Senior System Administrator, Kodify
Website & video content production
Open for applications
Website & video content production
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To lead the way and innovate the online entertainment sector.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of 6 years of professional experience in systems administration, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering
- Proven experience managing high-traffic, large-scale production environments
- Deep proficiency with major Cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals (CNI, Ingress, Network Policies, etc.)
- Hands-on experience with IaC and automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, etc.)
- Deep understanding of Linux environments, including system internals and performance troubleshooting
- Strong knowledge of networking fundamentals and troubleshooting (Load Balancers, VPCs, Firewalls, DNS)
- Experience implementing security best practices, including DDoS mitigation and incident response
- Proficiency with reverse proxies and CDNs (Cloudflare, CloudFront, Akamai, etc.)
- Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring stacks (ELK/EFK, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic)
- Experience managing SQL/NoSQL databases and distributed systems (MySQL, Aurora, Redis, MongoDB, OpenSearch)
- Experience implementing GitOps workflows (ArgoCD or Flux) and configuring scalable CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions or GitLab Pipelines
- Proficiency in scripting (Bash, Python, etc.)
- You’re a real team player. You love to help and find solutions together
- You take full accountability for your work, driving tasks from conception to resolution
- Your sense of humour will bring a new dynamic to the team - you love to have fun while you work!
- You can think on your feet and adapt well to fast changing environments and priorities
- You love analysing data. You’re a complexity thinker and a real problem solver
- You’re flexible and available when needed. You understand emergency calls can be part of the job and are aware of the challenges supporting a 24/7 environment
- Stay updated on industry developments and strive to improve our platform with innovative solutions
- You embrace AI-assisted engineering and understand how to use these tools effectively while maintaining critical thinking
Desirable
- Development experience in a general-purpose programming language (Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust, etc.)
- Experience using agentic AI development tools (i.e. GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, Codex, etc.) to streamline day-to-day work (automation, troubleshooting, operational workflows, IaC, etc)
What the job involves
- Design, implement, and evolve hybrid infrastructure across Cloud and bare metal environments
- Automate and document technical processes to optimize efficiency and minimize manual toil
- Act as a technical reference for the team, supporting developers and facilitating efficient delivery
- Ensure platform stability, security, and scalability to withstand high-traffic demands
- Comfortable with the DevOps culture
- Participate in paid on-call rotations to support our critical systems
- We’re very flexible about when you get your work done, but we do have some core hours where we like to overlap in order to promote collaboration and low-latency communication between team members (10:00 to 15:00 CET)
- Our daily virtual stand-ups are important for us but other than that, you’re free to manage your own time
Our take
Kodify essentially operates two businesses under one umbrella – video content production on one hand, and web development on the other. However, it seems that the company doesn’t simply build sites for other clients, but rather develops and runs high-traffic sites of its own.
Which exact sites these are isn't public knowledge, but Kodify does state that its sites receive over seven million visitors a day. That the company is able to specialise in two separate internet niches might owe partly to the fact that it's been around since 2002, when video streaming and internet entertainment as a whole weren’t as competitive as today.
Kodify is quite a rare company in a way, creating the impression of being something of a throwback dot-com business. This is to its credit, however, showing that the tech industry can still be kept relatively simple and effective. Indeed, the fact that the company has grown to operate out of Barcelona, Los Angeles, and Montreal, and has never had to seek VC investment, indicates that it’s doing plenty right.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company benefits
- Permanent employment contract
- Latest tech equipment: choose whatever boosts your productivity!
- Core hours with flexitime: work when you’re at your most creative!
- 10% extra for training and development budget
- Agile environment
- Private Health Insurance
- Free lunches!
- Company Amazon book account
- Half day off on your birthday
- Fresh organic fruit, snacks, coffee, drinks etc
- Kodify off-sites abroad, fun events and regular team activities!
- Awesome offices and locations: Barcelona, Los Angeles, Altea, and Montreal!
- BBQ on a terrace
Company HQ
Dreta de l'Eixample, Barcelona, Spain
Leadership
Steve Matthyssen
(Owner)Previously Owner of Kode Shop in Alicante.
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