DevOps Engineer - Databases

DevOps Engineer — Databases

Reporting to: DevOps Manager

Location: Málaga (hybrid)

Mid-Senior (3–6 years experience)

International IT Consultancy / Global Clients / 25 days holiday plus bank holidays / Health Insurance / Personal Development Budget

The DevOps Engineer will join a growing Data team within the Internal Developer Platform function.

This is not a “maintain the docs and sit in meetings” type of role.

You’ll be building, automating, deploying and operating database platforms on Kubernetes at scale, supporting 500+ developers across multiple environments. If you enjoy solving real operational problems, improving reliability, and working close to modern infrastructure tooling, this is the kind of environment where you’ll thrive.

You don’t need to be tied to one database technology. If you’ve deployed and operated databases on Kubernetes in production, we want to hear from you.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Deploying and operating database clusters on Kubernetes using operators and Helm charts

• Managing provisioning, scaling, backups, failover, upgrades and database reliability

• Working across technologies such as PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, MySQL, MongoDB,

Cassandra or ClickHouse

• Building and maintaining automation with Terraform, Helm and Ansible

• Integrating services into GitOps workflows using ArgoCD

• Supporting secrets management and operational tooling

• Troubleshooting production issues across distributed systems and infrastructure

• Collaborating with engineering teams on monitoring, observability and platform improvements

• Writing clean operational documentation and reusable automation

What We’re Looking For

Essential Experience

• 3+ years in a DevOps, SRE or Infrastructure Engineering role

• Strong production Kubernetes experience, particularly with stateful workloads

• Experience deploying databases on Kubernetes using operators or Helm

• Solid understanding of StatefulSets, PVCs, storage, failover and persistence concepts

• Hands-on experience with automation tooling such as Terraform, Helm and/or Ansible

• Linux administration and troubleshooting skills

• Exposure to CI/CD and GitOps tooling such as GitLab CI or ArgoCD

• Strong communication skills and ability to work within a distributed engineering team

Nice To Have

• PostgreSQL administration experience

• Elasticsearch or analytics/search platform exposure

• Monitoring and observability tooling experience (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)

• Scripting experience with Python, Go or Bash

• Secrets management experience (Vault/OpenBao, External Secrets Operator)

• Experience migrating databases from VMs into Kubernetes environments

Why Join?

You’ll be joining a small, highly capable engineering team where practical experience matters more than theory. The environment is collaborative, technically mature, and focused on solving genuine infrastructure challenges at scale.

You’ll have the opportunity to work with modern tooling, influence platform direction, and contribute from day one rather than sitting on the sidelines.

If you enjoy engineering-first environments and want to work on complex Kubernetes and database infrastructure problems, we’d love to speak with you

Dave

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