Senior DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)

mercanis; United States; Remote; USD 66,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote setup

Office in Berlin

Job summary

Mercanis seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to evolve platform infrastructure behind an Agentic AI procurement product. You will own decisions across AWS, CI/CD, security, and developer experience within a small, autonomous team building SaaS capabilities.

Responsibilities include designing AWS infra with Terraform, improving GitLab CI pipelines, and enhancing observability and security. Remote-first, with optional Berlin office collaboration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or similar.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience in production environments.
• Solid Terraform, GitLab CI, and infrastructure-as-code experience.
• 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.

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

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Python

Tools

Terraform

GitLab CI

OpenTelemetry

CloudWatch

Job description

Role overview

Help evolve the platform infrastructure behind an Agentic AI procurement product as a Senior DevOps Engineer. The role spans AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, security, and developer experience across a small, collaborative engineering organization building SaaS and agentic capabilities. You will own platform decisions with strong autonomy while leveraging AI tools to boost daily productivity.

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 including Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, SNS, and EventBridge
• Strengthen observability through monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing with CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry
• Improve infrastructure security including IAM, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and production access controls
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve deployment workflows and developer experience
• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis

Requirements

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or similar
• Strong hands‑on AWS experience in production environments
• Solid Terraform, GitLab CI, and infrastructure‑as‑code experience
• 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

Nice to have

• Multi‑cloud or hybrid‑cloud experience, especially with GCP, Alibaba Cloud, or STACKIT
• Proactive use of AI tools to improve engineering productivity, automation, documentation, and troubleshooting

Benefits and work setup

• Salary range €60,000 - €65,000 gross/year depending on experience
• Flexible remote setup in Spain with option to join a Berlin office for collaboration
• Small, collaborative engineering team with low bureaucracy and strong ownership of platform topics