Cloud Engineer – European Tech Scale-Up | Barcelona / Valencia / Remote

Are you passionate about cloud infrastructure, scalability, automation, and building modern systems that support high-growth digital products?

We are currently partnering with a fast-growing European tech scale-up in the search for a Cloud Engineer to join their international engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a modern cloud-native environment where technology, innovation, and scalability are at the core of the business.

The company is scaling rapidly across Europe and is looking for engineers who enjoy solving complex technical challenges, improving infrastructure performance, and contributing to highly collaborative product and engineering teams.

The position can be based in Barcelona or Valencia, with flexible remote working possibilities within Spain.

The Opportunity

As Cloud Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, automating, securing, and optimizing cloud infrastructure across international environments. You will collaborate closely with DevOps, Software Engineering, Security, and Product teams to ensure reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.

This role is ideal for someone with approximately 3 to 8 years of experience who enjoys working with modern cloud ecosystems, Infrastructure as Code, containerized environments, CI/CD automation, and high-availability architectures.

You will join an international, fast-paced, and engineering-driven company where your ideas and technical expertise will have real impact.

What You Will Be Doing

Design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure environments.





Improve system reliability, performance, security, and automation processes.

Manage and optimize cloud-native architectures and containerized applications.

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.

Collaborate with engineering teams to support product scalability and infrastructure evolution.

Monitor infrastructure, troubleshoot incidents, and improve observability practices.

Contribute to cloud security, disaster recovery, and infrastructure best practices.

Support infrastructure migrations, cloud optimization, and platform improvements.

Tech Stack & Environment (2026)

The company works with a modern and evolving cloud ecosystem including:

AWS (primary cloud provider)

Kubernetes & Docker

Terraform / Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)

Linux environments

Monitoring & Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)

Cloud Security & IAM

Python / Bash scripting

Microservices architecture

Serverless & cloud-native solutions

PostgreSQL, Redis, and scalable distributed systems

DevSecOps and automation best practices

Experience with multi-cloud environments, AI infrastructure, FinOps, or platform engineering is considered a plus.

What We Are Looking For





3 to 8 years of experience as Cloud Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), or Infrastructure Engineer.

Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud environments.

Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and Infrastructure as Code.

Solid understanding of CI/CD, automation, and cloud security principles.

Ability to work in agile and international engineering environments.

Problem-solving mindset with strong ownership and collaboration skills.

Passion for modern technologies, scalability, and continuous improvement.

Language Requirements

Native or fluent Spanish level.

High level of English is essential for daily communication within the international engineering team.

What’s On Offer

Versátil remote working policy with offices in Barcelona and Valencia.

Opportunity to join a European scale-up in a strong growth phase.

International and highly collaborative engineering culture.

Exposure to modern cloud-native technologies and large-scale infrastructure projects.

Career growth opportunities within a fast-evolving tech environment.

Competitive salary package and long-term professional development.

As a recruitment partner specialized in technology recruitment, cloud engineering hiring, and international talent acquisition in Spain, we work with innovative companies looking to attract top engineering talent across cloud, DevOps, infrastructure, software, cybersecurity, and data environments.

If you would like to explore this opportunity confidentially, we would be happy to speak with you.

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