Infrastructure & DevOps Lead (Platform & Enablement)

Your contribution matters and is recognized. You can expect a fair and competitive compensation package that reflects the impact you generate and the value you bring. But we know that reward goes beyond numbers.

We are helping our teams go further through global opportunities and broad career paths.

Flexibility that works. Enjoy a hybrid work model—some days remote and others in person with your team—along with a flexible schedule.

Lifelong learning. Access hundreds of courses on our platforms, including exclusive access to our global learning space: Santander Open Academy (www.santanderopenacademy.com)

Exposure to the cutting edge. Work directly with Anthropic, Sakana AI, AWS, CMU, ICMAT, and INRIA. You will be at the forefront of agentic AI in European banking before the rest of the market even knows it exists.

Research impact. If your work deserves a paper, we publish it. The lab has active publications on arXiv. This is not a research lab—but research is not ruled out.

Competitive compensation. Receive a highly competitive salary with performance-based bonuses that will motivate you to continue growing with us.

Financial benefits. Benefit from preferential banking conditions, special interest rates on loans, life insurance, and much more.

Your health is our priority. Through BeHealthy, our global wellness program, we promote holistic well-being.

We know that family is everything. That's why we offer childcare support and family programs adapted to every stage of life.

Always by your side. Access Santander Contigo, our program for employees and their families that offers legal, emotional, and administrative advisory services.

Additional benefits. Gym/WellHub membership, medical centers in some of our facilities, meal assistance, parking, shuttle service from various points in Madrid, as well as exclusive discounts and offers for Santander employees.

And this is just the beginning: we will tell you more when you join!

We are here to keep you motivated, help you reach your goals, and celebrate your progress every step of the way.

Infrastructure & DevOps Lead (Platform & Enablement)Country: Spain

Santander (www.santander.com) is evolving from a global, high-impact brand into a technology-driven organization, and our people are at the center of this journey. Together, we are driving a customer-centric transformation that values bold thinking, innovation, and the courage to challenge what is possible.

This is more than a strategic shift. It is an opportunity for proactive professionals to grow, learn, and make a real difference.

Our mission is to contribute to helping more people and businesses thrive. We adopt a strong risk culture, and all our professionals, at all levels, are expected to adopt a proactive and responsible approach to risk management.

Our Chief Data & Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAIO) division is creating a world-class AI and Data team to make a difference in the lives of more than 170 million people worldwide, through one of the largest banks in the world.

We are carrying out one of the largest transformations in our history, and technology is at the heart of our strategy. Join our team to be part of one of the most important technological projects for the financial sector globally.

Chief Data & Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAIO) is looking for an Infrastructure & DevOps Lead based in Madrid.

You will design and operate the cloud infrastructure and deployment processes for the digital twin, ensuring automated, secure, traceable, and resilient deliveries.

We are shaping our way of working through innovation, cutting-edge technology, collaboration, and the freedom to explore new ideas. To succeed in this role, you will be responsible for:

• Designing and maintaining backend and front-end continuous integration and deployment pipelines.; Ensuring that no change reaches production without passing its quality gates: tests, coverage, type checking, and security analysis (SAST, dependencies, images).; Defining a branching and release strategy in which publishing is always an explicit and traceable decision, never a side effect.
• Designing and operating infrastructure on AWS: containers (ECS/Fargate), managed databases (Aurora PostgreSQL), web application storage and distribution, networking, and IAM.; Managing infrastructure as code and maintaining consistent development, pre-production, and production environments.; Optimizing platform cost, performance, and capacity.
• Managing secrets and configuration per environment with managed services, without credentials in repositories.; Applying least privilege to human and service access to production environments.; Coordinating with Cybersecurity for vulnerability scanning and the remediation of images and dependencies.
• Implementing monitoring, centralized logging, alerts, and service health dashboards.; Defining SLOs, on-call rotations, and incident response procedures, with blameless post-mortems.; Ensuring the auditability of access and operations on production data.
• Providing teams with templates, environments, and documentation to deploy autonomously and securely.; Accompanying development teams and code agents in best practices for build, test, and release.

Our people are our greatest strength. Every person brings unique perspectives that make us stronger as a team and as an organization. We are helping teams go further by valuing who they are and empowering what they contribute.