Senior DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)

Mercanis; Berlin; Remote; EUR 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote setup

Berlin office option

Job summary

Mercanis is building the Agentic AI Procurement Suite. We seek a Senior DevOps Engineer to own AWS infra, CI/CD, observability, and security across services. You will design and evolve cloud infrastructure, improve deployment workflows, and collaborate with product teams in a remote-first setting.

We value hands-on experience with Terraform, GitLab CI, and IaC, plus scripting in Python or Bash. Join a small, collaborative team in a flexible setup with Berlin office option.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

AWS

GitLab CI

CI/CD

Python/Bash scripting

Security

Incident response

Communication (remote/async)

Multi-cloud/Hybrid-cloud

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Your mission at Mercanis

At Mercanis, we are building the Agentic AI Procurement Suite that powers the procurement of tomorrow, digital, transparent, and intelligent.

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.