Senior DevOps Engineer – Remote Spain, AI-Driven Infra

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

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.