Senior DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Remote in Spain

Berlin office

Ownership of platform

Small team

Job summary

Mercanis is building the AI Procurement Platform and seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to own and evolve our AWS-based infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and security across multiple services. You will work hands-on with Terraform, AWS CDK, GitLab CI, and serverless workloads, collaborating with a small, remote-first team to deliver scalable, reliable cloud foundations for our AI-driven product.

We offer a flexible remote setup in Spain with the option to join our Berlin office for

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or similar.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience in production.
• Solid Terraform, GitLab CI, and IaC practices.
• Good scripting in Python or Bash.
• Experience operating production systems and troubleshooting.
• Security-minded approach to cloud infrastructure.

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 incl. Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, SNS, EventBridge.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing with CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry.
• Strengthen infrastructure security, including IAM and secrets management.
• Collaborate with engineering to improve deployment workflows and developer experience.
• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.

Skills

Python scripting

Bash scripting

IaC practices

Strong AWS experience

SRE/DevOps experience

Security-minded

Async collaboration

Tools

Terraform

GitLab CI

AWS

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.

About Us

We are the AI Procurement Platform - Leading the Procurement of Tomorrow

At Mercanis, we have a clear mission: to shape the procurement of tomorrow - digital, transparent, and intelligent.

Our AI Procurement Platform digitalises the entire procurement process - from demand to supplier management and contract signing. Through the use of AI, operational tasks are fully automated, allowing procurement departments to focus on strategic matters. In this way, we create efficient structures, reduce manual efforts, and promote seamless collaboration along the entire supply chain.

Our vision: transparent processes, time-optimised automations, and sustainable supplier relationships that deliver real value.

With over $30 million in Series A funding, supported by leading investors such as Partech, Atlantic Vantage Point (AVP), and Speedinvest, we are well-positioned to continue expanding our vision. Since our founding, we've been working with a passionate team to shape the future of procurement. We are convinced: this is just the beginning.

That's why we are looking for ambitious new team members and creative minds who are ready to take bold new steps with us and shape the future of procurement.

We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities - regardless of gender, age, ethnicity or ability as part of our commitment to a fair, transparent, and merit-based recruitment process.

We know the impostor syndrome can sometimes hold back incredible talent, so if you're doubting yourself, don't.