It Platform Engineer - Pozuelo De Alarcón

In this role you will build, operate and standardize a Kubernetes platform across on-premises and cloud environments to empower development teams. You’ll work with the Infra Engineering team to deliver a scalable, secure platform and drive automation and upskilling of stakeholders. You’ll collaborate with Core Cloud and IT Ops to ensure alignment and visibility across countries. This is a critical, strategic role focused on platform governance, reliability and ongoing improvement.

• Hybrid model: work from home and Madrid office
• Lunch provided at office canteen
• Dynamic and vibrant office environment
• Learning and training programs
• International stakeholder projects
• Guide Kubernetes platform implementations (on-prem RKE2/VMware and cloud EKS/AKS) and best practices
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define requirements and plan platform initiatives
• Design and administer multi-environment Kubernetes clusters (RKE2, EKS, AKS) and plan migrations
• Define platform roadmaps, timelines and resource needs, manage scope and risks
• Establish governance and security policies (RBAC, network policies, image scanning, hardening)
• Facilitate stakeholder communication and regular status updates
• Monitor and optimize resource usage for project efficiency
• Document lessons learned and best practices to improve future initiatives
• Define target architecture with Platform Tech Leads and support interconnectivity
• Promote IaC/GitOps for automation and scalability
• Contribute to cloud-native deployment patterns and workload migration strategies
• Enhance observability with OpenTelemetry and related tooling
• Review and improve platform governance with global architecture team
• Support enterprise-wide transformation with VMware and cloud specialists
• Champion DevOps culture and mentor platform operations team members
• 5+ years of Kubernetes production experience (on-prem and cloud)
• Hands-on administration of RKE2 on VMware vSphere (node lifecycle, etcd, CNI, storage classes)
• Experience with AWS EKS and Azure AKS (cluster provisioning, IAM/RBAC, upgrades)
• Knowledge of VMware vSphere/vCenter as underlying infra
• IaC and GitOps tooling experience (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, ArgoCD or Flux)
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• Secrets management and vaulting (e.g., CyberArk Conjur)
• On-call availability for platform support
• Container networking and security knowledge (CNI, Ingress, service mesh, network policies) and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Scripting (Bash, Python, Go)
• Familiar with AI tooling concepts for self-service automation
• Certifications: CKA, VMware VCP-DCV, AWS or Azure Admin/Solutions Expert
• Experience with Scrum/Agile/Kanban
• Knowledge of microservices and event-driven architectures (plus)
• Self-motivation and leadership
• Clear communication and stakeholder management
• Collaborative and adaptable to cross-functional teams
• Rancher multi-cluster management

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