SysOps Engineer

Who We Are

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: understanding what content is working right now, what has performed over time, and what to do next. Our platform gives editorial, SEO, audience, and revenue teams a unified view of their business, spanning real-time dashboards and deep historical analysis, all in one place.

Our international team is made up of over 15 different nationalities, with headquarters in Barcelona. Our people and our diversity are at the heart of what we build, and we are still growing.

The infrastructure that you will work with supports hundreds of deployments everyday including:

• GitOps-first deployment approach on on-premise Kubernetes clusters handling more than 40 million requests per minute
• Bare-metal infrastructure distributed across multiple datacenters in different geographies and providers
• Elasticsearch cluster with an ingest rate of 6 TB/day at a pace of 100k requests/s
• Dockerized Jenkins pipelines with a controller/agent architecture
• Multi-CDN infrastructure managed with Ansible and Terraform to enable multi-tenancy
• AWS and GCP cloud infrastructure managed following IaC best practices
• Centralized observability stack (Prometheus + Grafana) across the whole bare-metal and Kubernetes fleet
• Heterogeneous high-traffic database clusters (MongoDB, ClickHouse, KeyDB, MySQL, among others)

The Role

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. It's a hands-on role where you'll learn from senior engineers and grow your skills across automation, databases, and infrastructure.

This Is What You'll Do

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)

This Is You

• 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

We'll Be Further Impressed If You 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

This will be you as part of the Marfeel team:

• 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 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

Our Interview Process

• Phone call : covering the basics to make sure we are a good fit for each other
• Technical and personal interview : understanding you professionally and personally, and answering all your questions
• Test stage : a preview of the type of work you’d do in Marfeel & so you can see us in action too
• Test review interview : we discuss your test and provide feedback