Infrastructure & DevOps Lead (Platform & Enablement)
Banco Santander, S.A.1 day ago
Madrid, SpainStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain continuous integration and deployment pipelines for backend and front-end systems.
- Define explicit, traceable branching and release strategies with quality gates for tests, coverage, type checking, security analysis, dependencies, and images.
- Design and operate AWS infrastructure including ECS/Fargate, Aurora PostgreSQL, web application storage and distribution, networking, and IAM.
- Manage infrastructure as code and maintain consistent development, pre-production, and production environments.
- Optimize platform cost, performance, and capacity.
- Manage secrets and environment-specific configuration through managed services without storing credentials in repositories.
- Apply least-privilege access for human and service identities in production.
- Coordinate vulnerability scanning and remediation of images and dependencies with Cybersecurity.
- Implement monitoring, centralized logging, alerts, and service-health dashboards.
- Define SLOs, on-call rotations, incident-response procedures, and blameless post-incident analysis.
- Ensure auditability of access to and operations on production data.
- Provide development teams with templates, environments, and documentation for autonomous and secure deployments.
- Coach development teams and coding agents on build, test, and release best practices.
Requirements
- More than six years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
- Fluency in English and Spanish.
- Strong production experience with AWS, including ECS/Fargate or Kubernetes, RDS/Aurora, IAM, networking, S3, and CloudFront.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions and infrastructure as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK.
- Experience with containers, artifact registries, and security scanning of images and dependencies.
- Practical knowledge of observability through metrics, logs, and traces, plus incident management.
- Preferred experience operating LLM-based applications or managed AI services such as Amazon Bedrock.
- Preferred experience in banking environments with private artifact registries and restricted corporate networks.
- Preferred knowledge of Python toolchains including uv and pytest, and front-end tools including pnpm, webpack/Vite, Jest/Vitest.
- Preferred knowledge of DORA and operational resilience requirements for financial institutions.
- Ability to collaborate with development and Cybersecurity teams, prevent incidents through quality practices, and solve problems in a structured way.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with some remote days, on-site collaboration days, and flexible working hours in Madrid.
- Access to hundreds of courses and Santander Open Academy.
- Exposure to work with Anthropic, Sakana AI, AWS, CMU, ICMAT, and INRIA on agentic AI in European banking.
- Competitive compensation with performance-based bonuses; specific salary figures are not stated.
- Preferential banking conditions, special loan interest rates, and life insurance.
- BeHealthy global wellness program.
- Childcare support and family programs.
- Santander Contigo legal, emotional, and administrative advisory services for employees and families.
- Gym or WellHub membership, medical centers at some facilities, meal assistance, parking, shuttle service from several Madrid locations, and employee discounts.
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About Banco Santander, S.A.
Banco Santander, S.A. is a global bank providing retail and commercial banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth management, insurance, and payments for individuals, SMEs, corporates, and public institutions. Founded in 1857 and headquartered in Boadilla del Monte (Madrid), it operates across Europe and the Americas through local subsidiaries and digital brands like Openbank, and is publicly traded, including on the New York Stock Exchange.