Senior Middle Level DevOps Engineer Full time - Hybrid Remote

kentech-sp; España; Hybrid; EUR 55,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Gym membership

Private health insurance

Pension plan

Job summary

KenTech is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable infrastructure and CI/CD platforms. You will mentor juniors, drive DevOps best practices, and collaborate with software, QA, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure fast, reliable software delivery.

Ideal candidates have 4+ years in DevOps/SRE/Infra, strong Kubernetes, IaC, and CI/CD expertise, plus English proficiency. Hybrid remote work and competitive salary are offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field; or equivalent
• Minimum 4 years of professional DevOps/SRE/Infrastructure experience
• Proficiency in English
• EU work permit required applicants outside EU: bachelor’s or master’s degree mandatory

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud and on‑prem infrastructure using IaC
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for automated delivery
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and deployments
• Maintain highly available, scalable Kubernetes environments
• Monitor performance; troubleshoot and prevent issues
• Collaborate with dev teams to improve reliability and scalability
• Implement observability: monitoring, logging, alerting
• Ensure security best practices across infrastructure
• Plan capacity, DR, backups, and continuity
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, post‑incident reviews
• Mentor junior DevOps engineers and promote best practices
• Evaluate new tech to boost platform efficiency
• Participate in architecture discussions and planning

Skills

Mentoring

DevOps culture

Architectural decisions

Collaboration

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Docker

Rancher

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Senior Middle-Level DevOps Engineer to join our growing team

You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure and CI/CD platforms that support our software development lifecycle. You will collaborate closely with Software Engineers, QA, Security, and Infrastructure teams to automate processes, improve deployment reliability, and ensure operational excellence. As a senior member of the team, you will also mentor junior engineers, drive DevOps best practices, and contribute to architectural decisions that enable rapid and reliable software delivery.

The selected candidate will have 4+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Infrastructure Engineering

Duties and Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud and on‑premises infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable and automated software delivery
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes
• Design and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure Kubernetes environments
• Monitor system performance, troubleshoot production issues, and implement preventive measures
• Collaborate with development teams to improve application reliability, scalability, and deployment strategies
• Implement and maintain observability solutions, including monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Ensure infrastructure complies with security best practices and organizational standards
• Perform capacity planning, disaster recovery planning, backup strategies, and business continuity improvements
• Lead incident response activities, root cause analysis, and post‑incident reviews
• Mentor junior DevOps engineers and promote DevOps culture and best practices across engineering teams
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies and tools to improve platform efficiency and developer productivity
• Participate in architecture discussions and infrastructure planning for new products and services

Knowledge and Experience

• Extensive experience with containerization technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher (or similar Kubernetes management platforms)
• Strong experience with Git and modern Git workflows
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools
• Experience with virtualization technologies: VMware, Proxmox
• Experience implementing monitoring and observability solutions: Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, Icinga, ELK/OpenSearch
• Strong understanding of networking concepts, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, and VPN technologies
• Experience implementing security best practices, including secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and system hardening
• Experience troubleshooting distributed systems and production environments
• Nice to have: Experience with public cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux, knowledge of service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd), experience with SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, experience with supporting microservices architectures and familiarity with compliance frameworks and security standards

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree or higher qualification in Computer Science, a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience
• A minimum of 4 years of professional experience in a related role
• Proficiency in the English language
• A bachelor's or master's degree is mandatory for applicants from outside the EU due to work permit requirements

KenTech’s Talent Development Program benefits from the bestpractices and stimulates the personal achievements, masteryof the employee’s professional skills and boosts their creativity.

Hybrid Remote work and flexible hours

Competitive salary and pension plan

Gym membership and private health insurance