Senior DevOps Platform Engineer (Hybrid)

Company Description

Colliers is a leading diversified professional services and investment management company. With operations in 68 countries, our 22,000 enterprising people work collaboratively to provide expert advice to maximize the potential of property and real assets to accelerate the success of our clients, our investors and our people.

We are at the forefront of the real estate industry, leading the way and backed by an exceptional record of success. We are building for our future – and yours.

We strive to build our business at a competitive pace by augmenting internal growth with smart strategic acquisitions that increase market share, expand service offerings and extend our geographic reach for the benefit of our clients and shareholders.

For more than 29 years, Colliers has created value for shareholders that has resulted in superior returns and industry growth. Our people also own significant equity in our business, which brings pride of ownership to everything we do. We are passionate, take personal responsibility and always do what's right for our clients, people and communities.

Job Description

Purpose of Position

We are looking for an experienced and passionate Senior DevOps Platform Engineer for our newly established Technology Hub in Madrid. This is a unique opportunity to become part of the founding team that helps shape the culture, practices, and technical direction. Working in a hybrid model (remote & onsite), you will enjoy significant freedom to innovate and influence the future of one of the world’s largest commercial real estate companies. With the leadership of the Global Technology Hub coming from a background of technology startups, you will benefit from a fast-paced learning environment, high visibility of your contributions and opportunities to shape processes, culture and technology strategies. At the same time, you take advantage of the stability, resources, and reach of a successful global company.

Guided by our global digital strategy, the Madrid Hub collaborates closely with international teams to deliver world-class technology solutions that power the future of commercial real estate.

As Senior DevOps Platform Engineer, you specialize in container technologies, cloud-native architecture and automation and will play a key role in designing, scaling, and evolving the platform that powers our engineering organization.

You will work across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure, enabling consistent, secure, and developer friendly environments for application teams. You will contribute to global products and platforms that serve both internal and external customers in Commercial Real Estate across multiple regions. Working closely with international Product, Engineering, DevOps, Data, QA and Architecture teams, you will ensure delivery excellence, engineering quality and great consumer experience.

You are a hands-on problem-solver with strong design principles, who thrives in a collaborative and agile environment.  As a senior member of the DevOps function, you will set technical direction, drive best practices. and mentor junior engineers while building solutions with real business impact.

Essential Functions and Job Duties

Platform Architecture and Cloud Engineering

• Architect and maintain enterprise-grade Kubernetes platforms (AKS, GKE) with a focus on scalability, multitenancy, and global reliability.
• Define and own container lifecycle practices, including building pipelines, registries, vulnerability scanning and runtime policies.
• Lead the implementation of Infrastructure-as-Code solutions (Terraform/OpenTofu), ensuring automation, repeatability, and compliance across cloud environments.

Automation and Continuous Delivery

• Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines to support containerized workloads and cloud-native services.
• Be in charge of GitOps best practices and advanced deployment strategies.
• Build and maintain self-service tools to empower product and engineering teams while reducing operational overhead.

Security, Governance and Observability

• Establish security standards and policies for containerized environments (RBAC, secrets management, admission controllers, scanning)
• Partner with Information Security and Infrastructure teams to embed compliance controls into the platform.
• Implement advanced observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, Datadog)
• Drive culture of test-first development with unit, integration and performance testing
• Support root cause analysis and resolution of production issues, ensuring high reliability and uptime
• Contribute to ongoing platform refactoring and modernization efforts.

Global Collaboration

• Act as a senior technical advisor to engineering leadership on platform and DevOps strategy
• Work closely with Engineering teams to optimize build pipelines, observability and deployment automation.
• Ensure compliance with global standards, information security policies and regulatory requirements
• Collaborate regularly with Infrastructure Teams, especially Cloud Engineering, to align on requirements, clarify priorities and deliver business value iteratively.

Qualifications

Required Skills/Experience:

• 5-8+ years of experience in DevOps, platform or cloud engineering, with a focus on containers and distributed systems.
• Proven expertise with Kubernetes, Docker and enterprise-scale container orchestration.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of GCP and Azure, including networking. IAM, storage and monitoring.
• Deep experience with Infrastructure-as Code (Terraform) and automation frameworks.
• Track record of designing, operating and scaling development platform in distributed, multi-team settings.
• Excellent understanding of security and compliance in cloud and containerized environments.
• Agile Development experience (Scrum/Kanban), including story estimation, code reviews and pair programming.
• Experience working in distributed or remote teams and using tools such as Jira, GitHub, Miro and Azure DevOps.
• Solid understanding of performance optimization.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, fluent in English and Spanish.
• Understanding of secure development practices and compliance frameworks (e.g. ISO27001, GDPR, SOC2).

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Experience with service mesh architectures and advanced networking
• Knowledge of multi-cloud strategies and hybrid-cloud solutions.
• Familiarity with FinOps best practices and cost-optimization in large-scale cloud environments.
• Experience in working in a global, multi-cultural organization.
• Experience with observability tools (e.g. Sentry, Lighthouse etc.)
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, growing tech environment and to foster change in larger organizations.

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