Senior Cloud Operations Engineer

About the role

Clarivate is looking for a Senior Cloud Operations Engineer to join its Cloud Engineering team in Barcelona. The team is the central cloud enablement function, supporting cloud adoption and operational best practices across the organisation. You will work closely with Engineering and Information Security teams to build secure, scalable and compliant cloud foundations on public cloud platforms.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain automated cloud platform capabilities using Terraform, GitHub Actions and cloud-native services.
• Define, implement and govern Azure cloud standards for identity, networking, security, resource management and compliance.
• Develop automated guardrails and governance controls so engineering teams can deploy and operate cloud solutions consistently and securely.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Information Security teams to improve cloud architecture, operational resilience and security posture.
• Drive operational excellence through automation, process improvement, monitoring, observability and incident reduction.
• Assess and introduce new technologies, tooling and platform capabilities that improve cloud adoption, developer productivity and infrastructure governance.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent relevant work experience.
• At least 5 years designing, implementing and operating cloud infrastructure in enterprise-scale environments.
• At least 5 years administering and supporting Microsoft Azure, including governance, identity management, networking and security controls.
• At least 5 years using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform to provision, manage and govern cloud resources.
• At least 3 years developing and supporting CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Git and automation best practices.
• At least 5 years working with Linux systems and troubleshooting cloud infrastructure, performance and production issues at scale.
• Experience using AI and Copilot to automate cloud operations, infrastructure management, troubleshooting, documentation and engineering workflows while keeping security and governance standards.

Required skills

• Microsoft Azure
• Terraform
• GitHub Actions
• Linux
• CI/CD pipelines
• Nice to have: multi-account AWS, observability platforms such as DataDog, Cloudflare, Snowflake or Databricks, multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP), and cloud compliance and security governance frameworks.

What we offer

• Full-time, permanent position, mainly during core CET business hours.
• 30 working days of vacation.
• Paid volunteering hours.
• Private health and life and disability insurance.
• Tax-free benefits (Ticket Restaurant scheme, kindergarten, transport cards).
• Agile work environment and on-site language classes in Catalan, Spanish and English.