Senior Data SRE / Cloud Platform Engineer

Flywire; Valencia; On-site; EUR 49,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

ESPP

Global Induction Program

Wellbeing programs

FlyBetter days off

Digital disconnect days

Talent & development programs

Job summary

Flywire is hiring a Senior SRE / Cloud Platform Engineer in Valencia, Spain. You will own, scale and secure the cloud infrastructure powering our data platforms and AI initiatives, establishing IaC best practices with Terraform across AWS and GCP.

Responsibilities include defining SLIs/SLOs, building CI/CD pipelines with GitLab and Docker/Fargate, and enabling secure, scalable environments for Airflow, dbt and streaming feeds. A strong emphasis on security and cost governance is required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE, DevOps or Cloud Platform Engineering with production cloud infra experience.
• Master-level Terraform to manage multi-account/multi-project setups in AWS and GCP.
• Experience with logging, monitoring and alerting frameworks (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch).
• Strong GitLab CI/CD pipelines and Docker, including serverless container orchestration with Fargate.

Responsibilities

• Own, scale and secure cloud infrastructure powering data platforms and AI initiatives.
• Design and deploy global cloud environments using Terraform across AWS and GCP.
• Define SLIs, SLOs and alerting to maximize uptime.
• Architect CI/CD and deployment workflows with GitLab and containers.
• Provide secure, scalable cloud environments for Airflow, dbt, Pub/Sub, Beam and related tooling.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Terraform

Observability

CI/CD

Containers

Data tooling

Tools

Terraform

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

GitLab CI/CD

Docker

Fargate

Airflow

BigQuery

PostgreSQL

Job description

• Full-time
• Compensation: EUR 49,000 - EUR 62,000 - yearly

Company Description

Are you ready to trade your job for a journey? Become a FlyMate!

Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a FlyMate. At Flywire, we’re on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments. We use our Flywire Advantage - the combination of our next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network and vertical specific software, to help our clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease - no matter where they are in the world.

What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you!

Who we are:

Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, founded a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments in education, using modern technology.

Today, we’ve digitized payments for more than 3,300+ global clients across education, healthcare, travel & B2B, covering more than 240 countries and territories and supporting over 140 currencies. And, we’re just getting started!

With over 1000+ global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 14 offices world-wide, we’re looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.

Job Description

The Opportunity:

Flywire is seeking a Senior SRE / Cloud Platform Engineer to own, scale and secure the underlying cloud infrastructure powering our high-stakes payment intelligence and data platforms. You will serve as the cloud infrastructure anchor for our data engineering and AI initiatives, establishing best practices for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD and platform reliability across AWS and GCP, reporting into the team led by our Hiring Manager, Roberto.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Lead the design, modularization and deployment of global cloud environments using Terraform across AWS and GCP, establishing enterprise-grade IaC best practices.

Platform Reliability & Observability: Define, monitor and enforce SLIs, SLOs and alerting frameworks for underlying data platforms to minimize MTTR and maximize uptime.

DevOps & CI/CD Automation: Architect robust GitLab CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration with Fargate and zero-manual-intervention deployment workflows.

Data Platform Enablement: Work with Data Engineering teams to provide secure, scalable cloud environments for Airflow, dbt, streaming feeds (Pub/Sub, Beam) and AI integrations.

Security & Cost Governance: Automate cloud access policies (RBAC/ABAC), network security and cost optimization for resource-heavy data workloads.

Qualifications

What You'll Bring:

Experience: 5+ years in SRE, DevOps or Cloud Platform Engineering, with proven experience building production cloud infrastructure at scale.

Deep Terraform Expertise: Master-level hands-on experience using Terraform to manage multi-account/multi-project setups in AWS and GCP.

Observability & Reliability: Strong experience setting up logging, monitoring and alerting frameworks (e.g. Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch).

CI/CD & Containers: Strong expertise with GitLab CI/CD pipelines and Docker, including serverless container orchestration with Fargate.

Data Context: Experience provisioning or maintaining infrastructure for data tooling (e.g. PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Snowflake, Airflow, Kafka/PubSub) and basic proficiency in Python or Bash scripting.

Location: Based within a short commutable distance of Valencia, as this role requires regular weekly hybrid presence in our office.

Additional Information

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Flying Start - Our immersive Global Induction Program
• Work with brilliant people that will keep you on your toes, learn more about their journeys by checking out #InsideFlywire on social media
• Dynamic & Global Team (we have been collaborating virtually for years!)
• Wellbeing Programs (Mental Health, Wellness)with Global FlyMates
• Be a meaningful part in our success - every FlyMate makes an impact
• Competitive time off including FlyBetter Days to volunteer in a cause you believe in
• Digital Disconnect Days!
• Great Talent & Development Programs

We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet with different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager, Peers on the team, the VP of the department, and a skills assessment. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your “go-to” person for any questions.

Flywire is an equal opportunity employer. With over 30 nationalities across 12 different offices, and diversity and inclusion at the core of our people agenda, we believe our FlyMates are our greatest asset, and we’re excited to watch our unique culture evolve with each new hire.

Flywire is an equal opportunity employer.