DevOps Engineer

G+D makes the lives of billions of people around the world more secure. We create trust in the digital age with integrated security technologies in three business areas: Digital Security, Financial Platforms and Currency Technology. We have been a reliable partner for our customers for over 170 years with our innovative solutions for SecurityTech! We are an international technology group and traditional family business with over 14,000 employees in 40 countries. Creating Confidence is our path to success. Trust is the basis of our co-operation within G+D.

At Payment Technology, our mission is to be at the start of every transaction and to make it secure and simple. We also create contemporary payment and banking solutions for our digital age. As a one-stop shop, we produce and personalise hundreds of millions of payment cards every year and store their "digital twins" - mobile and digital. Would you like to actively shape the digital transformation with us?

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer focused on automation and reliability to build and operate our CI/CD pipelines and on‑premises platforms while ensuring robust monitoring, support, and system stability.

Your Responsibilities

Automation, Pipelines & Platform

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for the deployment of software across sites and datacenters.
• Operate and evolve our on-premises Kubernetes and legacy platform hosting applications.
• Drive consistency of deployed software and configuration across sites by automating deployments and infrastructure provisioning (Infrastructure as Code).
• Identify and implement automation opportunities to improve efficiency, repeatability, and scalability.

Reliability, Monitoring & Support

• Set up and maintain consistent monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Handle support requests via the service ticketing system, phone, and email; lead escalations, route issues to the right teams, and drive them to resolution.
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis and Post-Mortems with operations teams; feed findings back into product and process improvements.
• Support automated testing of new software releases and engage in performance analysis and system tuning.

Your Profile

Education & Experience

• Completed technical education, university degree in Computer Science, or equivalent.
• Several years of experience in DevOps, SRE, IT operations, or production software engineering. Prior IT Service Desk / 2nd-level support experience is a plus.

Core Technical Skills

• Containers & Orchestration: Hands‑on experience operating Kubernetes on‑premises (cluster lifecycle, networking, storage, security).
• CI/CD & Automation: Strong experience designing and running pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD) and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Helm).
• Operating Systems: Solid system administration in both Linux and Windows ecosystems (Windows 10/11, Windows Server).
• Applications: Experience operating and troubleshooting Java applications in production environments.
• Databases: Working knowledge of MS SQL Server and/or Oracle.
• Virtualization & Networking: Experience with VMware ESXi; basic LAN/network troubleshooting.
• Software Engineering fundamentals: understanding of microservices and data architectures.
• Observability: experience with monitoring/alerting stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).

Soft Skills

• Strong troubleshooting and analytical mindset; structured under pressure.
• Quality‑conscious, organized, and solution‑oriented.
• Self‑starter who takes initiative, learns continuously, and works well independently and across teams.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills — shares knowledge, gives and receives feedback well, communicates with empathy.
• A passion for automation, observability, and reliability.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken).

What’s great about working with us:

• Culture and diversity: Join a people‑oriented environment with different nationalities and a great team spirit, flat hierarchies (everyone speaks to everyone). Equal Opportunity Employer and LGBT+ friendly.
• Team: An opportunity to shape our engineering culture and work with a passionate, mission‑driven team. Collaboration with a diverse and very international team of outstanding people.
• Global Collaboration: Work collaboratively with stakeholders around the globe.
• Impactful Work: You will have the opportunity to participate in and shape a global lighthouse project in the domain of digital currencies.
• Career Development: Benefit from continuous training, coaching, and talent development programs.
• Social Benefits: Flexible compensation (transport tickets, training, private insurance), etc.
• Own canteen: Take a break with our breakfast and lunch service: choose between a wide range of menus, salad desk, and sandwiches service. Nicely priced!
• Work-Life Balance: Flexible working hours with the option for remote work (Mon–Thu 8:30 – 17:30 and Fri 8:30 – 15:30; 3 days of remote work).
• Location: El Prat de Llobregat. Easy communication by private transport or public transport: Bus 88, 110, PR4 and Metro L10S (ZAL/Riu Vell).