Senior Platform Engineer

Greenhouse Software, Inc.; Madrid; Híbrido; EUR 70.000 - 100.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health insurance

Life insurance

Dental insurance

Wellhub access

Hybrid work model

Transportation allowance

Meal vouchers

Descripción de la vacante

Getnet Platforms is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer in Madrid to design, deploy and operate scalable, secure AWS infrastructure and managed services. You will manage Kubernetes environments (EKS) and drive automation via Infrastructure as Code, while ensuring high availability and reliability of platform services for our engineering teams.

The role requires fluent Spanish, strong DevOps experience, and a focus on observability, SLIs/SLOs, and a collaborative, high-performing culture.

Formación

• Fluent Spanish is required.
• Strong experience with AWS in production environments and scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on Kubernetes management experience, including Amazon EKS.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
• CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices experience.
• Experience with platform services such as Confluent Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Redis, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
• Ability to define and improve platform reliability with observability, SLIs and SLOs.

Responsabilidades

• Design, implement and operate scalable, secure AWS-based infrastructure for the engineering org.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters and ensure high availability and performance.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management via IaC.
• Operate and optimize shared platform services (RDS, PostgreSQL/MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch).
• Improve observability, monitoring, incident response and platform resilience.

Conocimientos

Fluent Spanish

Strong troubleshooting

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Ownership

Proactive mindset

Team collaboration

Herramientas

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Confluent Kafka

RabbitMQ

IBM MQ

Redis

Elasticsearch

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Descripción del empleo

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

As a Senior Platform Engineer, these will be some of the key activities in your day-to-day role:

• 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 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.
• 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

By joining our team, you will enjoy multiple benefits, such as:

• 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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