Lead Infrastructure Engineer Department:

Technology

Employment Type:

Full Time

Location:

Barcelona

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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