Senior Platform Engineer (DevOps/SRE) – Madrid
Hybrid in Madrid (3 days in the office, 2 days remote) - The office is near Atocha train station.
Salary: €65 to €70k gross/year + 10% bonus
We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join an international engineering organization in the online gaming and betting industry. You will play a key role in building and operating the core platform that supports large-scale, real-time player account systems across multiple European markets. This is a hands-on senior role where you’ll help shape platform architecture, reliability, and automation practices across engineering teams.
What we’re looking for
- 5+ years in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE or infrastructure roles
- +3 years of experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with Kafka/RabbitMQ and relational databases in production
- Experience with CI/CD design and automation-first delivery models
- Background in observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar)
- Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, security, and IaC
- Familiarity with TLS, reverse proxies, CDN concepts, and secure system design
- Hands-on mindset with modern engineering tools, including AI-assisted development
- Fluent in English
- Lead experience is a big plus
What you’ll work on
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines with strong automated quality gates
- Own and improve observability (metrics, logs, dashboards, tracing)
- Operate Kubernetes-based production environments at scale
- Manage infrastructure using IaC tools like Terraform or Pulumi
- Support production databases (RDBMS), messaging systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ), and identity services (Keycloak or similar)
- Implement and enforce security best practices (secrets, encryption, RBAC, network policies)
- Build and improve distributed systems reliability and performance
- Collaborate with engineering teams on deployment strategies and production readiness
- Automate operational processes and reduce manual work wherever possible
- Work with modern AI-assisted tools to improve delivery speed and engineering efficiency
Hybrid role based in Madrid, part of a growing international tech hub.