DevOps & Tools Engineer

The DevOps & Tools team delivers the CI/DE platforms, developer tools, and internal infrastructure that enable efficient software development across the Barcelona R&D organization. With an increasing number of services, repositories, and build environments, we require engineers who can contribute to system reliability, automation, and developer productivity. The DevOps & Tools Engineer plays a central role in implementing improvements to CI/CD pipelines, maintaining developer tooling, supporting on-prem infrastructure, executing lifecycle upgrades, and ensuring cybersecurity compliance.

Responsibilities:

• Implement, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines and tooling using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
• Develop and maintain scripts, automation, and internal utilities (Python, Bash, Ansible).
• Operate and support Linux systems (Ubuntu), participating in patching and OS upgrade cycles.
• Contribute to repository management within GitHub Enterprise: branch protections, templates, checks, CODEOWNERS.
• Manage artifacts in Nexus and support retention, traceability, and promotion workflows.
• Monitor system and pipeline health; resolve issues with guidance when needed. • Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis for CI/DE and tooling services.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications, Information Systems, or related engineering fields.
• Typically 3 years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, CI/CD, automation, or infrastructure operations.
• Hands-on experience maintaining pipelines, developer tools, or Linux-based systems.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Solid knowledge of Linux (Ubuntu) system administration fundamentals.
• Good scripting skills using Python or Bash; familiarity with configuration management tools.
• Practical experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines at team or project scale.
• Understanding of Git workflows, pull requests, branch policies, and repo hygiene (GitHub Enterprise preferred).
• Familiarity with artifact repositories (Nexus) and build/test automation concepts.

About Us:

Ascendion is a global, leading provider of AI-first software engineering services, delivering transformative solutions across North America, APAC, and Europe. We are headquartered in New Jersey. We combine technology and talent to deliver tech debt relief, improve engineering productivity solutions, and accelerate time to value, driving our clients’ digital journeys with efficiency and velocity. Guided by our “Engineering to the power of AI” [EngineeringAI] methodology, we integrate AI into software engineering, enterprise operations, and talent orchestration, to address critical challenges of trust, speed, and capital. For more information, please go to www.ascendion.com

With Ascendion (www.ascendion.com), you:

• Will get to work on numerous challenging and exciting projects on our various offerings including Salesforce, AI/Data Science, Generative AI/ML, Automation, Cloud Enterprise and Product/Platform Engineering.
• At Ascendion you have high chances of project extension or redeployment to other clients.
• Additionally, you can also share CV of anyone you know. We have a referral policy in place.