DevOps Engineer

Malaga or Madrid based, hyrbid working with 2 days a week in the office

We're looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a collaborative technical team working directly with clients and across the full software delivery lifecycle. You'll play a key role in ensuring applications and their supporting environments remain reliable, consistent and efficient, combining hands-on infrastructure management with automation, troubleshooting and continuous improvement.

Role & Responsibilities

- Work directly with clients to understand technical and operational requirements and deliver effective DevOps solutions.
- Support and maintain development, test, pre-production and production environments.
- Provision, configure, maintain, upgrade and patch virtual machines across private cloud and virtualisation platforms.
- Automate infrastructure and repetitive operational tasks using Ansible, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, Bash and Python.
- Support and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines, deployments, builds and environment-related issues.
- Standardise developer environments and workflows, reducing configuration inconsistencies and manual intervention.
- Monitor environment health, capacity and availability, identifying configuration drift and implementing improvements.
- Build and maintain reusable infrastructure code, templates, golden images, base containers and automation components.
- Troubleshoot issues across networking, DNS, certificates, identity and access management, secrets management and service discovery.
- Work closely with software engineering, infrastructure, database, networking and security teams.
- Participate in incident investigation, root-cause analysis and the implementation of permanent fixes.
- Identify opportunities to improve reliability,



automation and the speed and consistency of software delivery.

Experience & Skills Required

- Strong hands-on experience administering and troubleshooting Linux-based systems.
- Experience managing virtual machines within environments such as OpenStack or VMware.
- Good knowledge of container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Practical experience with Terraform and Ansible or similar Infrastructure-as-Code/configuration management tools.
- Experience with Git-based workflows and CI/CD, ideally GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins or Bamboo.
- Strong scripting skills using Bash, Python or a comparable language.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, operating systems, applications, networking and deployment pipelines.
- Good understanding of networking fundamentals including DNS, routing, load balancing, connectivity and TLS certificates.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana and ELK/EFK.
- Exposure to secrets management, authentication and access-control technologies such as Vault and Keycloak.
- Strong communication skills and the confidence to work directly with clients and a range of technical stakeholders.
- Experience with Argo CD, Helm, highly available or business-critical applications, managed-service environments and security hardening would be advantageous.

This is a great opportunity for a DevOps Engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, improving how environments operate and using automation to make software delivery faster and more reliable. You'll work across a varied technology landscape with plenty of opportunity to take ownership and make a genuine impact.

Interested? Apply today or get in touch to find out more about the role and the team.

Dave

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📌 Devops Engineer (Madrid)
🏢 Humankind Global Recruitment
📍 Madrid