Staff DevOPS Engineer (f/m/d) (EN) – Alcobendas

We offer you the opportunity to join the leading Spanish company in the IT sector, with more than 25 years of experience and one of the most solid track records as a provider of technological solutions for companies.

We are a growing company with more than 400 employees and offices in Logroño, Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Bilbao and Valencia.

Since August 2013, we have been part of the IONOS Group, Europe’s leading digitalisation partner for small and medium-sized companies.

In short, we are a multicultural team that’s passionate about technology, bringing our professional experience from over a dozen countries: Germany, Argentina, Spain, the United States, France, the Philippines, Italy, Poland, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Romania…

Our department’s vision is to build a Data-Driven IONOS Group. Our mission is to connect AI and BI, evolve our platforms, and empower our customers. As the central provider of the BI platform for Corporate, CTO topics, and state-of-the-art AI solutions, we support data-driven decision-making all across the IONOS Group.

Currently, we are building our new cloud Big Data platform completely based on the IONOS cloud infrastructure. This means you will work with up-to-date, non-commercial technologies and have the unique opportunity to operate on our own internal cloud ecosystem, completely independent of the usual hyperscalers (AWS/GCP).

Tasks

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you won’t just manage namespaces or isolated applications; you will haveFull Ownershipand end-to-end responsibility for the platform operational stability. Your main tasks will include:

• Platform Operations & Ownership: Actively help shape, deploy, and maintain our cloud Big Data platform infrastructure, taking full responsibility for the operation of our technical data processes.
• L2/L3 Application Support: Serve as the first point of contact for internal data engineering teams. You will troubleshoot process failures, investigate why a data pipeline failed, and optimize platform performance.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Discuss, gather basic requirements, and implement additional platform services in close coordination with internal stakeholders across 11 divisions.
• Agile Collaboration: Participate actively in team processes, working within 2-week sprints where the functional team develops a common goal, working independently while keeping the team aligned .
• Continuous Improvement: Continuously and independently develop operational process definitions and platform optimization setups.
• System Evolution: Take over system responsibilities with a clear growth path towards Product Ownership of the platform.

We are looking for a “Plug n’ Play” Senior Engineer-someone who brings high technical expertise combined with the mindset of a curious explorer and a strong problem-solving attitude.

• Practical experience with Python programming and related frameworks.
• Linux Foundation certifications regarding Kubernetes (e.g., CKA/CKAD).
• Experience with highly secure environments (e.g., handling sensitive data or regulated sectors).

We are NOT looking for (Exclusion Criteria):

• Profiles with a pure Software Engineering focus (e.g., long-time software developers whose DevOps experience is limited to writing automation scripts for a dev team). We need an operations/infrastructure specialist.
• Candidates with exclusive, closed experience in AWS only. We value the flexibility to understand alternative cloud-native architectures.
• Candidates lacking a strong L2/L3 support mindset or motivation to directly solve user/colleague issues.

At Arsys we value diversity and welcome all applications regardless of, for example, gender, nationality, ethnic or social origin, religion, disability, age, as well as sexual orientation and identity, physical characteristics, marital status or any other irrelevant factor subject to applicable law.