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Senior DevOps Engineer

Bitpanda
DevOps / SRE • Senior • On-site • Full-time • 📍 Barcelona
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A Senior DevOps Engineer role at Bitpanda, taking a leading role in shaping the next generation of cloud-native AWS infrastructure that powers digital finance. The engineer drives architectural decisions, owns the cross-cluster Istio service mesh and the performance of Confluent Kafka deployments, and mentors junior engineers. The role focuses on multi-cluster networking, high availability and automation.

Stack

AWSDockerGitLabKafkaKubernetesPandasTerraform

Responsibilities

  • ▹Design and evolve AWS-based infrastructure using Terraform and ArgoCD
  • ▹Own the cross-cluster Istio service mesh, implementing policies and improving traffic management
  • ▹Monitor, optimise and automate systems using Datadog, Opsgenie and AI-powered tooling
  • ▹Take ownership of the performance and scaling of Confluent Kafka deployments
  • ▹Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and promote engineering excellence

Requirements

  • ▹5+ years of hands-on experience building and managing AWS infrastructure (EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, KMS)
  • ▹Strong expertise in Docker, Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation)
  • ▹3+ years optimizing cluster-level Kafka deployments or cloud relational/NoSQL databases in AWS
  • ▹Advanced understanding of cloud networking including routing, load balancing, VPC design and service mesh

Nice to have

  • ▹Experience with Confluent Kafka
  • ▹Familiarity with multi-cluster service-mesh networking

Soft skills

Mentoring and guiding junior engineersDriving architectural decisionsCollaboration with engineering teamsKnowledge sharing and process improvement
Languages: angol