Senior Database Infrastructure Engineer, Madrid

Senior Database Infrastructure Engineer, Madrid

Who Are We?

Welcome to Welltech-where health meets innovation! As a global leader in the Health Fitness industry, we’ve crossed over 200 million installs with five life-changing apps all designed to boost well-being for millions. Our mission? To transform lives through intuitive nutrition trackers, powerful fitness solutions, and personalized wellness journeys—all powered by a diverse team of over 700 passionate professionals with presence across 5 hubs.

Why Welltech? Imagine joining a team where your impact on global health and wellness is felt daily. At Welltech, we strive to be proactive wellness partners for our users while continually evolving ourselves.

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with strong experience in database systems to join our Payments platform team. Our Payments Team is at the forefront of building a cutting-edge internal payments platform designed to streamline and revolutionize payment processes across our organization. We’re a highly collaborative and dynamic group combining expertise in infrastructure, database management, and software engineering to create robust scalable solutions.

Key Responsibilities

1. Build and maintain cloud infrastructure (AWS) through Infrastructure as Code and automation.
2. Provide technical leadership and guidance to your team, fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment.
3. Provide support to other teams that utilize cloud infrastructure.
4. Help other teams continue to design scalable, reliable, secure infrastructure. Write great documentation; go nuts with diagrams.
5. Plan, implement, manage, monitor, and upgrade security measures for the protection of the product's data, systems, and networks.
6. Utilize security tools to monitor assets and remediate findings to strengthen the security posture of the product.
7. Respond to system and/or network security events.
8. Use GitOps and CI/CD to automatically test and deploy your code.
9. Develop and participate in the change management process.
10. Monitor your infrastructure with Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, and other tools.
11. Develop and execute periodical security processes including vulnerability scanning, patching, remediation, account auditing, and related reporting.
12. Perform daily administrative tasks, reporting, and communication with the relevant departments in the organization.
13. Be able to clearly communicate your design choices and take feedback.
14. Research solutions, kick the tires, and deploy prototypes.
15. Keep abreast of the latest and emerging technologies.
16. Participate in on-call rotations to ensure system availability and timely incident resolution, providing support during critical outages or disruptions.

Required Skills

1. Relevant 5+ years of experience as a DevOps with at least 4 years of experience with AWS.
2. Experience with various AWS services like EC2, S3, Aurora, RDS, EKS, MSK, API gateways, Route53, CloudFront, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, etc.
3. Strong experience in relational databases (PostgreSQL, AWS Aurora) and topics like disaster recovery, backup strategies, etc.
4. Experience in hosting multi-tier/microservice applications on AWS based on customer needs.
5. Comfortable using one of the following scripting languages for debugging applications, network issues, and vulnerabilities: Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, Shell.
6. Ability to handle production load and issues related to deployments in production.
7. Experience in setting up IaC using tools like Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, or similar.
8. Experience with CI/CD, building and automating deployments, and other repetitive tasks using Gitlab or similar.
9. Knowledge of managing containerized services using Kubernetes and Docker.
10. Knowledge of how to troubleshoot, identify performance bottlenecks, and optimize the performance of the services.
11. Great awareness of cybersecurity trends and hacking techniques.
12. Taking full responsibility for the results of own work.
13. Great communication and collaboration skills.
14. English at the intermediate level at least, both written and spoken.

Additional Skills (Nice to Have)

1. Knowledge of the service-mesh pattern and toolkit (Traefik, Istio, Consul, etc.).
2. Hands-on experience with Gitlab Ultimate security features.

Candidate Journey
Recruiter call --> Meet a team member --> Skills assessment --> Meet the Leadership team.

Why You’ll Love Being Part of Welltech

1. Grow Together: Join a culture that champions both personal and professional growth. Here you’ll thrive as we learn, evolve, and succeed together.
2. Lead by Example: No matter your role, your leadership matters. Every team member is empowered to inspire and make an impact.
3. Results-Driven: We’re all about achieving meaningful outcomes. It’s not just about the effort but the difference we make every day.
4. We Are Well-Makers: Be part of a movement that’s creating a healthier, happier world. Together we make well-being a reality!