Platform Lead Platform Lead -
- Starburst

Location:
Barcelona, Spain Contract: Contract
- 6 months minimum Working pattern: Hybrid, 2--3 days per week onsite in BCN or Remote within Spain We are looking for a hands-on Platform Lead to take ownership of a production Starburst Enterprise platform, ensuring its reliability, performance and continuous improvement. You will remain technically hands-on while also leading and supporting a small team of 2--3 engineers.

Key Responsibilities
Own the day-to-day operation and reliability of the Starburst platform Lead incident resolution, root-cause analysis and production support Manage upgrades, releases, patching and operational changes Support and improve Kubernetes-based platform infrastructure Automate platform tasks using Python, SQL and YAML Work with external vendors on technical issues, defects and upgrades Mentor engineers and improve documentation, processes and team standards Support monitoring, resilience,



performance and continuous improvement Essential Experience Strong experience with Starburst Enterprise, Trino or Presto Experience in a Platform Lead, Technical Lead or Senior Platform Engineer role Kubernetes, Helm, Docker and YAML AWS and RDS CI/CD and GitHub Actions Python and SQL Production support, incident management and troubleshooting Experience leading or mentoring a small technical team Strong communication and stakeholder management skills Desirable Experience Immuta, Apache Ranger or Collibra Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Hive or Iceberg dbt, AWS Glue, Lambda or Power BI Data virtualisation, data mesh or governed data platforms Experience in pharma, biotech, healthcare or another regulated environment FinOps, disaster recovery, scalability or platform resilience

📌 Platform Lead (Barcelona)
🏢 Talent
📍 Barcelona