🚀 Senior SRE / Cloud & Automation Engineer (AWS, Kubernetes)
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inITium HR
- 📍 Location: Barcelona
- 📅 Posted: Oct 28, 2025
We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for a market research company based in Barcelona.
Their Platforms Team is a diverse and dynamic group focused on crafting and maintaining highperformance platforms, primarily leveraging the power of Amazon Web Services and Kubernetes. They're all about growth there – from dedicated Friday training sessions and daily collaborative pair-programming to shadowing opportunities and access to popular e-learning resources, we truly believe in your development.
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll be a key contributor, diving into:
Architectural Vision: Shaping the design of our next-gen platforms.
Performance & Reliability: Enhancing the robustness and efficiency of our current systems.
Security Integration: Embedding security best practices early in the development lifecycle, thinking "shift-left" in a DevSecOps way.
Automation: Automating routine tasks to eliminate TOIL, boost efficiency and streamline operations.
You'll also play a role in incident response and post-mortem analysis, helping us learn and continuously improve.
Beyond the tech, this company offers:
Private health insurance with medical network or reimbursement (50% covered for the employee).
Flexible compensation options : restaurant, transportation, childcare.
Flexible working hours : arrival between 8:00 and 10:00, departure between 17:00 and 19:00. On Fridays, a shorter workday with departure between 14:00 and 15:00.
Hybrid model : 2 days in the office and the rest working from home.
Fresh fruit available in the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
High-quality coffee always available.
You'll join a stable, experienced team of engineers, supporting internal software development teams. This means not only maintaining existing applications and platforms but also actively contributing to new developments.
Also, you will participate in weekly, paid, and easy on-call rotations..
Full disclosure: They do have “vintage” platforms, however, they operate within cloud environments and were built using Infrastructure as Code. Their newer systems leverage Kubernetes and relevant AWS services.
What You Will Bring to the Team:
Our ideal Senior SRE is a seasoned systems engineer with:
Deep expertise in Linux and containerization technologies.
Proven, production-level experience with AWS.
Strong programming skills in Python or Go/Rust.
A solid grasp of modern distributed systems architectures.
Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (think ElasticSearch, Fluentd, Prometheus, OpsGenie).
The ability to enable seamless, self-service deployments through robust continuous delivery pipelines.
A foundational understanding of IT security concepts (like Penetration Testing, XSS, SQLi, OWASP Top 10).
A genuine willingness to share knowledge and continuously expand your skillset.
Bonus Points If You Have:
Production experience with Kubernetes and/or Terraform.
Familiarity with cutting-edge architectural patterns like microservices and serverless.
Exposure to AWS Billing and cloud cost optimization.
Experience in blue teaming and or pentesting.
Programming skills in Go or Rust.
A clear understanding of the crucial distinction between observability and monitoring
Experience participating in on-call rotations for internet-facing production environments
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