DevOps / Linux Engineer

MIGx AG; Madrid; Híbrido; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A global consulting company is seeking a Research Computing Engineer based in Madrid. This hands-on role focuses on defining best practices, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and developing cloud-native solutions. Ideal candidates have extensive experience with GCP, Python, and DevOps practices, alongside a strong commitment to supporting scientific research. The job offers a hybrid work model and an excellent compensation package.

Servicios

Hybrid work model

Excellent compensation package

Attractive social benefits package

25 holiday days per year

Free English classes

Career development opportunities

Employee-centric culture

Training programmes

Formación

• Deep experience in GCP preferred especially with BigQuery and Cloud Run.
• Broad DevOps experience, including containerisation and CI/CD.
• Deep Python and shell scripting experience.

Responsabilidades

• Collaborate with scientists on big data and high-performance workflows.
• Develop and optimise CI/CD pipelines in GitHub and Azure DevOps.
• Develop and maintain cloud-native solutions on GCP.
• Write clean, maintainable Python code and shell scripts.
• Troubleshoot issues across the stack.
• Teach good infrastructure-as-code practices.

Conocimientos

Deep experience in GCP

Broad DevOps experience

Deep Python and shell scripting experience

Strong Java experience

3+ years of Terraform experience

Deep experience with HPC workflows

Nextflow pipeline development

English proficiency (B2+)

Herramientas

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

GitHub

Azure DevOps

BigTable

Descripción del empleo

About MIGx

MIGx is a global consulting company with an exclusive focus on the healthcare and life science industries, with their particularly demanding requirements on quality and regulatory aspects. We have been managing challenges and solving problems for our clients in the areas of compliance, business processes and many others.

MIGx interdisciplinary teams from Switzerland, Spain and Georgia have been taking care of projects in the fields of M&A, Integration, Application, Data Platforms, Processes, IT management, Digital transformation, Managed services and compliance.

Project Description

You will act as a center of excellence, defining standards and best practices for research computing, developing standard tooling, and migrating existing codebases to standard models.

You will work together with research scientists, providing them with scalable, secure, and efficient solutions to hard and onerous software engineering problems, allowing the scientists to concentrate on science, rather than things like service integration, containerization, database optimization, and cloud ops. You will partner with data and analytics platform team, ever improving the capabilities of the infrastructure to support research use cases.

This is a hands‑on role for people who enjoy untangling and re‑engineering complex code bases, making hard integrations easy, and making other people’s lives easier.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with scientists and informaticians on the development and upkeep of big data and high‑performance workflows, especially using Nextflow and BigTable.
• Develop and optimise CI/CD pipelines in GitHub and Azure DevOps.
• Develop and maintain cloud‑native solutions, principally on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with a minor in Azure.
• Write clean, maintainable Python code and shell scripts to automate infrastructure tasks.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues across the stack, from cloud services to local environments.
• Develop, promulgate, and teach good infrastructure‑as‑code practices and DevOps standards.
• Work in concert with infrastructure engineers to improve platform capabilities in the interests of research.
• Adapt to new scientific domains and new technologies, producing best practices as you go.

Requirements - Must have

• Deep experience in GCP preferred especially with BigQuery and Cloud Run; Azure or AWS experience as a plus, especially in automation.
• Broad DevOps experience, including containerisation, CI/CD (GitHub Actions preferred, Azure DevOps nice to have).
• Deep Python and shell scripting experience. Strong Java experience highly desired.
• 3+ years of Terraform experience.
• Deep experience with HPC workflows; familiarity with HPC‑to‑cloud migrations highly desired.
• GCP BigQuery optimisation a plus.
• Nextflow pipeline development and deployment experience highly desired.

Requirements - Nice to have

• Experience in Life Science.

Languages

• English: B2+
• Local language.

What we offer

• Hybrid work model and flexible working schedule that would suit night owls and early birds.
• Excellent compensation package.
• Attractive social benefits package.
• 25 holiday days per year.
• Free English classes.
• Possibilities of career development and the opportunity to shape the company’s future.
• An employee‑centric culture directly inspired by employee feedback – your voice is heard, and your perspective encouraged.
• Different training programmes to support your personal and professional development.
• Work in a fast‑growing, international company.
• Friendly atmosphere and supportive management team.