At Vodafone, we're not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we're shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you're part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.

Joining Vodafone

IoT's team means being part of a growing, purpose-driven organisation at the forefront of innovation.

What you'll do The successful candidate will join the Cloud Engineering and Infrastructure Enablement team, accountable for enabling the foundations of the IoT Integral Connectivity platform. This includes guaranteeing strategic evolution, operational excellence, security, cost optimisation, and resilience of infrastructure and database services, enabling the Hyperconnect modernisation programme and supporting Vodafone's ambition for global IoT leadership. The role also contributes to the adoption of AI-enabled infrastructure and operational capabilities, ensuring the platform can securely, reliably, and cost-effectively support intelligent, data-driven IoT services at integral scale.

Address long tail lower volume segment through digital self-service platform globally.

Responsibilities Engineering drive and operational excellence across the full lifecycle of infrastructure and database assets, ensuring reliability, scalability, security, and cost effectiveness. 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 visibility, resilience, 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.

Who you are Strong hands‐on experience with AWS, designing and operating production cloud environments. Familiar with cloud provider frameworks (e.g.

Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation using Terraform, Packer. 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 knowledge of cloud networking, including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, NACLs, VPNs, peering, transit gateways, and egress cost optimization.

Experience implementing cloud security controls, encryption, and key management services. Understanding of AI and machine‐learning concepts relevant to infrastructure and operations.

Experience working on geographically distributed teams and interacting and managing stakeholders in multiple markets and verticals. 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.

Equivalent hands‐on experience operating large‐scale, production cloud platforms is valued in lieu of formal certifications. What's in it for you On‐site work.

Office: Madrid. Flexible 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. Access to an online learning platform for continuous training. If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, please refer to for guidance.

📌 Specialist IoT Cloud Engineer Lead (Madrid)
🏢 Vodafone Group
📍 Madrid