Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

Summary

Location: Barcelona (Hybrid)

Rate: Negotiable

Duration: 6 Months

About the Client

Our client is a general leader in aviation technology, delivering innovative IT and communications solutions that connect airlines, airports, aircraft and governments worldwide.

Operating in over 200 countries and territories, they play a critical role in enabling the safe, secure and efficient movement of millions of passengers every day.

About the Role

The Lead Cloud Platform Engineer owns the implementation, integration, testing, and engineering lifecycle of cloud infrastructure, managed Kubernetes, and cloud-native platform services. The role translates approved architecture into secure, reliable, scalable, observable, and operationally supportable cloud platforms.

This is a senior, hands-on engineering role. It combines Azure platform engineering, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, cloud networking and identity, observability, reliability, and structured transition to Operations.

The engineer works closely with Platform Architecture, Operations, Infrastructure & Storage Engineering, Network Engineering, Security, vendors, and Product and Delivery teams.

Key Responsibilities:

Cloud Platform Engineering

• Build and operate Azure cloud infrastructure and shared platform services in accordance with approved architecture, security, resilience, and governance standards.

• Engineer cloud networking, identity, access controls, secrets, compute, storage, load balancing, private connectivity, and service integration.

• Implement reusable platform patterns consistently across development, test, preproduction, and production, including hybrid integration where required.

• Monitor cloud capacity, availability, performance, consumption, and cost; implement practical optimization and scaling actions.

Kubernetes and Cloud-Native Engineering

• Build, administer, upgrade, scale, and troubleshoot production Kubernetes platforms, with emphasis on Azure Kubernetes Service or comparable managed services.

• Diagnose issues involving worker nodes, container runtimes, CNI, CSI, CoreDNS, ingress, Services, scheduling, workload performance, and cloud dependencies.

• Implement resilient workload patterns using Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, health probes, requests and limits, disruption budgets, affinity, and topology-spread constraints.





• Plan and execute cluster lifecycle changes with compatibility checks, staged validation, stop/go gates, and tested recovery procedures.

Automation and Delivery

• Build reusable cloud infrastructure and platform modules using Terraform, Bicep, or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tools.

• Use Git-based workflows, CI/CD, and GitOps practices such as Argo CD to make changes reviewable, auditable, and reproducible.

• Develop supporting automation using Bash, Python, PowerShell, or Go and reduce undocumented manual procedures.

• Implement policy, security, configuration, and deployment controls as code wherever practical.

Observability and Performance

• Implement cloud, Kubernetes, infrastructure, and service metrics, dashboards, and actionable alerts using Azure Monitor, Prometheus, or equivalent tooling.

• Use application performance monitoring and distributed tracing platforms such as New Relic to correlate platform and application behaviour.

• Integrate logging platforms such as Elasticsearch and establish clear ownership, thresholds, escalation paths, and runbooks.

• Troubleshoot application latency across DNS, cloud load balancers, gateways, ingress, Services, pods, network paths, managed services, databases, and storage dependencies.

Testing and Production Readiness

• Plan and execute functional, integration, capacity, resilience, failover, upgrade, rollback, backup, and restoration testing.

• Validate the complete system, including application, network, compute, storage, monitoring, security, and operational dependencies.

• Define acceptance criteria, evidence requirements, abort conditions, and rollback procedures; communicate unresolved risks clearly.

• Support structured handover, early-life support, and Level 3 incident escalation until the platform is stable and accepted by Operations.

Leadership and Knowledge Management

• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and reviews of platform implementations, automation, test plans, and operational documentation.





• Produce usable runbooks, SOPs, diagrams, recovery procedures, known limitations, and escalation paths.

• Conduct practical knowledge transfer and actively reduce dependency on individual engineers.

• Collaborate across Architecture, Operations, Infrastructure & Storage, Network Engineering, Security, FinOps, vendors, and delivery teams.

What we are looking for

Required Skills

• Strong recent, hands-on experience engineering Azure or comparable public-cloud platforms.

• Strong production experience administering and troubleshooting Kubernetes, preferably a managed service such as AKS.

• Practical knowledge of cloud networking, identity and access management, security controls, compute, storage, load balancing, private connectivity, and DNS.

• Strong Linux fundamentals and practical knowledge of Kubernetes networking, ingress, scheduling, workload controllers, storage integration, and container runtimes.

• Strong experience with infrastructure as code and automation, preferably Terraform, Bicep, or equivalent technologies.

• Experience with Git, CI/CD, GitOps, and controlled production change practices.

• Experience using metrics, logs, tracing, and alerts to resolve cross-layer incidents, and implementing cloud resilience, recovery, governance, and cost controls.

• Strong troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, risk management, and technical documentation skills.

• Ability to translate approved designs into working solutions and identify unsafe or unworkable assumptions.

• Clear communication and effective collaboration across distributed technical teams.

Desirable Experience

• Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure networking, Azure identity, Azure Policy, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, and related platform services.

• Prometheus, New Relic, Elasticsearch, and Argo CD or comparable observability and GitOps tooling.

• Cloud security posture management, policy as code, landing-zone implementation, and regulated environments.

• FinOps practices, capacity optimization, cloud cost controls, and hybrid connectivity.

• Business-continuity, disaster-recovery, and production resilience testing. Candidates do not need deep expertise in every desirable technology. Strong cloud, Kubernetes, automation, security, and operational fundamentals are more important than matching every product listed.

📌 Lead Cloud Platform Engineer - barcelona
🏢 Psd Group
📍 Barcelona