[Hiring] SysOps Engineer @Marfeel

Role Description

As a SysOps Engineer, you'll help keep our on-premise infrastructure running smoothly. Working alongside our SysOps team, you'll support the day-to-day operation, monitoring, and automation of our systems, with a particular focus on providing on-call support to keep things available and healthy around the clock. It's a hands-on role where you'll learn from senior engineers and grow your skills across automation, databases, and infrastructure.

• Automation and Configuration:
  • Work with and help maintain our Ansible playbooks and roles, and learn to write your own.
  • Automate repetitive tasks to improve efficiency and reduce errors.
  • Help ensure consistent configuration and deployment of infrastructure components.
• Database Support:
  • Help monitor and maintain our database clusters (MongoDB, ClickHouse, KeyDB, MySQL, and others) under the guidance of senior team members.
  • Keep an eye on database performance and flag issues that affect availability and reliability.
• Monitoring and Performance:
  • Use our monitoring tools to keep an eye on the health and performance of the infrastructure.
  • Help identify performance issues and work with the team to resolve them.
• Collaboration and Support:
  • Work with development teams to support CI/CD processes.
  • Provide operational support and help troubleshoot infrastructure issues.
  • Participate in on-call rotations to support 24/7 availability (1 week on, 1 week off).

Qualifications

• At least 1 year of work experience in a technical operations, infrastructure, or systems role.
• Some exposure to infrastructure automation, ideally with Ansible, and an interest in writing clean, maintainable code.
• Comfortable writing basic scripts in a language like Bash or Python.
• Familiar with version control (Git) and an interest in CI/CD and deployment tooling.
• Solution-oriented and motivated by technical challenges.
• Curious about the open-source world, with a continuous learning mindset.
• Aware of the importance of working with other departments.
• Able to communicate with technical and non-technical people alike.
• Fluent in Spanish and an intermediate level of English.
• An international team player.

Requirements

• Exposure to NoSQL or analytical databases such as Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Prometheus, ClickHouse, or KeyDB.
• Some familiarity with web, proxy, and application servers like Nginx, Varnish, HAProxy, or Tomcat.
• Any experience with GitOps or deployment tools (ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Any development experience in a language such as Java, PHP, Go, or Rust.

Benefits

• Support product that reaches publishers and newsrooms globally.
• Option to work full remote, hybrid or office-based (if in BCN area).
• Support with home office equipment.
• Flexible hours and early finish on Fridays.
• Subsidized health insurance for you and your partner/family (Adeslas).
• Subsidized monthly plan to a large network of health and wellness centers (Wellhub).
• Transport, restaurant and kindergarten tickets (Cobee).
• Free language classes (English/Spanish).
• Open-space, light-filled and eco-conscious office with large sunny terrace (if BCN based).
• Unlimited refreshments including coffee, tea and soft drinks at the office (if BCN based).
• Loyalty vacation days.
• Access to training platforms, courses and materials.
• Referral bonus for talent brought to us by you.

Our interview process

• Phone call: covering the basics to make sure we are a good fit for each other.
• Technical and personal interview: understanding you professionally and personally, and answering all your questions.
• Test stage: a preview of the type of work you’d do in Marfeel & so you can see us in action too.
• Test review interview: we discuss your test and provide feedback.