Senior Cloud/Platform Engineer

The Senior Cloud / Platform Engineer at Astrafy is a technical leader who bridges the gap between complex infrastructure and developer productivity. They move beyond simple resource provisioning to design robust, secure, and scalable cloud ecosystems, ensuring long-term maintainability and operational elegance at an architectural level. Their deep experience allows them to foresee infrastructure bottlenecks, mitigate security risks, and ensure the long-term maintainability of cloud-native solutions.

As a trusted technical advisor, they lead complex discussions with clients and prospects, translating business challenges into efficient technical roadmaps and taking ultimate responsibility for the quality of the platforms we deliver.

Responsibilities

The main responsibility is to lead the technical design, estimation, and delivery of cloud platform projects. This includes:

• End-to-End Design: Leading the design of cloud architectures, ensuring they are secure, scalable, and simple to maintain.
• Project Leadership: Serving as the technical lead on projects, mentoring engineers to ensure high standards of quality and consistency.
• Pre-sales Participation: Regularly joining the sales team to assess and estimate solutions for prospects.
• Best Practices: Establishing and enforcing engineering standards and quality frameworks within the project team.
• Proactive Risk Management: Anticipating potential technical issues or scalability bottlenecks and addressing them before they surface.

Technical Expertise

• Architectural Mastery of Google Cloud: Expert-level ability to design end-to-end solutions using the Google Cloud stack (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, BigQuery), with a specific focus on large-scale migrations and modernizing legacy environments. Knowledge of AWS is a significant plus.
• Advanced Infrastructure as Code (IaC): High proficiency in Terraform, focusing on creating reusable, production-grade modules and defining the global IaC strategy for complex multi-account/project setups.
• Cloud-Native & Kubernetes: Deep expertise in Kubernetes (GKE) and container orchestration, implementing GitOps best practices (e.g., ArgoCD) to ensure declarative and automated state management.
• CI/CD & Platform Automation: Designing and optimizing workflows via GitHub Actions or GitLab CI to increase deployment speed and safety.
• Platform Engineering Solutions: Expertise in building automated environment provisioning, centralized logging/monitoring, and standardized security guardrails.
• Security & Compliance: Implementation of comprehensive security frameworks, including IAM least-privilege policies, network security (VPCs, Firewalls), and proactive vulnerability scanning.

Professional Excellence

• Strategic Advisory & Pre-sales: Ability to participate in pre-sales sessions, assessing prospect challenges, estimating solution efforts, and connecting technical decisions to broader business goals.
• Operational Elegance: A deep-seated commitment to transforming complex business requirements into clean, scalable, and highly maintainable technical architectures.
• Trusted Client Partner: Acting as a primary advisor by explaining the "why" behind technical decisions, managing risks, and building trust through clear, proactive communication.
• Technical Mentorship: A passion for upskilling the team through exemplary code reviews, pair programming, and thoughtful guidance to raise the technical bar.
• Accountability & Excellence: Taking full ownership of the technical success of a project and maintaining a focus on providing quality service to our customers

Logistics & Requirements

• Languages: Fluency in Spanish and English is required. French is a strong plus.
• Location: Primary location is Madrid, where the Spanish team meets regularely in our new office, with the large majority of the work is executed remotely.
• Travel: Willingness to travel occasionally within Europe for client meetings or industry events.

• An attractive salary package, with no blurry or hidden clauses.  Everything we offer is open-source via our Gitbook. Check it out here.

• Be part of a dynamic team that shares strong values. Check out our “Culture and Values” chart here. 

• Continuous training & development of soft and hard skills. Check out our training policy here.

• An excellent team of colleagues & regular team-building activities. Check it out here. 

• And much more. We have compiled a detailed handbook covering all you need to know about our company. Check it out here.

 Interview process

Our interview process is sequential, and should last between 1 to 3 weeks. Each stage leads to either 

• A detailed feedback in case we decide not to move forward with your application

• A move to the next interview process stage

Interview process details:

1. HR screen call ~ 30 minutes

2. Technical Take-Home challenge ~ 3-4 hours

3. Presentation of the technical  “Take home challenge”  ~ 30 minutes

Career Progression

As the team is growing, promotion to Cloud/Platform Team Lead is the next step. This path is for a Senior Architect who excels in technical leadership and demonstrates an interest in formal people management and growing a specialized team.
Average Duration: Typically 2-3 years at the Senior level, depending on scope of impact and readiness for architectural oversight and the team size.

Our mission is to help companies and individuals solve data analytics challenges across the full data journey—from ingestion to transformation to distribution—leveraging a Modern Data Stack. We find that many organizations lack the internal expertise to harness emerging data tools, and we aim to educate them while implementing powerful solutions.
We achieve this by creating a new kind of consulting company that:

• Fosters Creativity & Strategic Thinking: We embrace out-of-the-box solutions tailored to each client’s needs.
• Prioritizes Education: We ensure every project delivers both technical solutions and the knowledge to sustain them.
• Invests in People: We nurture our employees’ growth and well-being, recognizing they are our most important asset.

As a Google Cloud partner, we host most solutions on Google Cloud. We’re experts in dbt, Airflow, Airbyte, datahub and are continually exploring emerging technologies to stay ahead of market trends.