
Awin · Madrid
Purpose of Position We are seeking a skilled and experienced DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in br...
Purpose of Position
We are seeking a skilled and experienced DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a crucial
role in bridging the gap between development and operations, enabling efficient and seamless software delivery. You will be
responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines,
infrastructure, and automation tools.
Join our team and contribute to building a robust and efficient software delivery ecosystem. Together, we will drive innovation,
streamline processes, and deliver high-quality software solutions to our customers.
Key Tasks
delivery. This includes integrating and configuring various tools and technologies such as version control, build systems,
testing frameworks, and deployment automation.
environments. This includes provisioning and managing servers, networking components, cloud services, and containerization
platforms.
development and deployment processes. Evaluate, select, and integrate appropriate tools and technologies to improve efficiency,
scalability, and reliability.
reliability of applications and infrastructure. Proactively identify and resolve issues to minimize downtime and improve system
stability.
Collaborate with the security team to assess vulnerabilities, perform security audits, and address any potential risks.
engineers, and operations personnel, to facilitate effective collaboration and knowledge sharing. Communicate and coordinate
deployment activities and timelines with stakeholders.
automation. Proactively identify areas for process improvement and drive initiatives to enhance efficiency, scalability, and
reliability.
Skills & Expertise
Our Offer
completely disconnected day per week) at full pay, with no reduction to your annual holiday allowance.
foster a culture of mutual trust and working flexibility.
as well as a furniture package to support you in setting up a comfortable workspace when working from home.
physical wellbeing.
professional and personal growth, with trainings conveniently packaged to help your overall development.
We are hiring in multiple countries for this role. Additional benefits, including health and wellbeing offerings, will be
discussed during the initial interview.
Established in 2000, Awin is proud of our dynamic, social and inclusive culture.
Like all businesses, we’ve had to adapt and nurture our culture in a virtual environment. Our virtual ‘Life @ Awin’ hub brings our
colleagues from across the globe together for various social activities.
Diversity & Inclusion are paramount to us, and we proudly pursue and hire diverse team members. We champion uniqueness and
authenticity; this is who we are at our core. Our network of affiliate partnerships are diverse and transparent, as are the
employees powering our vision to build the world’s leading open partner ecosystem. We welcome all backgrounds, identities, and
experiences. If you need support at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.
Awin is part of the Axel Springer group. Learn more at axelspringer.com/en/, and explore the Axel Springer Essentials here:
axelspringer.com/en/inside/the-essentials-what-we-have-adapted-and-why
Apply now to begin the next stage of your career at a progressive company that supports both your professional and personal
development.
WHAT YOU’LL DO As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll own the design, reliability, and evolution of InteractiveAI’s production infrastructure, ensuring our platform is secure, scalable, observable, and fast to ship. You’ll guide a small, high-impact team of DevOps/SRE engineers, raising standards for uptime, deployment velocity, and operational excellence across cloud and hybrid environments. You’ll work closely with AI Engineers, Backend Engineers, and Product teams to support demanding workloads (including LLM/ Agent orchestration) while building a best-in-class AI engineering platform. Your responsibilities will include: * Architect and evolve InteractiveAI’s core infrastructure (networking, compute, storage, Kubernetes, CI/CD) to support rapid product delivery * Build and operate cloud-agnostic environments (Kubernetes) across VPC, on-prem, and hybrid deployments * Implement and maintain CI/CD for services and infrastructure (GitOps preferred), enabling safe and frequent deployments * Define “gold standards” for reliability: SLOs/SLIs, incident response, on-call practices, runbooks, and postmortems * Establish robust observability (metrics, logs, traces) with actionable alerting and performance monitoring * Drive infrastructure-as-code across environments (Terraform/Pulumi/CloudFormation), including strong review/testing practices * Own security fundamentals: secrets management, IAM, network segmentation, vulnerability management, and compliance readiness * Improve developer productivity with internal tooling, self-service environments, and paved paths * Optimize costs and capacity planning across clusters and workloads (including bursty inference/agent workloads) * Mentor and grow a small DevOps team, fostering ownership, quality, and pragmatic execution WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR We’re seeking a hands-on technical leader with a builder’s mindset—someone who thrives in fast-moving environments, can scale systems and practices, and can lead through influence and example. Minimum Requirements * 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure roles * Proven track record operating production systems with strong reliability and incident management practices * Strong expertise with Linux, networking fundamentals, and cloud infrastructure patterns * Deep knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) * Experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines for microservices and infrastructure * Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation) * Strong scripting/coding ability (Python, Bash, Go, or similar) * Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.) * Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure) Additional Requirements (Nice to Have) * Experience with service mesh, API gateways, or ingress at scale (Istio/Linkerd, NGINX, Envoy, etc.) * Familiarity with security & compliance practices (GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC 2 readiness) * Experience supporting GPU clusters or high-throughput compute workloads (a plus for AI platforms) * Exposure to MLOps/LLM serving infrastructure and performance/cost optimization * Prior experience leading or mentoring engineers (formally or informally) WHAT YOU’LL GET * Competitive base salary (€90,000/yr to €110,000/yr) + performance bonuses * Access to equity/share plan as it rolls out * Private health insurance * Flexible work setup + travel when needed (hybrid in Lisbon or Madrid) * 23 days PTO (excluding local public holidays) WHO YOU ARE * Proactive & Strategic: You anticipate scaling challenges and design systems that won’t collapse under growth. * Technical Leader: You raise the bar with strong engineering fundamentals, clarity, and high standards. * Accountable & High-Ownership: You take responsibility for uptime, security, and delivery outcomes. * Builder Mentality: You move fast in ambiguity while keeping production safe and predictable. * Collaborative Partner: You communicate clearly, build trust across teams, and balance pragmatism with long-term vision. INTERVIEW PROCESS We keep our process focused and respectful of your time. Most candidates complete it in 2–3 weeks. Here’s what to expect: 1. Intro Call – 30 minutes with our team to align on fit and expectations 2. Technical Challenge – A practical DevOps/SRE design or automation task 3. Technical Interview – Deep dive into infrastructure architecture, reliability, security, and delivery practices 4. Leadership & Values Interview – Assess alignment with InteractiveAI’s culture and growth mindset 5. Offer – Final conversation and offer We’re building a team of builders — people who care about impact, quality, and growth. If that’s you, let’s talk !
ABOUT LEMON.MARKETS 🍋 We enable anyone to be an investor. Our mission is to grow investing opportunities for all European customers and businesses. By empowering FinTechs, banks, and wealth managers to offer investment products, we help create financial well-being for their customers. lemon.markets is a Brokerage-as-a-Service platform: simple digital access to capital markets through a single API. Our API-first infrastructure abstracts brokerage complexity with a well-documented API, a self-service customer operations portal, and a clear regulatory framework, so partners can launch customer-centric, compliant products in weeks, not months. As part of the dwpbank group, we’re adding a layer of resources and expertise to benefit from, while continuing to operate as an independent fintech with our own team, product, and start-up identity under the dwpbank umbrella. YOUR MISSION: As a member of our cross-functional team of DevOps, DevSecOps and Workplace Technology engineers, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the direction and evolution of our infrastructure. You’ll build on a stable foundation that includes EKS on AWS, IaC principles, and robust deployment pipelines. Together, we’ll drive architectural enhancements, ensure compliance with regulatory standards, and support the growing demands of our business. Your work will significantly impact both our internal engineering teams and the external partners who depend on secure, reliable infrastructure. Leveraging your expertise, you’ll help us continue to deliver scalable and compliant solutions that empower our partners to innovate and bring investment opportunities to millions across Europe. ABOUT YOU: * You have hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or OpenTofu and are passionate about leveraging these to build reliable, scalable systems. * You have experience in AWS networking, core services (e.g., RDS, S3), and IAM security best practices. * You are skilled in managing Kubernetes (we use EKS) and are excited to maintain and evolve enterprise-scale platforms with best practices for security, privacy, monitoring, and CI/CD. * You have experience with observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry and are comfortable working with tools like DataDog to implement metrics, tracing, and robust monitoring solutions. * You bring a solid understanding of cloud-native technologies, including AWS services like RDS and RedShift, and know how to integrate them into highly performant and secure infrastructure. * You are familiar with modern CI/CD pipelines and workflow automation tools, including ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, and GitHub Actions, and you use them to streamline operations and improve developer productivity. * You have a proven ability to design, build, and maintain scalable platforms while working as part of a cross-functional team. YOU WILL BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE IF: * You can dive into an existing codebase and quickly familiarize yourself, identifying areas to improve and contribute effectively. * You see yourself as a product engineer. That means you are excited by solving customer problems and strive to become an expert in the domain area you are working in. * You are a team player. Working together as a team, sharing knowledge, and providing mentorship comes naturally to you. Long term, you may even see yourself stepping into a team lead role. * You understand what working in a startup or a similar lean organization is like. You are comfortable working with a small team, moving quickly, and focusing on what truly matters. * You are ready and willing to take ownership of problems and act on them decisively with little supervision. You always aim for high-quality outcomes through focus, determination, and attention to detail. * You enjoy learning new technologies and thrive on solving challenges with tools and methods beyond those you already know. We're looking for people with passion, desire to learn and that are team players. You're encouraged to apply, even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. HOW WE TAKE CARE OF YOU: * 🚀 Compensation package: We offer you a competitive salary, based on your experience and the value-add you bring to lemon.markets. * 🕑 Flexible working hours: We trust people to choose when they work best and avoid a rigid 9 to 5 mindset. You decide on the rhythm that helps you do your best work, with only shared core hours from 12:00 to 16:00 to support collaboration. * 🏢 Hybrid work setup: You can work from anywhere in Germany within a hybrid model. At the same time, in-person collaboration is a key part of our culture. That being said, individual contributer lemoneers work 4 days or more per month on-site in our Berlin office, spending quality time together with the team at events, onsites/offsites or over team dinners. * 📈 Grow with us: We take your personal development seriously! You’ll get regular mentorship and stretch opportunities, plus a clear career development framework with frequent feedback conversations so you always know where you stand, and what to do to level up. * 🌱 People & culture: You’ll feel our culture in the small things, like polaroids from our lemoneers’ first day, Friday food market strolls at Maybachufer, and our monthly new-joiner breakfast. But also in the bigger things: celebrating the onboarding of new partners, growing our teams, and owning a strong discussion culture. * 💛 Perks & benefits: We choose benefits that add actual value. We sponsor a Deutschlandticket for employees on unlimited contracts, plus 50% off on Beatvest - our partner for financial education and investing. * 🏝 Workation: Get out of here! At lemon.markets you can work remotely from anywhere in the EU for up to 10 consecutive days at a time, and up to 60 days per year in total. As an equal opportunity employer, lemon.markets is committed to building an inclusive workplace. The company welcomes people from all different backgrounds, including age, citizenship, ethnic and racial origins, gender identities, individuals with disabilities, marital status, religions and ideologies, and sexual orientations to apply. If you feel this role could be a great match for you even if you don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you, please apply. You have any questions? Feel free to contact us via talent@lemon.markets.com
IDnow is a leader in digital identity and fraud prevention in Europe with a mission to transform trust into the most powerful asset in the digital world, empowering enterprises with AI-driven, SaaS-based identity solutions that deliver scalable security, adaptive compliance, and real-time fraud prevention. Through its broad portfolio of digital identity and fraud prevention solutions, IDnow establishes, maintains and enriches trust throughout the customer journey, ensuring businesses can confidently and securely operate while leveraging digital identity to drive growth, security and scalability. The company has offices in Germany, United Kingdom, Romania and France, and is backed by renowned institutional investors, including Corsair Capital and Seventure Partners. Its portfolio of international clients spans a wide range of end markets including financial services, telecommunications, travel & mobility, gaming, and other industries. This position is based in Rennes, France. IDnow is looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer (f/m/d) to join our growing platform team in Rennes, France. We are looking for someone who can go beyond execution and take true technical ownership of our platform - driving architecture decisions, mentoring peers, and leading critical projects as we transition from on-premises infrastructure to AWS. You will be a senior technical voice within the team, working closely with the Engineering Manager and cross-functional stakeholders to shape the future of our platform infrastructure. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES * Act as a staff-level technical lead - own epics, drive architecture decisions, and set the technical direction for platform initiatives. * Lead the migration from on-premises infrastructure to AWS, ensuring continuity and resilience throughout the transition. * Champion best practices in infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and platform reliability. * Serve as a go-to expert and escalation point for complex technical challenges within the team. * Design, build, and maintain Kubernetes-based infrastructure across both cloud (AWS) and on-prem environments. * Manage and optimize the on-premises virtualization platform (Proxmox/Ceph) while progressively shifting workloads to AWS. * Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (AWS) and Ansible (on-prem). * Manage networking components including firewalls, switches, and related security configurations. * Ensure platform security through TLS certificate management, Vault, and close collaboration with the Security team * Participate in the on-call rotations (approximately every 6 weeks) covering the full platform stack - from infrastructure to CI/CD layers. * Respond to and resolve production incidents in a timely manner; contribute to post-mortems and continuous improvement. * Support and improve observability, monitoring, and alerting across the platform. PREFERRED EXPERIENCE * 5+ years of experience in DevOps or Platform Engineering. * Demonstrated experience operating at a Staff or Senior+ level — owning projects end-to-end with minimal oversight. * Experience working in a hybrid on-prem / cloud environment, ideally during cloud migration. * Passionate about technology and always learning. * Proactive, ownership-driven mindset, you build, improve, and take responsibility. * Strong communicator- able to engage stakeholders, document decisions, and collaborate across distributed teams. Nice-to-have's * Familiarity with Proxmox or similar open-source hypervisors. * Experience with security tooling beyond SSL/TLS (e.g., WAF, IDS/IPS). * Experience in a fast-moving SaaS or product-led engineering organization. * Comfort with AI-assisted development workflows. PERKS & BENEFITS * Health & Wellbeing: Use your full access to the mental health platform nilo, including 1on1 sessions. * We value personal and professional development: make full use of Udemy, our training platform with 24/7 access and unlimited content/course consumption incl. certification. * We make your remote work comfy: we provide support on equipment and offer flexible working hours. * We value collaboration & love to come together: regular onsite gatherings, internal initiatives and summer parties to connect outside of work. * May your family require your attention or other reasons apply: use the benefit of our paid special leave days. * Enjoy the possibility to combine work with a longer stay at your holiday destination or extend a weekend with our Workcation possibilities. * In addition to the perks & benefits above, we offer specific benefits that differ between our locations. IDnow applies the principles of non-discrimination and equality: We strive to establish, maintain, and promote an open and inclusive recruitment process and working environment by respecting the principles of equal opportunities. Including but not limited to: sex, race or ethnic origin, religion or convictions, gender identity, citizenship, marital status, disability, age, or sexual orientation.