Company Description
Colliers is a leading diversified professional services and investment management company. With operations in 68 countries, our 22,000 enterprising people work collaboratively to provide expert advice to maximize the potential of property and real assets to accelerate the success of our clients, our investors and our people.
We are at the forefront of the real estate industry, leading the way and backed by an exceptional record of success. We are building for our future – and yours.
We strive to build our business at a competitive pace by augmenting internal growth with smart strategic acquisitions that increase market share, expand service offerings and extend our geographic reach for the benefit of our clients and shareholders.
For more than 29 years, Colliers has created value for shareholders that has resulted in superior returns and industry growth. Our people also own significant equity in our business, which brings pride of ownership to everything we do. We are passionate, take personal responsibility and always do what's right for our clients, people and communities.
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced and passionate Senior CI/CD Engineer for our newly established Technology Hub in Madrid. This is a unique opportunity to become part of the founding team that helps shape the culture, practices, and technical direction. Working in a hybrid model (remote & onsite), you will enjoy significant freedom to innovate and influence the future of one of the world’s largest commercial real estate companies. With the leadership of the Global Technology Hub coming from a background of technology startups, you will benefit from a fast-paced learning environment, high visibility of your contributions and opportunities to shape processes, culture and technology strategies. At the same time, you take advantage of the stability, resources, and reach of a successful global company.
Guided by our global digital strategy, the Madrid Hub collaborates closely with international teams to deliver world-class technology solutions that power the future of commercial real estate.
As Senior CI/CD Engineer, you focus on designing, implementing, and optimizing continuous integration and delivery pipelines that enable high-quality, secure, and reliable software delivery across multiple geographies.
As a senior member of the DevOps team, you will play a critical role in shaping our global delivery pipelines, embedding automation into every stage of the software lifecycle and empowering engineering teams to ship faster and more reliably. You will contribute to global products and platforms that serve both internal and external customers in Commercial Real Estate across multiple regions. Working closely with international Product, Engineering, Data, QA and Architecture teams, you will ensure delivery excellence, engineering quality and great consumer experience.
You are a hands-on problem-solver with strong software design principles, who thrives in a collaborative and agile environment. As a senior member of the DevOps function, you will set technical direction, drive best practices and mentor junior engineers while building solutions with real business impact.
Pipeline Architecture and Automation
- Architect and maintain enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines across multiple business-critical applications and services.
- Drive adoption of pipeline-as-code principles (Azure DevOps, Jenkins)
- Automate build, test, and deployment workflows to reduce manual effort and ensure reliability.
- Implement advanced deployment strategies such as blue/green, canary and rolling updates.
Integration and Collaboration
- Partner with Frontend, Backend, Data and QA Engineers to ensure testing, quality gates, and security checks are fully embedded in pipelines.
- Work with Platform Engineers to ensure pipelines integrate seamlessly with Kubernetes clusters and container registries.
- Collaborate with Engineering and Engineering Operations leadership to align delivery capabilities and product and business needs.
- Coordinate with Information Security to integrate vulnerability scanning, compliance checks, and secure release practices.
- Collaborate regularly with Infrastructure Teams, especially Cloud Engineering, to align on requirements, clarify priorities and deliver business value iteratively.
Observability, Performance and Governance
- Establish pipeline monitoring, alerting, and reporting to ensure transparency of delivery performance.
- Define and track key metrics (build success rate, deployment frequency, change failure rate) aligned with engineering KPIs.
- Identify bottlenecks and proactively optimize pipeline performance to minimize developer friction
- Ensure pipelines adhere to governance frameworks while remaining lightweight and developer-friendly.
Leadership and Empowerment
- Act as a senior technical advisor for CI/CD within the DevOps function
- Mentor junior engineers and help drive a culture of automation and DevOps excellence across the organisation.
- Create self-service CI/CD tooling and templates that empower engineering teams to build and deploy independently.
- Contribute to the definition of the global software delivery operating model, balancing standardization with localized flexibility.
- Ensure compliance with global standards, information security policies and regulatory requirements
Qualifications
Required Skills/Experience:
- 5-8+ years of experience in CI/CD, DevOps, or build/release engineering, ideally in a global or enterprise-scale environment.
- Hands-on expertise with modern CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins).
- Strong proficiency in scripting and automation (Bash, PowerShell, YAML, Python).
- Proven experience integrating test automation frameworks (unit, integration, performance, security) into CI/CD workflows.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, containers and cloud-native deployments in Azure and GCP.
- Strong understanding of DevOps metrics, observability, and governance practices.
- Agile Development experience (Scrum/Kanban), including story estimation, code reviews and pair programming.
- Experience working in distributed or remote teams and using tools such as Jira, GitHub, Miro and Azure DevOps.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, fluent in English and Spanish.
- Understanding of secure development practices and compliance frameworks (e.g. ISO27001, GDPR, SOC2).
Preferred Skills/Experience:
- Experience with GitOps practices.
- Knowledge of service mesh and cloud-native networking.
- Exposure to compliance-driven development (ISO27001, GDPR, SOC2).
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, growing tech environment and to foster change in larger organizations.
