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Santander

Global retail and commercial banking group

DevOps Associate

Site Reliability Engineering +1Posted on Nov 6
Full-timeBoadilla del Monte, Madrid, SpainNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • More than 5 years of proven DevOps experience in complex, high-criticality environments.
  • Solid experience with GitHub Actions and advanced branching strategies.
  • Experience with declarative deployment and GitOps, including ArgoCD and Helm.
  • Experience with Kubernetes observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and Jaeger.
  • Experience centralizing logs using EFK or ELK.
  • Solid knowledge of Linux administration and troubleshooting.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code.
  • Knowledge of high availability, horizontal scalability, and resilience.
  • Experience troubleshooting critical incidents and conducting root-cause analysis.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a technical reference for delivery teams, ensuring that integration, deployment, versioning, observability, and reliability processes align with engineering best practices and promote application stability, security, and scalability.
  • Collaborate in designing, implementing, and optimizing GitHub Actions pipelines.
  • Implement automation for repetitive processes, including deployment and rollback strategies when necessary.
  • Integrate pipelines with infrastructure-provisioning processes using Infrastructure as Code practices.
  • Implement and maintain GitOps strategies using ArgoCD and Helm.
  • Ensure standardized manifests and deployment best practices in Kubernetes.
  • Support capacity control, version upgrades, and security best practices for containerized applications.
  • Support development teams in adopting best practices for branches, commits, pull requests, and code reviews.
  • Ensure adherence to the complete application lifecycle management workflow across all stages.
  • Configure and evolve monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Structure custom metrics and executive dashboards.
  • Implement distributed tracing with Jaeger and ensure integration with centralized logs using Elasticsearch and Fluentd.
  • Configure post-deployment alerts.
  • Respond to critical incidents, conduct root-cause analyses, and propose structural improvements.
  • Provide ongoing guidance and support to delivery teams.
  • Support adoption of best practices for containers, deployment, and observability.
  • Automate operational processes and promote continuous improvement.
  • Conduct proofs of concept for new DevOps tools and practices.
  • Document architectures, deployment standards, and operational procedures.

Desired Qualifications

  • Kubernetes or related cloud certifications.
  • Experience with large-scale, multi-cluster GitOps architectures.
  • Experience with service mesh.
  • Knowledge of container security.
  • Experience integrating CI/CD with infrastructure-provisioning processes.
  • Practical use of AI tools to increase productivity.
  • Advanced English and Spanish for interaction with global teams.

About the Company

Santander

Global retail and commercial banking group

Santander is a global bank focusing on retail and commercial banking in Europe and the Americas, serving individuals and SMEs with regional franchises and a broad consumer finance arm, plus a Corporate & Investment Banking division for multinational clients. It uses its Gravity cloud platform to migrate core banking and rapidly deploy digital services such as Openbank across markets, combining fintech-style agility with a bank's balance sheet. The bank differentiates itself by marrying a large retail footprint with global CIB capabilities under the One Santander verticals model to boost efficiency and cross-border revenue. Its goals include improving returns on tangible equity and financing the green economy through sustainable finance and renewable energy projects.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Boadilla del Monte, Spain
Founded
1902

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