Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Department: Technology

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Madrid

Reporting To: Stefan Cirillo

Description

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated individual to assume the role of Infrastructure Team Lead within the Shared Technology Services department. As an Infrastructure Team Lead, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing the design, implementation, and maintenance of our IT infrastructure, encompassing both cloud-based and on-premises solutions, with a specific focus on Kubernetes environments. This position requires a strategic thinker with strong leadership qualities, technical expertise, and the ability to drive the team towards operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

- Leadership &

- Mentorship: Lead, mentor, and resource the infrastructure team to foster a high-performance culture and hit project targets.

- Architecture &

- Planning: Design scalable hybrid roadmaps and Kubernetes-centric system architectures aligned with business goals.

- Automation &

- CI/CD: Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD automation using Ansible and Terraform to streamline deployments.

- Operations &

- Reliability: Maintain performance, monitoring, and uptime across physical servers, networks, storage, and Kubernetes clusters; manage incident response and off-hours maintenance.

- Security &

- Compliance: Partner with InfoSec to enforce security controls, run risk assessments, and maintain audit readiness.

- Vendor Management:



Evaluate third-party tools and manage technology partner relationships to ensure strict SLA compliance.

Requirements

- Operational Leadership &

- Governance: Proven experience leading infrastructure or operations teams, with a track record of establishing key operational metrics (e.g., MTTR/MTTD, uptime SLAs, cloud spend optimization, and incident response frameworks).

- Project &

- Workflow Management: Exceptional organizational, resource-allocation, and project management skills to lead complex technical initiatives from inception to delivery.

- Hybrid Infrastructure &

- Automation: Deep knowledge of on-premises hardware (physical servers, SAN/NAS storage, enterprise networking) combined with expertise in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible.

- Cloud &

- OS Mastery: Hands-on experience architecting and administering multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) across both Linux and Windows operating systems.

Nice to have;

- Kubernetes &
- Cloud: CKA, CKAD, CKS, or AWS/Azure/GCP Solutions Architect.

- Linux, Systems &

- Virtualization: RHCSA/RHCE, LPIC, VMware VCP-DCV, or legacy MCSA/MCSE.

- Networking &

- IT Management: CCNA/CCNP or ITIL Foundation/Practitioner.

Benefits

- Great career development opportunities

- Hybrid working model

- International Health Insurance

- Health and Wellbeing Package (350 EUR per year)

- Birthday Day Off

- Me Time - 1 day off per year

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