What you’ll do

- Engineering drive & operational excellence, overseeing the full lifecycle of infrastructure and database assets, ensuring reliability, scalability and security.
- Provide expert knowledge on cloud infrastructure and platforms, to ensure our organisation achieves its goals for cloud adoption.
- Design, build, deliver, maintain, and improve infrastructure solutions which includes automation strategies such as Infrastructure‑as‑code, Configuration‑as‑code, Policy‑as‑code, release orchestration and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and collaborative ways of working (e.g., DevOps).
- Own and optimise cloud and on‑premises infrastructure, improving inventory and proactive cost management.
- Work closely with the rest of the IoT Platform Engineering team, Product teams, Network engineering and Security teams to ensure seamless alignment and delivery.
- Manage supplier and partner relationships, ensuring getting the right support to achieve our business goals.

Who you are

- Master’s or bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Five or more years of experience in IT infrastructure and database management, both on‑premises and in the cloud.
- Technical certifications in Cloud and/or database technologies.
- Strong knowledge of cloud networking, including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, NACLs, VPNs, peering, transit gateways, and egress cost optimisation.
- Experience implementing cloud security controls, encryption, and key management services.
- Proven ability to design for resilience, including multi‑AZ and multi‑region architectures,



backup and recovery.
- Comfortable supporting incident response, root cause analysis, and operational improvements.
- Excellent written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and non‑technical audiences.
- Experience working on geographically distributed teams and interacting and managing stakeholders in multiple markets and verticals.
- Ability to balance strategic vision with operational execution.
- Proven use of CI/CD and DevOps tooling (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub/GitLab).
- Comfortable scripting and automating workflows using Python and shell scripting.
- Experience with container platforms including Docker and Kubernetes (EKS preferred).
- Strong hands‑on experience with AWS, designing and operating production‑grade environments.
- Deep understanding of IaaS, PaaS, scalable architectures, APIs, and microservices.
- Familiar with cloud provider frameworks (e.g., Well‑Architected) and architecture artifacts.
- Experience with infrastructure‑as‑code and automation using Terraform, Packer.

What's in it for you

- On site work. Office: Madrid
- Bonus on top of the gross salary.
- Meal voucher (Ticket Restaurant), additional to gross salary.
- Versátil working hours from Monday to Thursday, and an intensive schedule on Fridays.
- Intensive Summer Schedule during July and August.
- Up to 20 days per year of 100% remote work from other locations.
- Private Health and Life Insurance for employees.
- 25 vacation days, plus December 24th and 31st off.
- Optional Pension Plan.
- Access to an online learning platform for continuous training.

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📌 Specialist IoT Infrastructure Eng. Lead - Vodafone Group Plc (Madrid)
🏢 Vodafone Group
📍 Madrid