Cloud System Administrator

BBVA is a global company with more than 160 years of history that operates in more than 25 countries where we serve more than 80 million customers. We are more than 121,000 professionals working in multidisciplinary teams with profiles as diverse as financiers, legal experts, data scientists, developers, engineers and designers.

About the job:

As a Cloud System Administrator, you will be responsible for the administration, automation, monitoring and remediation of applications, systems and architectures deployed in Microsoft Azure. You will work hands-on with cloud, infrastructure and engineering teams to ensure our Azure environments are resilient, up to date, secure and highly available for colleagues and customers.

Functions (duties and responsibilities):

• Collaborate with Cloud Engineers, DevOps and Network teams to deliver automated-by-default Azure deployments, following CI/CD best practices.
• Own the administration of Azure-based solutions, including automation, patching, monitoring and application remediation.
• Assess current application monitoring and propose improvements, including process automation opportunities.
• Design and implement automated deployment and operable monitoring solutions to build a resilient and controllable cloud environment.
• Ensure end-to-end connectivity across systems and applications.
• Keep servers, applications and platform components up to date, aligned with patching and lifecycle policies.
• Maintain and oversee official inventories of ICT infrastructure and applications.
• Provide hands-on support across the project lifecycle: architecture design, build, deployment, configuration and operations.
• Validate reliability configurations and architectures, producing technical evidence to support compliance requirements.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong hands-on experience in Azure administration (experience with other cloud providers is a plus).
• Deep technical knowledge of Microsoft Azure services, especially from an administration and monitoring perspective.
• Solid understanding of Azure networking: Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets and routing, Network Security Groups (NSG), Azure Firewall (and general firewall concepts), private endpoints, service endpoints and hybrid connectivity.
• Strong experience with identity and access management in Azure, including authentication, authorization and privileged access.
• Experience designing and implementing cloud monitoring (logs, metrics and alerts), and supporting proper CI/CD environments.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC), particularly Terraform.
• Ability to read, understand and challenge technical designs and architectures.
• Strong problem-solving mindset and autonomy in technical work.
• Excellent command of English and Spanish (German is a plus).

• Designing and implementing automation, deployment and monitoring systems in Microsoft Azure.
• Working hands-on with Azure services across identity, networking, deployment, alerting and monitoring.
• Automating complex cloud environments, including multi-subscription and hybrid scenarios.
• Building reliable deployment and monitoring foundations for cloud infrastructure.
• Partnering closely with engineering teams to automate cloud architectures and operational processes.
• Documenting and validating technical decisions and configurations affecting exposure, monitoring and security.

Arquitecturas de la nube, Infraestructura de la nube, Microsoft Azure, Soluciones de monitoreo