Platform Engineer - Scalable Infra & Secure Data Services

BIST People Working Group; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

BIST People Working Group is seeking a hands-on Platform Engineer to support the MD4SB project's technical foundation. You will design, deploy, operate, and maintain secure, scalable environments with a focus on distributed database infrastructure and platform operations.

The ideal candidate combines strong operational skills with architectural thinking and a drive to automate, document, and enforce security by design for long-term maintainability across on-premise, hybrid, or cloud-native

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Linux systems administration, including installation, configuration, troubleshooting, patching, monitoring, and service management.
• Interest in defining long-term platform architecture, operational practices, automation standards, and security-by-design principles.
• Solid understanding of infrastructure, networking, and systems architecture, including DNS, TLS certificates, firewalls, load balancing, routing basics, VPNs or secure remote access, and storage fundamentals.
• Experience with virtualization platforms, such as VMware, Proxmox, OpenStack, Hyper-V, or similar technologies.
• Security awareness and experience applying infrastructure security best practices, including: system hardening, access control, privilege management, patch management, logging and auditability, backup validation, and secure configuration of services.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, operate, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available environments.
• Focus on distributed database infrastructure and platform operations.
• Automate recurring tasks and document procedures to promote security, scalability, monitoring, and long-term maintainability.
• Build and maintain reliable infrastructure and establish good practices for security and observability.

Skills

Linux admin

Platform architecture

Security by design

Automation

Documentation

Monitoring & observability

Networking basics

Backup & recovery

Tools

VMware

Proxmox

OpenStack

Hyper-V

Ansible

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

BIST People Working Group is seeking a hands-on Platform Engineer to support the MD4SB project's technical foundation. You will design, deploy, operate, and maintain secure, scalable environments with a focus on distributed database infrastructure and platform operations.

The ideal candidate combines strong operational skills with architectural thinking and a drive to automate, document, and enforce security by design for long-term maintainability across on-premise, hybrid, or cloud-native