Senior DevOps Engineer - Mainloop

Overview

Senior DevOps Engineer to design and build a production-ready platform from the ground up in Barcelona. You will own the entire delivery platform, enabling self-serve deployments and robust recovery. You’ll shape security, backups, and observability while ensuring the team can ship reliably without on-call Pager duties.

This AI-native role sits at the heart of a new engineering group and offers a long-term opportunity to define how products run in production.

• relocation package upfront
• flight and visa costs covered
• accommodation for first month
• Spanish lessons available
• healthcare without premiums or deductibles
• relocation bonus on arrival

• Build the platform from code: hosts, networking, ingress, access, environments, parameterised and reviewable
• Enable self-serve deployments with minimal platform credentials
• Design and implement a real secrets manager and brokered credentials for AI agents
• Demonstrate recoverability with tested backups and restore procedures
• Define release paths with automated gates, per-branch previews, and rehearsed rollbacks
• Maintain observability, cost controls, dependency hygiene, and boring, repeatable operations
• Own infrastructure decisions and impose a scalable, reproducible baseline across products
• Lead when there is no on-call culture, ensuring reliability without pager impact
• Document everything and ensure environments are reproducible from repositories
• Collaborate with product teams to align platform capabilities with business needs

• Senior DevOps experience building platforms from scratch
• Infrastructure as code as a core discipline
• Experience with backups and proven restore procedures
• Experience running Kubernetes in production (and the ability to say when it is not the right choice)
• Strong automation and deployment pipeline capabilities
• On-site capability in Barcelona (or willingness to relocate)
• Fluent English; Spanish useful; Catalan not required
• Experience with AI agents and agentic engineering is a plus

• autonomous and decisive
• strong communication and documentation
• pragmatic and ability to say no to unnecessary complexity
• Infrastructure as code
• Secrets management and least privilege
• Backup and restore automation