Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Gaming Innovation Group
- Location
- Hybrid (Barcelona, Catalonia)
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior Level
Posted 2 weeks ago
About the role
Gaming Innovation Group seeks a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to oversee hybrid IT infrastructure and Kubernetes environments. The role focuses on leading the infrastructure team, driving automation, and ensuring operational excellence and security compliance.
Skills
Kubernetes
Infrastructure as code
Terraform
Ansible
Cloud architecture
Linux
Windows
Leadership
Project management
CI/CD
Network administration
Storage management
Incident response
Security compliance
Vendor management
Hybrid infrastructure
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Wellbeing Package
Perks
- Hybrid Work
- Birthday Day Off
- Me Time
Full job details
Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Department: Technology
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Barcelona
Reporting To: Stefan Cirillo
Description
We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated individual to assume the role of Infrastructure Team Lead within the Shared Technology Services department. As an Infrastructure Team Lead, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing the design, implementation, and maintenance of our IT infrastructure, encompassing both cloud-based and on-premises solutions, with a specific focus on Kubernetes environments. This position requires a strategic thinker with strong leadership qualities, technical expertise, and the ability to drive the team towards operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Leadership & Mentorship: Lead, mentor, and resource the infrastructure team to foster a high-performance culture and hit project targets.
- Architecture & Planning: Design scalable hybrid roadmaps and Kubernetes-centric system architectures aligned with business goals.
- Automation & CI/CD: Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD automation using Ansible and Terraform to streamline deployments.
- Operations & Reliability: Maintain performance, monitoring, and uptime across physical servers, networks, storage, and Kubernetes clusters; manage incident response and off-hours maintenance.
- Security & Compliance: Partner with InfoSec to enforce security controls, run risk assessments, and maintain audit readiness.
- Vendor Management: Evaluate third-party tools and manage technology partner relationships to ensure strict SLA compliance.
Requirements
- Operational Leadership & Governance: Proven experience leading infrastructure or operations teams, with a track record of establishing key operational metrics (e.g., MTTR/MTTD, uptime SLAs, cloud spend optimization, and incident response frameworks).
- Project & Workflow Management: Exceptional organizational, resource-allocation, and project management skills to lead complex technical initiatives from inception to delivery.
- Hybrid Infrastructure & Automation: Deep knowledge of on-premises hardware (physical servers, SAN/NAS storage, enterprise networking) combined with expertise in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible.
- Cloud & OS Mastery: Hands-on experience architecting and administering multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) across both Linux and Windows operating systems.
Nice to have;
- Kubernetes & Cloud: CKA, CKAD, CKS, or AWS/Azure/GCP Solutions Architect.
- Linux, Systems & Virtualization: RHCSA/RHCE, LPIC, VMware VCP-DCV, or legacy MCSA/MCSE.
- Networking & IT Management: CCNA/CCNP or ITIL Foundation/Practitioner.
Benefits
- Great career development opportunities
- Hybrid working model
- International Health Insurance
- Health and Wellbeing Package (350 EUR per year)
- Birthday Day Off
- Me Time - 1 day off per year