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 CloudOps 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 (2 days on-site), 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 CloudOps Engineer, you will focus on ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of our cloud environments across Azure and GCP, while enabling software teams to deliver faster through automation and operational excellence.
As a key member of the DevOps team, you will be responsible for designing and maintaining cloud infrastructure, embedding infrastructure as code (IaC) practices, and driving cloud governance in close partnership with the infrastructure team. You will also serve as a bridge to Infrastructure and Information Security, embedding compliance and resilience into every layer of our cloud operations.
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.
Cloud Architecture and Infrastructure Management
- Design, implement and manage scalable, resilient, and cost-optimized cloud architectures in GCP and Azure.
- Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).
- Oversee resource management (compute, storage, networking, identity, and access control.
- Ensure systems are designed for resilience, disaster recovery, and high availability across multiple regions.
- Define and enforce standards for Azure DevOps projects, repositories, branching strategies, and release configurations to ensure consistency across global engineering teams.
Automation and Operational Excellence
- Automate provisioning configuration and scaling of cloud infrastructure.
- Work closely with CI/CD Engineers to embed infrastructure changes seamlessly into delivery pipelines.
- Collaborate with CI/CD Engineers to ensure Azure DevOps pipelines integrate effectively with monitoring, security scanning and governance frameworks.
- Implement self-service models, and templates to empower software engineers to consume cloud services safely and efficiently.
- Continuously optimize cost, performance, and scalability through monitoring and proactive improvements.
- Provide onboarding for Azure DevOps services, ensuring teams follow established standards.
Security, Compliance and Governance
- Partner with Information Security to enforce cloud security baselines, identity and access management (IAM) and encryption policies.
- Drive governance frameworks around tagging, resource usage, cost controls, and compliance reporting.
- Integrate cloud-native security and monitoring tools (Azure Security Center, GCP Security Command Center, etc).
- Support adherence to standards such as ISO 27001, GDPR and SOC2 in collaboration with Engineering Operations,
Leadership and Collaboration
- Collaborate with the Infrastructure Team to clearly define responsibilities for networking, hybrid/on-prem integrations and legacy systems.
- Partner with Platform Engineers to align infrastructure with Kubernetes and container strategies.
- Act as a trusted advisor for the Software Engineering teams when designing and consuming cloud services.
- Mentor engineers across the organization in cloud-native best practices.
- Provide input into the global operation model for cloud management, balancing standardization with regional needs.
Qualifications
Required Skills/Experience:
- 5-8+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering operations, ideally across GCP and Azure.
- Expertise with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform.
- Strong knowledge of cloud networking, IAM, and security configurations.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, GCP Operations Suite, Datadog))
- Hand-on experience with Kubernetes, containers and cloud-native deployments in Azure and GCP.
- 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:
- Deep knowledge and passion for the Azure DevOps platform (governance, reliability, integration). Exposure to multi-cloud governance frameworks and FinOps services.
- Familiarity with DevSecOps and compliance-driven environments.
- Contributions to internal development platforms or developer experience initiatives.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, growing tech environment and to foster change in larger organizations.
