Senior CloudOps Engineer

October 20, 2026

Senior

Barcelona

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Senior CloudOps Engineer role within the Platform Operations group of a global healthtech business, based in Barcelona. The position owns cloud operations across AWS accounts, CI/CD reliability, FinOps cost optimization, database operations and observability for a global SaaS platform. The role also covers security, compliance and mentoring of junior engineers

Responsibilities

Lead day-to-day operational support across AWS accounts (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM)
Own lifecycle management activities, including patching, scaling, performance tuning, and backup strategy
Serve as an escalation point for major incidents; lead root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews
Improve operational resilience through automation, standardization, and proactive monitoring
Architect improvements to CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) to increase reliability and reduce deployment friction
Drive automation of repetitive operational tasks using Python, Bash, or similar
Partner with engineering teams to streamline environment provisioning and deployments
Mentor CloudOps engineers on CI/CD patterns and operational guardrails
Lead cloud cost-efficiency initiatives across compute, storage, data services, and networking
Analyze usage trends and guide right-sizing, modernization, and storage tiering strategies
Partner with engineering and FinOps teams to forecast cloud spend and identify optimization opportunities
Drive accountability by defining and tracking cost KPIs across services
Lead operational ownership of MongoDB and/or RDS Aurora (performance tuning, scaling, failover, backup/restore validation)
Diagnose and resolve complex database issues impacting availability or performance
Guide application teams on efficient usage patterns for MongoDB/RDS Aurora
Contribute to improvements in backup strategy, disaster recovery, and data resiliency
Design and enhance monitoring, alerting, and dashboards (CloudWatch, Grafana, Splunk, OpenTelemetry)
Build and maintain runbooks, SLOs, and operational playbooks
Improve alert quality, signal-to-noise ratio, and overall response processes
Champion observability adoption across teams to reduce MTTR and improve uptime
Enforce strong IAM governance, least-privilege access, and secure operational patterns
Lead patching, vulnerability remediation, and evidence collection for compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA)
Partner with Security to maintain audit readiness and reduce operational risk
Identify control gaps and contribute to continuous compliance automation

Requirements

5–8+ years in CloudOps, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles
Deep, hands-on experience operating AWS environments at scale (EC2, RDS, EKS, S3, CloudWatch)
Production-level expertise with MongoDB and/or RDS Aurora (operations, optimization, DR)
Strong automation and scripting capability (Python, Bash, or similar)
Hands-on experience supporting CI/CD pipelines and deployment platforms
Strong troubleshooting and performance-tuning skills across cloud, networking, and application layers
Experience with observability tooling (Datadog, CloudWatch, Grafana, Splunk, OpenTelemetry)
Ability to mentor junior engineers and lead operational improvements
Advanced Kubernetes operations experience (Amazon EKS; scaling, upgrades, troubleshooting)
Strong understanding of FinOps principles and AWS cost-management tooling
Experience with additional data technologies (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka)
Familiarity with regulated environments (HIPAA, GDPR, NIST, GxP)
Experience contributing to DR planning, failover testing, or reliability engineering programs

Conditions

Full-time contract
Unpaid leave policy, annual leave, and reduced-hours timetables
Retirement plan, long service award, health and travel insurance

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