Senior DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)

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, which runs on both AWS and Google Cloud (GCP).

You will work on infrastructure across both cloud platforms, CI/CD, Kubernetes, 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

5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or a similar role.

Strong hands-on experience with both AWS and GCP in production environments.

Production experience with Kubernetes, ideally GKE, and Helm.

Solid experience with Terraform or OpenTofu, 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 across multiple cloud providers.

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 with additional cloud providers such as Alibaba Cloud or STACKIT is a plus.

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 across two cloud platforms.

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.