Platform Engineer

What is Exoticca?

Do you like traveling? Do you enjoy the exotic? Do you like challenges? If the answer is YES, welcome to Exoticca!

Exoticca is a company that started in 2013 by professionals specialized in the creation and online distribution of trips. Our mission is to offer our clients the possibility to visit the most beautiful and stimulating places on our planet, though the best holiday packages, at unbelievable prices. We are a highly ambitious and well-funded start-up, backed by top national and international investors that have also participated in the growth of other success stories, such as Glovo, SinDelantal.com, or Idealista, among others.

At Exoticca we are looking for people who want to offer their best to create unforgettable experiences for our customers. We are a young, dynamic, multicultural team in rapid international growth, seeking new partners to help us create the best and most forward-thinking travel company of our generation.

What are we proposing?

We are looking for tech-heroes with the desire to contribute to our mission, who admire different world cultures and have huge respect for the environment, who moreover feel energized with challenges and love being part of our company growth.

As platform engineers, we are committed to architecting robust infrastructure solutions, implementing best practices in cloud computing and automation, and continuously optimizing performance and reliability. Our goal is to empower our cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software efficiently through automation, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code. By fostering a culture of collaboration, learning, and innovation, we aim to elevate our platform to meet the evolving needs of our customers and position our company as a leader in the travel technology space

Responsibilities

• TDesign and Architectural Planning: Design and architect multi-cloud-based infrastructure and services that meet performance, availability, and security requirements. Develop architectural patterns, standards, and best practices to guide platform development and evolution.
• Infrastructure Provisioning and Configuration: Automate deployment and configuration processes to ensure consistency, reliability, and scalability.
• Containerization and Orchestration: Optimize containerized workloads for performance, scalability, and resource efficiency.
• Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD): Design CI/CD pipelines to automate software build, test, and deployment processes.
• Monitoring and Observability: Configure dashboards and reports to track key metrics, identify trends, and troubleshoot issues proactively. Respond to incidents and outages, performing root cause analysis and implementing remediation actions.
• Security and Compliance: Implement security controls and best practices to protect infrastructure, data, and applications from threats and vulnerabilities. Conduct regular security assessments, audits, and compliance checks to ensure adherence to industry standards and regulations.
• Capacity Planning and Optimization: Monitor resource utilization and performance metrics to identify optimization opportunities and prevent capacity constraints, incorporating financial operations (FinOps) to manage cloud spending effectively.
• Research and Innovation: Stay informed about emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in cloud computing and platform engineering. Evaluate new tools, services, and methodologies to improve platform capabilities, performance, and efficiency. Lead research and development initiatives to prototype and validate innovative solutions for future platform enhancements.

Requirements

• Proficiency in cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Certification is a plus.
• Strong scripting and programming skills in languages like Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation, infrastructure as code (IaC), and scripting tasks.
• Proficient with containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet for managing infrastructure configurations.
• Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices and tools such as Jenkins or Github.
• Understanding of networking principles, including TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, and VPN technologies.
• Proficiency in monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
• Strong understanding of security best practices and experience implementing security controls within cloud environments.
• Knowledge of database technologies such as SQL and NoSQL databases, including configuration, optimization, and replication strategies.

Nice to have:

• Previous experience in a similar role as a platform engineer, DevOps engineer, or cloud infrastructure engineer.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable cloud-based platforms and services.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package, in line with job responsibilities and experience.
• Individual Training Budget.
• Flexible compensation on transportation and food with Cobee also in our private health insurance.
• Flexible working schedule, just make sure you meet your monthly goals!
• 100% Remote working (from Spain).
• Permanent contract from the start.
• Travel with Exoticca at reduced prices !!!
• Referral bonus, if you bring people as talented as you can earn a very nice bonus!
• And last but not least, becoming part of a fun and motivated multicultural team at an agile and rapid growing organization where teamwork, drive, commitment, resilience and being customer-centric are the core values.

Exoticca is an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusiveness are our core. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under European, country, or local law.

PLEASE READ BEFORE APPLYING: You must reside within Spain with the right to work to be considered for this role. The CV must be submitted in English.