SysOps Engineer in Barcelona

About the Position

Marfeel is a publishing intelligence platform trusted by over 5,000 publishers worldwide, including Business Insider, Le Figaro, El País, and McClatchy. We help publishers turn data into action by providing a unified view of their business through real-time dashboards and deep historical analysis. Our international team, headquartered in Barcelona, is at the heart of what we build, and we are still growing.

Responsibilities

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. Your responsibilities will include:

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).

Requirements

• 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.

Nice to Have

• 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.

We Offer

• 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 a 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.

About the Company

Marfeel is an ad tech platform that revolutionizes the way publishers create, optimize, and monetize mobile websites. As mobile traffic increases and surpasses desktop volumes, publishers are required to develop a multi-screen digital strategy that adapts to usage trends and stays ahead of the competition. Catering to publishers’ ever-changing needs, Marfeel developed a proprietary technology that analyzes publishers’ unique audience – user habits, behavior, and usage patterns – and dynamically adjusts the mobile site layout, to address these, which results in maximizing readership levels, engagements, pageviews, loading time, and ultimately ad revenue.

Marfeel’s UX technology is designed to automatically update mobile content, reflecting any changes taking place on the desktop site, so that content is consistent across all channels, eliminating any need for IT support. All updates are done via the cloud, making the maintenance of mobile sites simple, user-friendly, and cost-effective for publishers.

Marfeel’s exclusive partnerships with over 20,000 global ad networks and exchanges ensure top-paying ads from premium advertisers. Now reaching over 500 million readers a month, the company’s groundbreaking website conversion and monetization solution has been recognized by Google and Facebook, forming a strategic alliance with the search engine in 2015 and with the social network in 2017.

Marfeel is backed by strategic investors in the mobile space, including: Nauta Capital, BDMI, Elaia Partners. To learn more about Marfeel, please visit http://www.marfeel.com.

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