DevOps Engineer

About Shalion

Shalion is an eCommerce intelligence company. Our platform brings digital shelf, retail media and food service data together and shows global brands exactly how their products perform online: availability, pricing, content and share of search. With Maestro, our conversational AI, they get answers in seconds and make better decisions, faster.

Every day, we collect 100 million data points from over 1,000 retailers in 85+ countries, for brands such as Heineken, Lego, Danone, Nestlé, Coca-Cola and JDE. We are about 140 people, with offices in Barcelona, Buenos Aires and New York, and colleagues across Europe, the Americas and Asia.

The role

You will join the Platforms team as our DevOps Engineer, reporting to Baudilio, our Head of Platforms. It is a small team that keeps everything behind Shalion running: the clusters, the pipelines and the observability that the rest of engineering relies on every day. You will pair with backend and data engineers much more often than you write application code.

This is what we run today:

• Cloud: AWS, several accounts (product, data and others)

• Compute: EKS, Lambda, Fargate, some EC2

• Delivery: GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Docker, ECR, self-hosted runners (ARC)

• Infrastructure as code: Terraform, S3 states

• Data: RDS Postgres, RabbitMQ, Redis, S3, SQS, Kinesis, Snowflake, Airbyte, Airflow, dbt

• Observability: Grafana Cloud (metrics, Loki, traces, profiles), CloudWatch

• Access: Cognito, IAM

What you will do

• Run our EKS clusters day to day: node groups, cluster autoscaler, upgrades, capacity, and the incidents that come with them. Production and develop are separate clusters.

• Change infrastructure in Terraform, with plans and applies going through GitHub Actions.

• Keep delivery working. Services build in GitHub Actions, images land in ECR, and Argo CD rolls them out to develop, staging and production. Most backends are Kotlin and Spring on Java 19, alongside Node workloads, Lambdas and scheduled jobs.

• Own observability in Grafana Cloud: Prometheus metrics, Loki logs, OpenTelemetry traces and Pyroscope profiles, plus the alerts and dashboards the rest of engineering actually uses.

• Help squads ship: IAM roles for service accounts, secrets, ingress, probes, and a pipeline that fails for a reason someone can read.

• Support the data platform where it meets infrastructure: Snowflake, Airbyte, Airflow on MWAA, dbt and Looker. You will not own the models. You will own the pipes, the permissions and the machines they run on.

What you bring

• 2 to 4 years operating production systems, with at least one of those years on Kubernetes in AWS.

• You have debugged a pod, a node and a deploy, and you can tell which of the three is actually wrong.

• You have written and reviewed Terraform, and you treat apply as a change with a blast radius.

• You have built or fixed CI pipelines and container images.

• You can read logs, metrics and a service graph well enough to find the failing hop.

• You are comfortable with Linux, networking basics (DNS, TLS, load balancers, security groups) and Git.

Nice to have

• Experience with Istio, Argo CD, KEDA, Snowflake or Airflow. You do not need to have run them before, but you do need to be able to learn them on a live platform without treating production as a sandbox.

What We Offer

• Salary: €50,000 to €60,000 gross per year, depending on experience.

• Contract: Permanent, full time.

• Hybrid: 3 days a week in our Barcelona office, with Tuesdays and Wednesdays remote.

• Holidays: 23 days a year, plus 24 and 31 December off.

• Flexible compensation: Restaurant, transport and childcare cards and private health insurance, paid from your gross salary so you save on tax.

• AI at work: Access to AI tools from day one, to use in your daily work.

• International team: Colleagues from more than 10 nationalities, across the world.

• Office: On Aribau, at the corner with Diagonal, with fresh fruit every day.

How we hire

1. A video call with our People team, to get to know you, how you like to work and whether Shalion is the right fit for you.

2. A video call with your future manager, to talk about the role and the team in more detail.

3. An assignment, so you can show how you approach a problem close to the real work.

4. A final interview at our Barcelona office with your future manager and a colleague from the team.

Shalion is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for everyone.