DevOps Engineer

dlocal; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

dLocal’s Cloud Platform team in Barcelona is seeking a DevOps Engineer to scale and secure infrastructure for mission-critical services. You will collaborate with software engineers, security, and compliance to deliver reliable, scalable platforms while adopting AI-assisted tooling with careful risk controls.

You will build and operate AWS infra and Kubernetes clusters, implement Gateway API traffic management, and contribute to disaster recovery planning.

Qualifications

• Hands-on with production AWS infrastructure (compute, networking, storage, IAM, load balancing).
• Production Kubernetes experience beyond deployment (cluster ops, scheduling, security, troubleshooting).
• Experience with Kubernetes traffic management, Gateway API, and a service mesh.
• Strong Terraform and Git-based engineering practices (modules, state, reviews).
• Strong Linux and networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS).
• Experience with high availability and disaster recovery (backups, restores, runbooks).
• Demonstrable AI-assisted infrastructure work and safe use of tools.
• Understanding cloud security fundamentals (least privilege, secrets, encryption).
• Clear communication and collaboration with distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate AWS infrastructure and production Kubernetes platforms.
• Implement Gateway API-based traffic management and service mesh capabilities.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules and infrastructure automation with safe deployment practices.
• Design and exercise multi-region disaster recovery plans (RTO/RPO).
• Apply AI-assisted tools to IaC, scripting, and runbooks; improve tests and reviews.
• Participate in infrastructure on-call rotations and incident response.

Skills

AWS infra

Kubernetes ops

Networking

Terraform

Git workflows

Gateway API

Service mesh

Linux basics

DRP planning

AI-assisted tooling

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Git

Gateway API

Istio

Linkerd

Argo CD

Flux

Helm

Job description

Job Type Full-time

Seniority Level 4: Specialist / Technical Referent / Team Lead

Workplace Hybrid

Posted October 20, 2026

Interested in this role?

What’s the opportunity?

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join dLocal’s Cloud Platform team and help evolve the infrastructure behind our mission-critical services.

You will partner with software engineers, Security, and Compliance to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable platforms. We value strong technical fundamentals and responsible use of AI-assisted tools, with ownership of every change and operational decision.

What will I be doing?

• Build and operate AWS infrastructure and production Kubernetes platforms, managing capacity, lifecycle, autoscaling, and multi-region availability while balancing performance, security, and cost.
• Implement Gateway API-based traffic management and service mesh capabilities, including gateway and route configuration, mTLS, traffic policies, observability, and controlled rollouts. Troubleshoot connectivity and performance across entry points, workloads, proxies, and networks.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules and infrastructure automation using version control, peer review, testing, and safe deployment and rollback practices.
• Help design, implement, and exercise multi-region disaster recovery plans (DRP). Translate agreed recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTO/RPO) into recovery procedures, validate restores, test regional failover and failback, and track remediation actions.
• Apply approved AI-assisted tools to IaC and script development and review, upgrade planning, configuration drift investigations, analysis of sanitized operational evidence, troubleshooting hypotheses, and improvements to tests and runbooks.
• Participate in the infrastructure on-call rotation, respond to incidents, contribute to post-incident reviews, and automate improvements that reduce operational toil.

What skills do I need?

• Hands-on experience with production AWS infrastructure, including compute, networking, storage, IAM, and load balancing.
• Production Kubernetes experience beyond application deployment, covering cluster operations, scheduling, security, and troubleshooting.
• Practical experience with Kubernetes traffic management, Gateway API, and a service mesh implementation. Comparable ingress/proxy experience combined with hands-on Gateway API work is also relevant.
• Strong Terraform and Git-based engineering practices, including module design, state management, change review, and safe infrastructure delivery.
• Strong Linux and networking fundamentals, including DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, routing, and systematic troubleshooting across infrastructure and application boundaries.
• Practical experience with high availability and disaster recovery, including backups, restores, recovery runbooks, and testing against RTO/RPO. Understand regional failure scenarios and the distinction between high availability and disaster recovery.
• Demonstrable AI-assisted infrastructure work. Be ready to explain a real workflow, how you validated the output, where the tool was wrong or unhelpful, and how you protected sensitive data and production systems.
• Understanding of cloud security fundamentals, including least privilege, secrets management, encryption, network controls, and secure change management.
• Clear communication, ownership, and effective collaboration with distributed engineering teams during planned work and incidents.

What would make you stand out?

• Proven delivery of multi-region recovery exercises, with dependency mapping and measured recovery results.
• Advanced experience with Gateway API controllers or service meshes, including upgrades, migrations, policy enforcement, and operational trade-offs. Examples include Envoy Gateway, Istio, Linkerd, and Cilium; expertise in every product is not required.
• Experience with GitOps and Kubernetes packaging tools such as Argo CD, Flux, Helm, or Kustomize.
• Experience building reusable AI-assisted workflows or integrations with bounded permissions, auditability, evaluation, and human approval controls.
• Experience with SLOs, error budgets, resilience testing, capacity planning, performance tuning, and cloud cost optimization.
• Experience supporting payments, financial services, or other regulated, availability-sensitive environments.