Senior Platform Engineer

Getnet Platforms; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Hybrid work model

Meal/transportation benefits

Growth programs

Job summary

Getnet Platforms, part of Santander Payment Solutions, seeks a Senior Platform Engineer in Madrid to design and operate scalable AWS-based infrastructure and manage Kubernetes ecosystems. The role emphasizes reliability, observability, and collaboration with product engineering teams.

Required are strong AWS and EKS experience, IaC (Terraform), CI/CD, and Fluent English and Spanish speakers. The role offers a hybrid work model with on-site presence in Madrid and benefits as listed.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with AWS production environments.
• Hands-on Kubernetes management with EKS.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices experience.
• Experience with Confluent Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Redis, Elasticsearch.
• Experience defining platform reliability via observability & SLOs.
• Knowledge of internal developer platforms and SRE practices (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and operate scalable, secure and resilient AWS-based infrastructure.
• Manage and evolve Kubernetes clusters, including EKS.
• Automate infrastructure and lifecycle management via IaC and platform engineering practices.
• Operate and optimize shared platform services (RDS, PostgreSQL/MySQL, MongoDB, Confluent Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch).
• Lead improvements in observability, monitoring, incident response and resilience.
• Define and track SLIs/SLOs for platform services and drive availability improvements.
• Build self-service capabilities to improve developer experience.
• Contribute to platform architecture and roadmap with product engineering teams.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

CI/CD

Confluent Kafka

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Observability

Prometheus

Grafana

English (Fluent)

Spanish (Fluent)

Tools

Terraform

Amazon EKS

Job description

ABOUT GETNET

Getnet Platforms is part of Santander Payment Solutions and brings together a set of key platforms within Santander's global payments technology ecosystem. It includes software-as-a-service capabilities across the entire payments value chain, such as account-to-account processing, FX, SWIFT connectivity, fraud management and card processing infrastructure.

It enables financial institutions, non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) and payment service providers (PSPs) to operate, scale and evolve their payment capabilities across multiple rails, markets and regulatory environments, without the need to rebuild their core systems.

Proven at scale, including within Santander itself, these platforms provide a modular foundation that complements Getnet's global payment capabilities to support client growth through payments.

WHY JOIN OUR TEAM

If you want to shape the future of financial solutions, this is the place!

At Getnet Platforms, your work connects to something bigger, creating a real impact across global teams and markets for our clients and communities.

Our people are our greatest strength. We combine growth opportunities, strong team connections, and a culture that supports your well-being and sense of belonging, so you can develop, contribute, and feel valued. With flexibility and autonomy built into how we work, you'll have the space to focus, collaborate, and perform at your best.

Here, your impact matters, your growth is supported, and your experience is designed to help you thrive.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Design, implement and operate scalable, secure and resilient AWS-based infrastructure that powers our engineering organization.


• Manage and evolve Kubernetes clusters, including EKS, to ensure high availability, performance and operational reliability.


• Automate infrastructure and standardize provisioning and lifecycle management through Infrastructure as Code and platform engineering practices.


• Operate and optimize shared platform services, including RDS, PostgreSQL/MySQL, MongoDB, Confluent Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ and Elasticsearch.


• Lead improvements in observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response and platform resilience, including root cause analysis and preventive actions.


• Define and track SLIs and SLOs for platform services while driving improvements in availability, performance, fault tolerance and disaster recovery readiness.


• Build self-service capabilities and improve the developer experience by reducing friction in infrastructure provisioning and operations.


• Contribute to platform architecture, technical strategy and roadmap decisions while collaborating closely with product engineering teams and mentoring other engineers.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

We are in search of a Senior Platform Engineer to join our team in Boadilla del Monte, with the following qualifications and background.

Professional Experience

• Strong experience working with AWS in production environments, designing and operating scalable cloud infrastructure. (Required)


• Significant hands-on experience managing Kubernetes environments, with experience in Amazon EKS. (Required)


• Experience operating distributed systems and stateful services at scale in high-availability or mission-critical environments. (Required)


• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, with Terraform preferred. (Required)


• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices. (Required)


• Experience operating messaging, event-driven and shared platform services such as Confluent Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Redis, Elasticsearch, relational databases and NoSQL databases. (Required)


• Experience defining and improving platform reliability through observability, monitoring, incident response, SLIs and SLOs. (Required)


• Experience with platform engineering models, internal developer platforms, SRE practices, regulated environments or cloud cost optimization. (Preferred)

Languages

• Fluent English. (Required)


• Fluent Spanish. (Required)

Hard Skills

Required

• AWS, including production cloud infrastructure and cloud-native architectures.


• Kubernetes, with Amazon EKS experience.


• Infrastructure as Code, with Terraform preferred.


• Cloud networking and security fundamentals.


• Confluent Kafka, RabbitMQ and IBM MQ.


• Relational and NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL and MongoDB.


• Observability and monitoring, including tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK or Datadog.

Preferred

• Platform engineering and internal developer platform practices.


• Security best practices and compliance frameworks.


• Cloud cost optimization techniques.


• Incident management and SRE practices.

Soft Skills

Required

• Strong troubleshooting, analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.


• Strong communication and collaboration skills.


• Ownership and accountability.


• Proactive mindset and ability to challenge the status quo constructively.


• Ability to balance operational stability with innovation.

Preferred

• Mentorship mindset and ability to support and elevate other engineers.


• Product mindset focused on enabling engineering teams through reliable internal platforms.

Getnet Platforms is proud of being an organization where there are equal opportunities regardless of age, gender, disability, civil status, race, religion or sexual orientation. We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible application process for all candidates.

OUR OFFER AND BENEFITS

• We care for your well-being, so you will have health insurance, life insurance, dental insurance, annual health care, and access to Wellhub.


• We promote flexibility with a hybrid and collaborative model; the selected candidate must be ready to work 60% on-site.


• We aim to boost your growth with access to self-development programs.


• We aim to make your workdays more accessible, so you will have transportation allowance and meal voucher/food voucher.


• Getnet Platforms is part of Santander Group, one of the world's leading financial groups, with a presence in more than 22 countries.

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