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Lead DevOps Engineer

UST · Madrid, MD, Spain
Madrid, MD, SpainExp: 5+ yrsRemote
Remuneration
23 days of annual leave, plus discretionary days on December 24 and 31; health care plan; internet connectivity; life and accident insurance; flexible benefits for meals, childcare, transport, online English lessons, and health care; training platforms; referral compensation; choice of 12 or 14 annual payments; flexible and remote work arrangements; compacted summer hours; discounts and gym access.
Location
Madrid, MD, Spain
Visa sponsorship
Not specified

Job summary

Leads the design, development, deployment, and ongoing evolution of applications and platforms on AWS, serving as the technical reference for development, infrastructure, and support teams. The role oversees the application lifecycle, technical reviews, integrations, security, observability, availability, performance, and complex incident resolution while advancing automation and DevOps practices across distributed, high-availability environments using services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD.

Benefits

23 days of annual leaveDiscretionary days on December 24 and 31Health care planInternet connectivityLife and accident insuranceFlexible benefits for meals, childcare, transport, online English lessons, and hAccess to training platformsProfessional stability and career plansReferral compensationChoice of 12 or 14 annual paymentsFlexible and remote work arrangementsCompacted summer hoursDiscounts and gym access

Qualifications

  • More than five years of technical leadership experience in cloud engineering or a related field.
  • Experience leading technical teams and coordinating cross-functional initiatives.
  • Experience developing, deploying, and operating AWS applications in distributed, high-availability production environments.
  • Hands-on knowledge of AWS services, networking, and security.
  • Knowledge of distributed application architecture, microservices, Docker, and Kubernetes or EKS.
  • Experience with Terraform or equivalent Infrastructure as Code tools.
  • Experience with CI/CD and deployment automation.
  • Experience designing and implementing REST APIs, distributed services, event-driven architectures, and messaging and integration patterns.
  • Experience with production release and change management.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and technical leadership skills.
  • C1 English proficiency, spoken and written.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development, evolution, and implementation of AWS solutions.
  • Guide solution design and technology decisions for cloud applications and platforms.
  • Oversee application development, deployment, maintenance, and evolution.
  • Ensure integrations between applications, AWS services, and corporate systems.
  • Review solutions, code, infrastructure, and deployments; identify risks, technical debt, and improvement opportunities.
  • Enforce security, observability, availability, and performance standards.
  • Coordinate complex incident resolution and provide third-level support.
  • Drive automation, continuous improvement, and DevOps practices.
  • Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and maintain technical documentation.

Skills

AWSCloudWatchDockerECSEKSGitHubGitHub ActionsGitLabGitLab CIIAMKubernetesAWS LambdaRESTS3Terraform

Certifications

AWS Developer certificationAWS SysOps Administrator certificationAWS DevOps Engineer Professional certification

Languages

English: C1

Work schedule

Compacted hours during summer

Industry

BankingFinancial markets

Relocation

No