The Team You Will Join 

You will be part of the IT Infrastructure & Helpdesk department within MetLife in Iberia (Spain and Portugal). The team is responsible for managing and maintaining the company's IT infrastructure, ensuring smooth operations and support across various regions. This includes overseeing IT service delivery, infrastructure management, and providing technical support to enhance the overall efficiency and reliability of MetLife's IT systems. 

The team works closely with other departments (IT Applications department, Information Security. Operations, and Business) to implement and support IT solutions that align with the company's strategic goals.

The Opportunity 

We are seeking a skilled Cloud and systems engineer with a strong background in automation to join our dynamic team. 

The Cloud and systems engineer will be responsible for managing and maintaining our company's IT systems, ensuring optimal performance, security, and reliability. The ideal person will have extensive experience with Windows, Linux, Ansible, Elastic, and OpenShift, and will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining automated solutions to enhance our cloud and on-premise infrastructure, with a primary focus on Azure. 

This role requires a proactive individual with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a dynamic environment.

How You’ll Help Us Build a Confident Future (Key Responsibilities)

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify automation opportunities and develop solutions that improve operational efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Design, develop, and implement automation workflows using Ansible, Azure Devops and Terraform to streamline IT tasks such as configuration management, application and infrastructure deployment
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code scripts to automate the provisioning and management of observability tools and resources.
• Operate Azure Hosted infrastructure through its lifecycle. Keep it current and aligned with business objectives
• Create, enhance, and maintain existing automation scripts and tools, ensuring they are up-to-date and aligned with industry best practices.
• Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, and security.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to define and implement observability and monitoring monitoring, and tracing standards and best practices.
• Troubleshoot and resolve observability-related issues, ensuring minimal impact on system availability and performance.
• Continuously evaluate and integrate new observability tools and technologies to enhance our monitoring capabilities.
• Maintain documentation of configurations, processes, and procedures.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies.

What You Need to Succeed (Required Qualifications)

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Proven experience as a Cloud Engineer, Network Administrator with a focus on automation and Infrastructure as Code.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team.
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and tracing tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Jaeger, etc.
• Solid understanding of networking, system administration, and security best practices.

What Can Give You an Edge (Additional Skills)

• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Experience with automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Chef, or Puppet.
• Experience with of CI/CD pipelines and related tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI.
• Understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture.