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.
You will work on AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, 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
- 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.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing with CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry.
- Strengthen infrastructure security, including IAM, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and production access.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve deployment workflows and developer experience.
- Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
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.
- 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.