Team Lead IT Operations

About the role

Our client is a leading European provider of market data and financial software, with 25+ years of experience serving financial market professionals. As they open a new Madrid office, they're growing their local team and looking for a Team Lead IT Operations to take charge of a small, hands-on infrastructure and operations team.

You'll inherit a running, established team, stepping in to get close to both the technology and the people, keeping operations running at a high standard while helping the team grow. The environment spans Linux and Windows, with hands-on Linux experience essential and Windows a strong plus. Cloud infrastructure runs primarily on AWS and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The team operates on-call coverage and works closely with a Germany-based operations team on shared technology and platforms.

What you'll do

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of 5 to 6 operations engineers, while remaining actively involved in the technical work

• Coordinate the team's on-call rotation and work with the German Operations team to ensure effective 24/7 coverage

• Act as the senior technical and operational escalation point for complex infrastructure and major production incidents

• Drive automation and standardization, reducing manual operational work through scripting, configuration management, and Infrastructure-as-Code

• Continuously improve monitoring, observability, and alerting across services and infrastructure

• Coordinate closely with the Germany-based Operations team on shared technology and cross-team alignment

• Own cloud infrastructure operations, with a strong focus on AWS and OCI

• Drive service delivery against SLAs/KPIs across incident, request, problem, and change management

• Use incident and operational data to identify recurring problems, improve reliability, and reduce operational toil. Maintain and improve documentation, runbooks, and standard operating procedures

• Champion compliance and security in daily operations: vulnerability management, incident response, business continuity, and disaster recovery

• Drive lifecycle management and migration of end-of-life infrastructure and operating systems onto supported platforms

• Build relationships with key stakeholders across IT, development, and the growing Information Security function

  
  

Who you are

• Strong hands-on experience in Linux environments; Windows experience is a plus

• Solid experience leading or coordinating an IT operations/infrastructure team in a hands-on, player-coach role, including troubleshooting complex Linux, cloud, container, and infrastructure issues alongside the team

• Good understanding of networking, operating systems, infrastructure, and production application dependencies

• Experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS; OCI experience is a strong plus

• Practical experience operating containerized environments and Kubernetes, including troubleshooting workloads, deployments, and platform issues

• Strong automation mindset, with scripting and configuration/infrastructure automation experience using tools such as Bash, Python, Ansible, Puppet, and/or Terraform

• Experience with monitoring and observability across metrics, logs, alerting, and dashboards, using technologies such as Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, and Zabbix

• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps ways of working

• Practical understanding of ITSM/ITIL practices, particularly incident, problem, and change management

• A strong sense of ownership and accountability, with a mentality to get things done and drive issues through to resolution

• Curiosity and a willingness to challenge existing approaches constructively

• Awareness of compliance and security obligations in an operational environment

• Fluent business English

What's on offer

• Salary: EUR 65,000 to 70,000 gross per year

• Private health insurance and employee assistance

• 25 days holiday per year

• Remote work: one day a week from home, with flexible hours where possible, plus up to four weeks per year working from a different location

• Learning and development support, ongoing conversations with your manager, and knowledge-sharing opportunities

• An international team with a startup mindset, with the chance to help shape a new office culture

Location: Madrid, Spain. Willing to relocate is fine, provided you have permanent work eligibility in Spain.

How to apply: Please submit your CV in English.

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