Senior DevOps Engineer (GitOps)

infinniinnovationssa; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work in Canary Islands

Yearly company gathering

Relocation/ compensation support

Job summary

infinniinnovationssa is seeking a senior DevOps Engineer to own the design and operation of cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and platform tooling for production services. This role focuses on AWS, Kubernetes, and GitOps, combining technical decisions with operational reliability and improvements to developer experience.

You will also guide the wider engineering team, enhance the tooling stack, and contribute to incident response and performance tuning across production workloads.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years in senior DevOps or SRE roles.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience: ECS, MSK, ECR, IAM, VPC networking.
• Production Kubernetes administration experience and GitLab CI/CD administration.
• Deep understanding of GitOps practices and Docker.
• Proficiency in Java (preferred) with Python/Go acceptable, plus experience with AI coding assistants.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate secure, scalable AWS infrastructure (ECS, MSK, ECR).
• Maintain production Kubernetes clusters, deployments, scaling, observability, upgrades.
• Administer GitLab CI/CD pipelines and promote reproducible infrastructure changes.
• Manage infrastructure as code and container workloads with consistent environments and secure images.
• Develop automation and tooling; guide teams in using AI coding assistants.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements.

Skills

Senior DevOps experience

Cloud architecture

DevOps tooling

AI coding assistants familiarity

Programming skills (Java/Python/Go)

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

GitLab CI/CD

Docker

GitOps

SQL

Job description

Role overview

Own the design and operation of cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and platform tooling for production services. This senior, hands-on role focuses on AWS, Kubernetes, and GitOps, combining technical decisions and operational reliability with improvements to the developer experience and guidance for the wider engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate secure, scalable AWS infrastructure, including services such as ECS, MSK, and ECR.
• Maintain production Kubernetes clusters, including deployments, scaling, observability, and upgrades.
• Administer and improve GitLab and its CI/CD pipelines; promote versioned, reviewed, reproducible infrastructure and application changes.
• Manage infrastructure as code and container workloads, with attention to consistent environments, image security, and build performance.
• Develop automation and tooling, and help teams use AI coding assistants effectively in engineering work.
• Join incident response and root-cause reviews, improve reliability and observability, and troubleshoot database performance.

Requirements

• At least five years of experience in senior DevOps engineering or site reliability engineering.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience, especially ECS, MSK, ECR, IAM, and VPC networking.
• Production Kubernetes experience and a record of administering GitLab CI/CD systems.
• Understanding of GitOps practices and in-depth Docker knowledge.
• Strong SQL skills, including query optimization and database performance tuning.
• Proficiency in a programming language; Java is preferred, with Python or Go also suitable. Practical experience with AI coding assistants is expected.

Nice to have

• Pulumi, Keycloak, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, or columnar database experience.
• Experience designing highly available systems or operating gateways for LLM services.

Benefits and work setup

• Flexible hours and remote work within the Canary Islands, or work from offices in Tenerife; a yearlycompany gatheringis mentioned.
• The listing describes compensation and relocation support based on experience, plus professional development opportunities.