SRE Lead

SRE Lead

Kairos DS
Kairos DS
Remote, SpainCompetitiveRemoteAdded 14 days agoLead

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About the role

Your mission at Kairós

We are looking for an IT Service Operations Lead. Your main goal will be to ensure the stability, availability, and resilience of a highly critical platform, acting as the central hub of operational governance and coordinating 9 technical teams transversally with agility in any risk situation.

What you'll do

  • Governance and Operational Strategy: You will define and evolve the technological governance model (escalation circuits, procedures), ensuring strict compliance with financial regulations such as PCI DSS and DORA.
  • Critical Incident Management: You will lead the Incident Management Desk (especially P1 and P2) from detection to resolution, coordinating War Rooms, facilitating decision-making under pressure, and optimizing MTTR.
  • Problem Management and Continuous Improvement: You will lead RCAs (Root Cause Analysis) to identify structural failures and drive data-driven preventive and corrective actions to reduce incident recurrence.
  • Observability and Monitoring: You will define the observability model (logs, metrics, traces) together with the technical teams, establishing KPIs/SLOs to improve alerting capabilities and reduce false positives before they impact the business.
  • Reporting and Executive Communication: You will be the bridge to translate complex technical situations into business impact for Management and the Executive Committee, presenting reports on availability, SLA compliance, and operational risks.

What we're looking for

What will make you successful

  • Solid and senior track record in IT Operations, Service Management, or Incident Management.
  • Demonstrable experience in Fintech, Banking, or Payment environments (high criticality and regulated environments).
  • Proven leadership in coordinating multidisciplinary teams and managing crisis situations under pressure.

Technical Expertise and Methodologies (Must-have)

  • Architecture Vision: Ability to understand, challenge, and validate technical decisions in Microservices, APIs, and distributed environments.
  • Infrastructure and DB: Knowledge of Cloud (AWS), Docker, CI/CD (Jenkins), Git, as well as Relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB).
  • Frameworks: Mastery of ITIL and SRE practices, with extensive experience managing the lifecycle of incidents, problems, changes, and releases.
  • Observability: Management and definition of log, metric, and operational dashboard tools.

Nice to have

  • Previous experience in integration or evolution projects for large-scale digital payment platforms.

What you'll get

Benefits that make a difference

Professional growth worth it

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

Real Balance and Flexibility

  • 23 vacation days + December 24 and 31 off.
  • 1 day for professional events and 3 personal reconciliation days.
  • Reduced hours in August and intensive schedule every Friday of the year.
  • 100% remote work: You will work remotely, with some flexibility to adapt your schedule, although it will depend on the project you are on.

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.

How you'll work

remote

About the company & team

Who are we?

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, for the sixth consecutive year, 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 another number. We know you by name, we care about your personal balance, and we want you to grow with us.

Technology

We are looking for someone who...

  • Has cross-functional leadership capable of mobilizing and aligning 9 teams without direct hierarchy.
  • Maintains structure, calm, and clear priorities during high-impact crises (Management under pressure).
  • Has systemic vision to understand the platform as an interdependent ecosystem.
  • Has executive communication skills to report to Management concisely and focused on business impact.
  • Demonstrates ownership and absolute responsibility over the problem lifecycle until resolution.
  • Availability for 24x7 on-call shifts

Additional information

#TRY #THINK #FEEL #ENJOY

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 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 posting and join the team of Kairoseros and Kairoseras!

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