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Infrastructure Team Lead

Hybrid in Sant Joan Despí·Added 16 days ago

Still open when we checked on 11 Oct

Overview

Job details

  • Hybrid

    Office and home days — the ad has the split.

Requirements

  • Have the right to work in Spain

    Giesecke+Devrient doesn't mention sponsorship in the ad.

  • Work in English

    English is required, per the ad.

  • Be near Sant Joan Despí for hybrid days

    No relocation package mentioned.

  • Have 10+ years of experience

    Lead-level role.

Benefits

  • Private health insurance

    Per the ad: paid by the employer, or taken through flexible pay.

Skills

Nice to have

Requirements

Education & certifications

  • 10+ years in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or architecture roles, with5+ years focused on production-scale Kubernetes and cloud platforms
  • Deep expertise in Kubernetes (architecture, operators, CNI/service mesh, multi-cluster federation, upgrades at scale)
  • Strong hands-on experience with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure) and hybrid/on-premiss integrations
  • Proficiency in IaC (Terraform preferred), GitOps, containerization (Docker), CI/CD tooling, and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenTelemetry)
  • Solid understanding of databases (relational, NoSQL, distributed), networking (VPC, SDN,load balancing, firewalls), and security best practices (RBAC, secrets management, encryption, vulnerability scanning)
  • Proven track record defining non-functional requirements and delivering high-availability, performant, secure systems
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills; experience mentoring teams and influencing stakeholders

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

  • Culture and Diversity: Join a people oriented environment with different nationalities and a great team spirit, flat hierarchies (everyone speaks to everyone). Equal Opportunity Employer and LGBT+ friendly.
  • Global Teams: Enjoy collaborative work in Agile/SCRUM teams and with stakeholders around the globe.
  • Innovative Products: Design and develop business processes and IT solutions for innovative products and digital solutions.
  • Career Development: Continuous training and coaching, talent program.
  • Benefits: Private medical insurance & transport ticket) and in-house parking.
  • Flexible work time and remote work: Core time Mo-Th 9:30 - 17:00, 3 days of remote work.
  • Own Canteen: Take a break with our breakfast and lunch service: Choose between a big range of menus, salad desk and sandwich service. Fruit packages.
  • Location: Sant Joan Despí. Easy communication by public transport or private transport.

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The role

What you'll do

  • Develop and own the infrastructure and platform roadmap, evaluate and recommend technologies and architectural patterns to support infrastructure scalability, cost efficiency, and agility
  • Define comprehensive technical specifications, with strong emphasis on non-functional requirements: security (zero-trust, encryption, policy-as-code, compliance frameworks), performance (latency, throughput, high availability, disaster recovery), reliability, observability, and cost optimization
  • Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps practices using tools such as Terraform/OpenTofu, Pulumi, Helm, ArgoCD/Flux, and Ansible
  • Act as a technical leader and mentor to platform engineers, SREs, DevOps teams, and application developers. Foster strong collaboration between infrastructure/platform teams and product/engineering groups
  • Produce high-quality, living documentation: architecture decision records (ADRs), design blueprints, runbooks, standards & guardrails, and platform user guides; following best practices
  • Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate infrastructure risks, including security vulnerabilities, single points of failure, compliance gaps, operational drift, and cost overruns

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