Middleware Platform Engineer

Kairos DS·Remote, Spain

What they offer

  • Fully remote

    Per the ad.

What they ask for

  • Have the right to work in Spain

    Kairos DS doesn't mention sponsorship in the ad.

  • Work in English

    English is required, per the ad.

  • Have 3+ years of experience

    Mid-level role.

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This job was published 3 months ago

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About the role

We are looking for a Platform Engineer focused on middleware to join our Tech discipline.

Your mission will be to participate in key technological evolution projects, administering, implementing, and evolving our current ecosystem with a special focus on on-premise environments, facilitating the adoption of the platform across the company.

Here you will not only maintain infrastructure; you will be a key enabler for development teams, assisting them, providing support, and ensuring that deployments follow ITOps best practices.

In this role, communication is key, as you will have the opportunity to present and convince colleagues and managers about detected issues and innovative solutions.

What you'll do

  • Evolution and Maintenance: You will administer and evolve the current middleware ecosystem, ensuring proper use of the tools and processes defined by the ITOps department.
  • Team Enabler: You will work closely with development teams to guide them and provide the necessary support in adopting the middleware technologies under your responsibility.
  • Best Practices: You will know and ensure compliance with the best practices for architecture and use of the middleware ecosystem.
  • Automation and Resilience: You will create and promote the automation of the area's own operations, enhancing the resilience of all team systems.
  • Availability: You will maintain critical production systems by participating in organized on-call shifts.

What will make you successful

Nice to have

  • Experience and/or knowledge in the server and gateway ecosystem: Tomcat, WSO2 Micro Integrator, WSO2 APIManager.
  • Knowledge of connectivity and load balancers: Networking F5 LTMs/GTMs and Cloud Loadbalancers.
  • Understanding of event-driven architectures and messaging platforms such as Confluent.
  • Familiarity with in-memory databases such as Redis.
  • Experience with cloud services from AWS / Azure, with particular value placed on the use of MSK and EC2.
  • Additional experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools: Ansible / Terraform.
  • Understanding and use of tools for performance, load, and stability testing.
  • Knowledge of agile methodologies.

Education & certifications

  • Minimum 3 years of demonstrable experience in projects related to platform and middleware engineering.
  • Proficiency and work history with: Oracle Coherence, Oracle WebLogic, RabbitMQ, and Ansible.
  • Solid experience in process automation.
  • Experience maintaining production systems with on-call shifts.
  • Experience with Confluence

Languages

  • B2 English level.

What you'll get

Benefits that make a difference

Professional growth that is worth it

  • Continuous corporate training.
  • Free English classes in small groups.
  • Constant personal mentoring and support.
  • Participation in conferences, events, and technology communities.

Real work-life balance and flexibility

  • 23 vacation days + December 24th and 31st off.
  • 1 day for professional events and 3 days for personal reconciliation.

Benefits and personal care

  • Flexible compensation (Cobee) for restaurant, transportation, training, and childcare.
  • Health insurance with Cigna, Adeslas, or Sanitas.
  • Wellness program for emotional and psychological well-being.

About the company & team

We are Kairós, a different kind of technology company. Yes, we help our clients with their digital and methodological transformation challenges, but what truly defines us is how we do it: putting people at the center.

We have been recognized as a Great Place To Work company since 2019, ranking 5th in 2024. Our values of courage, empathy, innovation, and joy are how we work every day. We are more than 850 people (developers, data engineers, strategists...) and we are now looking for someone to join this brilliant and diverse team.

At Kairós, you are not just a number. We know you by name, we care about your work-life balance, and we want you to grow with us.

Additional information

At Kairós, we firmly believe in the importance of equality and diversity in the workplace. We are committed to creating an inclusive and respectful environment where all employees feel valued and have the opportunity to reach their full potential, regardless of their race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Apply to the job offer and join the Kairós team!

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Kairos DS

Kairos DS

Software Consultancy

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Spanish company
300 employees