Barcelona CloudOps Engineer: AWS, MongoDB, CI/CD

Evinova; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

AstraZeneca in Barcelona is seeking a CloudOps Engineer to support our SaaS platform, with 3 days onsite and 2 at home. You will manage AWS resources, run CI/CD pipelines, and optimize costs while ensuring reliability and security.

You’ll work with MongoDB/RDS Aurora, implement monitoring with Splunk, Grafana, and CloudWatch, and collaborate with global teams. This role suits a hands-on operator who thrives in an operations-first environment and seeks growth into senior positions.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in CloudOps, DevOps, or SRE roles.
• Operational knowledge of AWS (EC2, RDS, IAM, S3, CloudWatch).
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB/RDS Aurora in production environments.
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and automation (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Strong scripting ability (Python, Bash, or similar).
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Splunk, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Good communication and teamwork skills.
• Operations-first: enjoys ensuring systems run smoothly and reliably.
• Detail-oriented: diligent in monitoring, troubleshooting, and documenting.
• Collaborative: works well with global teams and cross-functional partners.
• Growth mindset: eager to learn new technologies and grow into senior roles.

Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day AWS operations (EC2, RDS, IAM, S3, VPC).
• Perform lifecycle management tasks such as patching, scaling, and backups.
• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and on-call rotations.
• Operate and maintain CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Improve deployment reliability through automation and scripting.
• Support engineering teams in deploying services and environments.
• Monitor cloud usage and support cost-optimization initiatives.
• Assist in identifying opportunities for savings (right-sizing, compute migrations, storage tiering).
• Partner with senior engineers to report and track cost efficiency.
• Operate and monitor MongoDB / RDS Aurora clusters (performance, backups, scaling).
• Troubleshoot database issues in collaboration with senior engineers.
• Support integration of MongoDB and/or RDS Aurora with application workloads.
• Configure monitoring and alerting with Splunk, Grafana, CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry.
• Contribute to incident detection and response playbooks.
• Help define operational runbooks and dashboards.
• Follow IAM security practices and apply least-privilege policies.
• Support patching, logging, and compliance tasks (SOC 2, ISO, HIPAA).
• Work with security engineers to maintain audit readiness.

Skills

AWS

MongoDB

CI/CD

Python

Bash

Monitoring

IAM

Teamwork

Tools

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Splunk

Grafana

CloudWatch

OpenTelemetry

EKS

Job description

AstraZeneca in Barcelona is seeking a CloudOps Engineer to support our SaaS platform, with 3 days onsite and 2 at home. You will manage AWS resources, run CI/CD pipelines, and optimize costs while ensuring reliability and security.

You’ll work with MongoDB/RDS Aurora, implement monitoring with Splunk, Grafana, and CloudWatch, and collaborate with global teams. This role suits a hands-on operator who thrives in an operations-first environment and seeks growth into senior positions.