We’re looking for an experienced Principal Cloud Operations Engineer to join our team in Barcelona. You’ll play a senior technical leadership role in designing, operating, and continuously improving the cloud infrastructure that underpins Sage HCM – our recently acquired HR and payroll platform (formerly Criterion), now expanding across North America, the UK, and Canada.
The platform runs on AWS and you’ll join at an exciting early stage, going through a structured handover with the existing technical team. You’ll be expected to be highly autonomous and to quickly become the go-to cloud operations expert for the product. Whilst the role sits within a people‑managed team, the technical direction of the cloud estate will be substantially yours to own.
This is a hybrid role working 3 days a week in our Barcelona office.
First 90 days
- 30 Days : Gain a thorough understanding of the Sage HCM platform architecture and the existing cloud infrastructure. Begin the structured handover with the current technical contractors, meet your team and key cross‑functional stakeholders,



and familiarise yourself with Sage’s engineering standards and ways of working.
- 60 Days : Take active ownership of day‑to‑day cloud operations for the platform. Contribute to incident response, observability improvements, and cost optimisation initiatives. Begin identifying toil and automation opportunities, and start influencing the operational standards and SOPs for the product.
- 90 Days : Own the cloud operations strategy for Sage HCM end‑to‑end. Lead the completion of the contractor handover, establish robust platform standards, and act as the senior technical voice in architecture and product shaping discussions. Begin mentoring and upskilling engineers on the team.

Meet the Team
You’ll join a distributed Cloud Operations team spanning Barcelona, Newcastle, and beyond, working closely with engineering, product, and security colleagues across the globe. Your line manager is the Engineering Man

📌 Principal CloudOps Engineer (España)
🏢 Sage
📍 España