Senior Backend Python Engineer to design and lead scalable services in critical environments. The role offers a hybrid model with 60% remote work and professional growth opportunities.
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Requirements
What we're looking for
🔹 Degree in Computer Engineering, Telecommunications, or equivalent.
🔹 Experience in the implementation and operation of ITSM processes (incidents, changes, problems, and requests).
🔹 General knowledge of IT infrastructure and technological service operation.
🔹 Experience managing service level agreements (SLA) and operational indicators.
🔹 Proficiency in ticket management and service tracking tools.
🔹 Experience leading technical teams and coordinating complex environments.
🔹 Analytical capacity, results orientation, and communication skills.
🔹 Availability to work on-site in a classified environment.
🔹 Valid Personal Security Clearance (HSP).
Nice to have
✔ Experience in defense projects or classified environments.
✔ Knowledge of ITIL, service governance, and operational management.
✔ Experience working with CMDB and service catalogs.
✔ Experience in risk management, audits, and continuous improvement.
✔ Ability to interface with clients, service managers, and multidisciplinary teams.
✔ Experience in the management of sensitive information and security procedures.
Pay & benefits
What you'll get
🚀 What do we offer?
- Innovative and high-impact projects: You will work with cutting-edge technologies, with impact both nationally and internationally.
- A career plan tailored to you: Designed to boost your growth and professional development.
- Autonomy and Flexibility: You will have the freedom to organize your work, with a real work-life balance adapted to your pace.
- Stability and future: Long-term projects in a leading company with more than 60,000 professionals, with financial security.
- Days off: 22 working days of vacation + 10 personal days.
- Close and transparent environment: You will enjoy direct and fluid communication with managers and colleagues, in a collaborative and open environment.
- Continuous training: through Open University and Udemy for Business (over 6,000 courses to specialize!)
- Employee discounts and benefits: Enjoy advantages in gyms, restaurants, shops, leisure, and much more as an Indra Group employee.
The role
💻 Join our European projects team!
In our positioning as a leading company in the defense sector, we want to strengthen our team with a Service Manager to coordinate technical teams and manage incidents in one of our key projects.
What you'll do
🔹 You lead the end-to-end operation of a critical service in a classified defense environment.
🔹 You coordinate technical teams and manage the resolution of incidents, requests, changes, and problems.
🔹 You direct the response to critical incidents, ensuring service continuity and availability.
🔹 You manage the Change Committee, evaluating associated risks, impacts, and evidence.
🔹 You perform root cause analysis and define continuous improvement plans.
🔹 You prepare operational and executive reports with service indicators and SLA compliance.
🔹 You supervise data quality and the correct management of operational information.
🔹 You guarantee the sanitization and consolidation of tickets from the classified network to the corporate management systems.
🔹 You act as a service governance reference, ensuring compliance with processes and operational standards.
Hiring process
🕓What is our selection process like?
- Review of your profile: We evaluate your experience and skills to determine if you fit what we are looking for.
- First contact (5-10 min): If you receive a call from an unknown number, it's our team! It will be a quick conversation to get to know you and answer any questions.
- Interview with the talent acquisition team: We want you to get to know us better as a company: values, career model, skills... so that both you and the team can assess if there is a match.
- Technical interview: You will meet with the team, who will explain the project and daily tasks. We will also explore your technical knowledge. Additionally, we will conduct brief psychological and English competency assessments (if required).
- Offer and welcome: If everything goes well, you will join our team and start this new stage together!
Estimated process duration: 2-3 weeks.
About Indra
Indra is a global technology and consulting company headquartered in Madrid, Spain, and a leader in IT and defense systems. It provides advanced solutions in air traffic management, defense electronics, cybersecurity, and digital transformation for clients worldwide. With a workforce of over 50,000 employees, Indra operates in more than 140 countries, making it one of Europe's largest defense and technology firms.
In Spain, Indra has a strong presence with major offices in Madrid, Alcobendas, and other cities, and it is a key player in the national defense and aerospace sectors. The company offers a wide range of roles for international professionals, from engineering and cybersecurity to project management and software development. Indra's work culture emphasizes innovation and technical excellence, and it actively recruits international talent, providing opportunities to work on cutting-edge projects in defense, space, and digital transformation.
- Industry
- IT and Defense
- Founded
- 1993
- Employees
- 50,000+
- Headquarters
- Madrid, Spain
- In Spain
- Madrid, Barcelona, Alcobendas
- Website
- indracompany.com
Good to know if you are moving
- Indra is a major defense contractor, offering opportunities to work on advanced defense systems like SCAPA and NGWS.
- The company has a strong focus on innovation, with significant investment in R&D and technology development.
- Indra provides hybrid and remote work options for many roles, offering flexibility for international hires.
- With offices in Madrid and Barcelona, Indra offers a chance to live in Spain's two largest cities.
- Indra is a global leader in air traffic management, with its systems used in over 100 countries.
In their own words
Additional information
As a company, we understand equality as a cross-cutting principle and a driver of social change. Based on this conviction, we reaffirm our commitment to equal treatment and opportunities between women and men, non-discrimination, equal pay, and work-life balance in professional and personal life.
This commitment is realized through the promotion of respectful and inclusive work environments, where all people are treated with dignity, can develop professionally, and have equal opportunities in selection, training, and promotion processes, offering a work environment free from any discrimination based on sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, ethnicity, marital status, or any other personal or social circumstance.
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