Senior DevOps

i2CAT Foundation (Barcelona) is opening a position to advance in the research and innovation field of real-time distributed video services, involving immersive media formats like volumetric video.

The candidate will join the Media & Internet Area (MIA) of i2CAT, which is composed of over 14 experienced researchers and engineers in the fields of distributed and interactive multimedia systems and media processing, and is involved in relevant R&I projects with the European and national ecosystems, in close collaboration with key players from academia and industry.

This area is seeking a highly motivated and talented Senior DevOps to join our development team. Within MIA team, the successful candidate will design from the scratch all the relevant stages that conform a fully featured CD/CI infrastructure capable of spawning automatically several services in the cloud using custom containers. The ideal candidate shall discuss which are the needs from development and managing staff in order to maximize production. We work in an agile manner so our work day involve daily meetings, sprint plannings, retrospectives...

The successful candidate will be responsible of design from the scratch a fully featured CD/CI pipeline. In general terms, it will consists in the creation of the docker containers to be spawned during integration testing, define infrastructure for remote deploying several services and integration of such infrastructure inside existing CD/CI Gitlab framework.

In parallel, the ideal candidate shall propose best options for in-house servers in order to have as smooth as possible integration of remote deployment infrastructure against it. Ideally, such candidate should also take care of project building, and unit testing integration.

Who we are:

The i2CAT Foundation is a non-profit research and innovation center that promotes mission-driven R&D activities on advanced Internet architectures, applications, and services. More than 15 years of international research define our expertise in the fields of 5G, IoT, VR, and Immersive Technologies, Cybersecurity, Blockchain, AI, and Digital Social Innovation. The center partners with companies, public administration, academia, and end-users to leverage this knowledge in order to meet real social and business challenges.

The greatest value of i2CAT is the talent of the people who make up our human team. We enjoy a team of people from more than 13 different nationalities and work every day to create and foster a work environment where we all feel comfortable creating, innovating and growing.

Want to know more? Visit our webpage! www.i2cat.net

What will you enjoy?

• Work from our offices or from home, whichever works best for you. We ask for two days in person at the office to coordinate with the rest of the team.


• This is a full-time vacancy


• We have a flexible work schedule respecting your work-life balance


• Reduced working hours on Fridays and in July and August


• Fix + variable salary


• Optional benefits: Travel pass, restaurant vouchers, nursery services support, medical insurance


• Annual leave of 27 working days


• We have fruit in the office to promote a healthy lifestyle


• If you are interested, you can participate in events of your sector.


• You will work with a laptop. You can choose your operative system, Mac, Linux or Windows.


• Company social and team-building events (virtual & in-person)


• You can develop your own and personal training programme with our support


• We will work so that you have a career plan to promote your growth and development

Where will you do it?

At i2CAT we already have an established ‘work-from-home’ policy for some time. You can work from home or from the office, whichever suits you best. We expect that you attend the office two days per week: one to stay connected with your team and another one to engage with other colleagues

If you decide to come to the office, we are located in Zona Universitària, next to the Campus Nord of the UPC, within a multidisciplinary and multicultural environment. It is a very well-connected area (metro, tram, bus) with bars and restaurants around.

Our offices are designed with an open-office concept where everything is light and transparency. We have a variety of workspaces so that you don't have to be at the same table all day.

i2CAT is an organization committed to equal opportunities. That is why we seek to increase the number of women in those areas where they are underrepresented, and therefore explicitly encourage female candidates to apply.

I2CAT is an organization committed to creating an environment where we celebrate diversity, and where we provide the dedicated support that our employees need, regardless of their disability.

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Minimum requirements:

• Azure overall cloud expertise


• Docker containers


• Ansible


• Git version system (Gitlab client)

Desired requirements:

• Kubernetes


• Terraform


• OpenStack