve engineering productivity, automation, documentation, troubleshooting, and decision-making.
• Experience working in multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments is a plus, especially with GCP, Alibaba Cloud, or STACKIT.

Why to join us here at Mercanis?

• Salary range: €60,000 - €65,000 gross/year, depending on experience.
• You will experience a flexible remote setup in Spain, with the option to join our Berlin office for collaboration
• Strong ownership of platform and infrastructure topics.
• A small, collaborative engineering team with low bureaucracy.
• The opportunity to shape CI/CD, observability, cloud infrastructure, security, developer experience, and platform foundations for AI-driven products.