Overview

You lead Seqera’s Platform Infrastructure, shaping reliability, security, and cost effectiveness across internal and customer-facing cloud infrastructure. You manage a DevOps/SRE team and participate in architecture decisions, ensuring the platform meets a high product quality standard. You drive a dedicated single-tenant hosting offering, and own core tooling (Helm, Terraform, CI/CD) as products. You partner across engineering, product, and customer teams to accelerate secure, scalable Biotech data workflows. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic platform direction to enable resilient, cost-aware, enterprise-grade solutions.

Compensaciones / Ventajas

- Time off: 23 days vacation + 3 days in December
- Equity
- Private health insurance
- Private life insurance
- Home office allowance
- Oliva Mental Health App subscription (wellbeing)

Responsabilidades

- Own reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness of cloud infrastructure and platform health
- Lead the technical launch of dedicated single-tenant hosting including tenancy, provisioning, upgrades, and per-tenant cost model
- Own Helm charts and Terraform provider as products with versioning, docs, and tests
- Own CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and production deployment pathways for consistent pipelines and observability
- Make cloud cost an engineering discipline with team and tenant attribution, anomaly alerting, and design-time cost considerations




- Lead security posture through architecture reviews and enterprise customer communications
- Own formal incident response including severity definitions, incident commander rotation, and blameless postmortems
- Define production-ready standards (tests, observability, docs, runbooks) and enforce them across teams
- Grow and develop the Platform Infrastructure team, with hiring, mentorship, and career planning
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and customer-facing teams to bring infrastructure expertise into early decisions

Requisitos principales

- Led infra/platform/SRE teams with production reliability accountability
- Deep Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform experience in enterprise settings
- Shipped customer-deployable infrastructure and managed internal IaC with versioning and upgrade paths
- Strong security depth and ability to lead security architecture discussions
- Cost modeling and engineering ownership of cloud cost, with design-time considerations
- Experience with incident response and handling complex customer-involved incidents
- Comfortable interacting with senior engineers and leadership; strong documentation skills
- Ability to define and drive platform strategy in ambiguous environments

- Leadership and people development
- Strategic thinking with hands-on technical capability
- Strong communication and collaboration across cross-functional teams
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Terraform

📌 Head of Platform Engineering - Seqera (Barcelona)
🏢 Seqera
📍 Barcelona