Platform Technical Lead

Job Description

Platform Technical Lead
Madrid - hybrid
Permanent
63000 - 68000

The Background

We are partnered with a world class IT services provider based in Spain but working with clients on a global scale. They have created a new opportunity for a Platform Technical Lead to join them. They have a platform estate that needs someone with genuine technical authority to take ownership of how it runs in production. If youve spent years operating complex hybrid infrastructure and youre tired of watching the same incidents repeat themselves because nobody with real seniority ever stopped to address the root cause this is your chance to stop history repeating itself!

Heres what youll be doing:

Youll own the operational engineering standards across our platform estate. That means defining what good looks like for production readiness signing off on high risk changes and having the authority to push back when something isnt ready.

Youll reduce repeat incidents by finding and eliminating the structural weaknesses that cause them. Youll replace manual tribal knowledge with automation and codified processes. Youll manage platform capacity before it becomes a crisis rather than after.

This isnt a role focused on platform design Incident Process ownership or project delivery. Its a role where you will measure success through improved platform stability reduction in repeat platform incidents increased automation and reduced technical debt.

The successful Platform Technical Lead will have

• Previous experience in a similar role improving platform stability and reducing operational fragility
• Strong engineering judgement and experience acting as the technical authority in a live production environment
• Proven ability to implement automation at scale
• Excellent communication and teamworking skills with the ability to communicate risks and technical requirements clearly to both technical and non technical stakeholders
• Tech stack experience the role requires Microsoft Window Server Active Directory VMWare Veeam Linux operating systems advanced Scripting and Automation and Open-source technologies

If you are interested to find out more please apply for the role with an up to date copy of your CV. If you have any questions that you would like to discuss first please call Adam on.

Adam

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