Specialist IoT Cloud Engineer Lead

Job Description

Join Us

At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.

Joining Vodafone IoT’s team means being part of a growing, purpose-driven organisation at the forefront of innovation. Our teams are made up of curious minds, problem-solvers, and forward-thinkers across the world who thrive in a collaborative, high-performing, inclusive environment.

What you’ll do

Vodafone has also carved out the IoT Connectivity business to secure additional external investment and maintain our leading position in the industry through the following.
- Continue accelerating and enhancing our Platform as a Service for Vodafone customers on footprint.
- Launch service proposition in markets that are off Vodafone’s current footprint (US and France).
- Address long tail lower volume segment through digital self-service platform globally.

We are looking for an IoT Infrastructure Engineer to join the IoT Platform Engineering organisation. The successful candidate will join the Cloud Engineering and Infrastructure Enablement team, accountable for enabling the foundations of the IoT Global Connectivity platform. This includes guaranteeing strategic evolution, operational excellence, security, cost optimisation, and resilience of infrastructure and database services, enabling the Hyperconnect modernisation programme and supporting Vodafone’s ambition for global IoT leadership.

The role also contributes to the adoption of AI-enabled infrastructure and operational capabilities, ensuring the platform can securely, reliably, and cost-effectively support intelligent, data-driven IoT services at global scale.

• Engineering drive and operational excellence across the full lifecycle of infrastructure and database assets, ensuring reliability, scalability, security, and cost effectiveness.
• Provide experts knowledge on cloud infrastructure and platforms, to ensure our organisation achieves its goals for cloud adoption
• Design, build, deliver, maintain, and improve infrastructure solutions which includes automation strategies such as Infrastructure-as-code, Configuration-as-code, Policy-as-code, release orchestration and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and collaborative ways of working (e.g., DevOps).
• Contribute to the adoption of AI-driven operational and optimisation practices, delivering measurable improvements in efficiency, reliability, and incident reduction
• Own and optimise cloud and on-premises infrastructure, improving inventory visibility, resilience, and proactive cost management.
• Work closely with the rest of the IoT Platform Engineering team, Product teams, Network engineering and Security teams to ensure seamless alignment and delivery.
• Manage supplier and partner relationships, ensuring getting the right support to achieve our business goals

Who you are

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, designing and operating production cloud environments.
• Deep understanding of IaaS, PaaS, scalable architectures, APIs, and microservices.
• Familiar with cloud provider frameworks (e.g. Well-Architected) and architecture artifacts.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation using Terraform, Packer.
• Proven use of CI/CD and DevOps tooling (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub/GitLab).
• Comfortable scripting and automating workflows using Python and shell scripting.
• Experience with container platforms including Docker and Kubernetes (EKS preferred).
• Strong knowledge of cloud networking, including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, NACLs, VPNs, peering, transit gateways, and egress cost optimization.
• Experience implementing cloud security controls, encryption, and key management services.
• Proven ability to design for resilience, including multi-AZ and multi-region architectures, backup and recovery.
• Comfortable supporting incident response, root cause analysis, and operational improvements.
• Understanding of AI and machine-learning concepts relevant to infrastructure and operations
• Excellent written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Experience working on geographically distributed teams and interacting and managing stakeholders in multiple markets and verticals.
• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Five or more years of experience in IT infrastructure and database management, both on-premises and in the cloud.
• Equivalent hands-on experience operating large-scale, production cloud platforms is valued in lieu of formal certifications.

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.

What's in it for you

• On site work. Office: Madrid
• Bonus on top of the gross salary.
• Meal voucher (Ticket Restaurant), additional to gross salary.
• Flexible working hours from Monday to Thursday, and an intensive schedule on Fridays.
• Intensive Summer Schedule during July and August.
• Up to 20 days per year of 100% remote work from other locations.
• Private Health and Life Insurance for employees.
• 25 vacation days, plus December 24th and 31st off.
• Optional Pension Plan.
• Access to an online learning platform for continuous training.

Who we are

With more than 200 million device connections around the world, Vodafone IoT is a global leader in managed IoT connectivity – connecting people, places and devices. We help create a smarter, more sustainable, and more connected world - from enabling smart cities and autonomous vehicles to transforming healthcare, agriculture, and logistics. Our work shapes the digital future of businesses – allowing them to effectively manage and monitor their operations using IoT. As a global leader in IoT connectivity – operating in more than 180 countries across the globe - we empower individuals, businesses, and entire industries to unlock their potential through technology that’s secure, scalable, and future-ready. Vodafone IoT is a subsidiary of Vodafone Group.
Vodafone Group is a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.
Belonging at Vodafone isn’t a concept; it’s lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You’ll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. We’re committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, please refer to https://careers.vodafone.com/application-adjustments/ for guidance.

Together we can.