DevOps Architect
Sant Joan Despí (BCN), ES
Your Responsibilities:
- Develop and own the infrastructure and platform roadmap, evaluate and recommend technologies and architectural patterns to support infrastructure scalability, cost efficiency, and agility
- Define comprehensive technical specifications, with strong emphasis on non-functional requirements: security (zero-trust, encryption, policy-as-code, compliance frameworks), performance (latency, throughput, high availability, disaster recovery), reliability, observability, and cost optimization
- Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps practices using tools such as Terraform/OpenTofu, Pulumi, Helm, ArgoCD/Flux, and Ansible
- Act as a technical leader and mentor to platform engineers, SREs, DevOps teams, and application developers. Foster strong collaboration between infrastructure/platform teams and product/engineering groups
- Produce high-quality, living documentation: architecture decision records (ADRs), design blueprints, runbooks, standards & guardrails, and platform user guides; following best practices
- Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate infrastructure risks, including security vulnerabilities, single points of failure, compliance gaps, operational drift, and cost overruns
Your Qualifications:
- 10+ years in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or architecture roles, with5+ years focused on production-scale Kubernetes and cloud platforms
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes (architecture, operators, CNI/service mesh, multi-cluster federation, upgrades at scale)
- Strong hands-on experience with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure) and hybrid/on-premiss integrations
- Proficiency in IaC (Terraform preferred), GitOps, containerization (Docker), CI/CD tooling, and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenTelemetry)
- Solid understanding of databases (relational, NoSQL, distributed), networking (VPC, SDN,load balancing, firewalls), and security best practices (RBAC, secrets management, encryption, vulnerability scanning)
- Proven track record defining non-functional requirements and delivering high-availability, performant, secure systems
- Excellent communication and leadership skills; experience mentoring teams and influencing stakeholders
What we offer
- 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.
- Global Teams: Enjoy collaborative work in Agile/SCRUM teams and with stakeholders around the globe.
- Innovative Products: Design and develop business processes and IT solutions for innovative products and digital solutions.
- Career Development: Continuous training and coaching, talent program.
- Benefits: Private medical insurance & transport ticket) and in-house parking.
- Flexible work time and remote work: Core time Mo-Th 9:30 – 17:00, 3 days of remote work.
- Own Canteen: Take a break with our breakfast and lunch service: Choose between a big range of menus, salad desk and sandwich service. Fruit packages.
- Location: Sant Joan Despí. Easy communication by public transport or private transport.
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