Platform Lead – Starburst Enterprise & Data Platform

Talent; España; Hybrid; EUR 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent is seeking a hands-on Platform Lead to own a production Starburst Enterprise platform in a hybrid role (2-3 days onsite in Barcelona or remote within Spain).

You will stay technically hands-on while leading a small 2-3 engineer team, managing upgrades, incident response, Kubernetes-based infrastructure, and automation with Python, SQL and YAML. Strong communication and stakeholder management are essential.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Platform Lead experience with production systems.
• Experience with Starburst Enterprise, Trino or Presto.
• Experience leading a small technical team.
• Familiarity with regulated environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day operation and reliability of the Starburst platform.
• Lead incident resolution, root-cause analysis and production support.
• Manage upgrades, releases, patching and operational changes.
• Support and improve Kubernetes-based platform infrastructure.
• Automate platform tasks using Python, SQL and YAML.
• Work with external vendors on technical issues, defects and upgrades.
• Mentor engineers and improve documentation, processes and team standards.
• Support monitoring, resilience, performance and continuous improvement.
• Experience in a Platform Lead, Technical Lead or Senior Platform Engineer role.

Skills

Leadership

Incident management

Stakeholder management

Hands-on platform engineering

Tools

Starburst Enterprise

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

YAML

AWS

RDS

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Job description

Talent is seeking a hands-on Platform Lead to own a production Starburst Enterprise platform in a hybrid role (2-3 days onsite in Barcelona or remote within Spain).

You will stay technically hands-on while leading a small 2-3 engineer team, managing upgrades, incident response, Kubernetes-based infrastructure, and automation with Python, SQL and YAML. Strong communication and stakeholder management are essential.