We are looking for a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer to develop and operate GoMining's cloud platform.
The primary focus of this role is GCP and Kubernetes, infrastructure and application delivery automation, and the reliability and security of production services.
You will maintain and improve our existing infrastructure, contribute to the development of the next generation of our platform, and help product teams ship changes safely and efficiently.
Responsibilities
Develop and operate infrastructure in GCP, including GKE, virtual machines, networking, load balancers, storage, and managed services
Manage Infrastructure as Code with Terraform: develop modules, manage state and dependencies, ensure reproducible changes, and identify configuration drift
Operate Kubernetes: upgrade clusters and platform components, configure autoscaling, workload placement, network policies, and resource allocation
Develop CI/CD and GitOps using GitLab CI and Flux / Argo CD, automating builds, checks, deployments, controlled releases, and rollbacks
Build observability across metrics, logs, distributed tracing, and actionable alerting. Define and improve SLIs/SLOstogether with engineering teams
Troubleshoot production incidents and performance issues, conduct root cause analysis, and eliminate recurring failure patterns
Implement least-privilege access, environment and service isolation, secure secrets management and rotation, and infrastructure audit controls
Maintain backup processes and regularly validate recovery of critical data and infrastructure according to agreed RPO/RTO
Help engineering teams prepare services for production,



including health checks, resource configuration, telemetry, and deployment procedures
Optimize cloud infrastructure usage and costs while maintaining reliability requirements
Maintain infrastructure documentation, operational runbooks, and recovery procedures
Requirements
Strong hands-on experience independently operating production infrastructure and Kubernetes, including upgrades, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery
Strong experience with GCP, including GKE, Compute Engine, VPC, IAM, and Cloud Storage;
good understanding of Cloud SQL, Cloud Logging, and Cloud Monitoring
Hands-on experience with Terraform, including modules, remote state, locking, importing existing resources, and safely applying infrastructure changes through CI
Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and containerization: Deployments, StatefulSets, Services, Ingress, storage, requests/limits, probes, autoscaling, RBAC, and NetworkPolicy
Experience with Helm and Kustomize
Strong Linux administration skills, preferably Debian/Ubuntu: processes, systemd, filesystems, disks, and resource troubleshooting
Strong networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP(S), TLS, routing, NAT, load balancing, and firewalls
Ability to troubleshoot connectivity issues across applications,



Kubernetes clusters, networks, and cloud services
Experience building CI/CD pipelines, preferably with GitLab CI, and strong understanding of Git and GitOps principles
Understanding of runner permissions, secrets protection, and production deployment controls
Automation skills with Bash and Python, including maintainable infrastructure scripts and API integrations
Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Cloud Monitoring
Practical experience operating PostgreSQL and understanding Redis and RabbitMQ, including availability, connections, replication or clustering, backup, and recovery
Strong understanding of cloud security principles: least privilege, service accounts, Workload Identity, secrets management, network segmentation, and access auditing
Ability to independently deliver infrastructure changes to a validated production result, explain technical trade-offs, and collaborate effectively with Engineering and Security teams
Nice to Have
Experience with Flux CD, Argo CD, Ansible, and HashiCorp Vault
Experience with OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing
Experience migrating infrastructure between clouds or Kubernetes clusters, including database migrations with limited downtime
Experience designing disaster recovery strategies and conducting recovery exercises
Cloud cost optimization and capacity planning experience
Experience with DigitalOcean, Hetzner, or AWS
Ability to read and troubleshoot JavaScript / TypeScript applications
Experience operating financial or

📌 Senior Devops / Platform Engineer - Gcp (Madrid)
🏢 Gomining
📍 Madrid