Cloud Operations Engineer

The engineer will support reliable, secure and efficient operation of public-cloud infrastructure and cloud-native

applications. The position combines production operations, automation, observability, incident response and

collaboration with technical teams based in China.

Key responsibilities

• Own day-to-day operation, maintenance and technical governance of public-cloud infrastructure, including

containers, virtual machines, storage and networking.

• Maintain the stability, security and standardisation of cloud platforms, databases, middleware and business

applications.

• Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting controlled and repeatable software releases.

• Operate and maintain Kubernetes-based, containerised and cloud-native applications in production environments.

• Build and maintain monitoring, dashboards, logging and alerting; investigate incidents and perform root-cause

analysis.

• Support production releases, troubleshoot performance or resource bottlenecks, and implement preventive

improvements.

• Collaborate daily in Mandarin with technical teams in China to implement common infrastructure and operational

standards.

• Support application migration, architecture optimisation, resource planning and cloud-cost optimisation.

• Ensure operations comply with applicable European data-protection and privacy requirements.

• Participate occasionally in an on-call rotation for urgent production incidents.

• At least 3 years of relevant experience in SRE, DevOps, cloud operations or a closely related role.

• Strong hands-on knowledge of Linux and a good understanding of TCP/IP, DNS and HTTP/HTTPS.

• Practical experience operating and maintaining Kubernetes in production environments.

• Experience with observability technologies such as Prometheus and Grafana.

• Experience designing, configuring or maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines.

• Proficiency in at least one scripting language, preferably Python or Shell/Bash.

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• Strong troubleshooting skills and experience handling production incidents.

• Understanding of GDPR and European data-protection requirements.

• Fluent Mandarin Chinese and professional working proficiency in English.

• Ability to work primarily onsite in Madrid, or willingness to relocate there.