DevOps Engineer

This role is offered on an Italian employment contract. Candidates must be based in Italy as we are unable to support remote working from outside the country due to local employment and tax legislation.
This role sits within the DevOps team at Deltatre, building and operating the cloud-native infrastructure that supports our software platforms — Kubernetes clusters, Terraform-managed cloud resources, GitOps workflows, and the CI/CD pipelines that engineers across the company rely on daily.
We are hiring at two levels. Both roles require someone who thinks in systems, treats automation as a discipline, and takes ownership of operational reliability. The distinction lies in depth of experience, the complexity of problems owned independently, and the scope of contribution to wider engineering practice.
For engineers who own infrastructure end-to-end and shape how it evolves.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will lead the design of cloud-native architectures, own significant pieces of the Kubernetes and Terraform estate, and provide third-line escalation when complex issues arise. You will work alongside development teams to embed infrastructure thinking into their delivery, and you will spot systemic improvements before they become incidents.
Your day-to-day will include:
Design and own cloud-native system architectures on Kubernetes, prioritising availability, performance, and operational predictability
Build and evolve Terraform infrastructure-as-code patterns that engineering teams can use safely without specialist support
Develop GitOps workflows using Flux (or equivalent) to make application deployment consistent across environments
Lead complex incident response and run thorough post-mortems that produce systemic fixes, not patches
Improve system observability — Prometheus, Grafana, Kubernetes dashboards — and the alerting that gates production
Review IT security exposure regularly and lead the remediation that follows
Provide third-line support on the on-call roster, with a focus on permanent fixes
Mentor mid-level engineers and contribute to platform direction across the wider organisation
Mid-Level DevOps Engineer
For engineers with solid foundations who are ready to own meaningful infrastructure work.
As a Mid-Level DevOps Engineer, you will contribute to the same domains as your senior colleagues but with more guidance on architectural decisions. You will take ownership of well-scoped infrastructure work, support production systems, and grow your judgement on what good infrastructure looks like under real operational pressure.
Your day-to-day will include:
Contribute to cloud-native system architectures on Kubernetes, focused on availability and reliability of the services you support
Help build and maintain Terraform-managed cloud resources, prioritising consistency across environments
Maintain GitOps workflows for application deployment using Flux or equivalent tools
Operate container-based hosting environments — pods, services, deployments
Participate in incident response, identifying root causes and contributing fixes
Collaborate with development teams to support clean integration with the infrastructure estate
Contribute to observability and security improvements within your scope
Cover your share of the on-call roster
Requirements What we're looking for at Senior level
You build infrastructure that engineering teams trust without thinking about it. You think in systems and notice failure modes before they fire. You leave every platform you touch more observable and easier to operate than you found it.
Required
Substantial production experience with Kubernetes at scale — cluster management, networking, pod and service management
Substantial experience with Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code, including multi-environment patterns
Experience designing and operating GitOps workflows (Flux, Argo CD, or similar)
Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures — microservices, service meshes, containerisation
Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines including Docker builds
Demonstrated incident management experience — leading complex troubleshooting and post-mortems
Comfortable communicating infrastructure decisions to non-specialist stakeholders
Hands-on experience with NGINX Ingress Controller — path-based routing, TLS termination, load balancing
Experience with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipelines, or comparable CI/CD platforms
Production experience across multiple cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Solid grasp of IT security principles —