Senior Systems Engineer

What you will be doing

At BMAT, infrastructure is not just a support function in the background — it is a core part of how we deliver music data and technology at scale to the global music industry.

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you’ll help operate, improve and maintain the infrastructure that powers BMAT’s platforms and services across both on-premise and cloud environments. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys understanding systems deeply, solving operational challenges, automating repetitive work, and building reliable infrastructure that engineering teams can depend on.

You’ll work in a highly autonomous environment where engineers are trusted to take ownership of their work, contribute improvements, and help make systems more stable, secure and maintainable over time. Alongside day-to-day operational responsibilities, each team member also contributes to infrastructure improvement initiatives focused on automation, reliability and operational efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain our hybrid (on-premise and cloud) system infrastructure, championing resilience, stability and sustainability in your approach.
• Identify and implement improvements to existing infrastructure, tooling and operational workflows.
• Build strong knowledge across BMAT’s infrastructure environment and contribute as a trusted technical team member.
• Write flexible, reusable IaC or configuration management system modules that the rest of the team can leverage to accelerate their own work.
• Identify reliability, performance or security risks proactively before they impact production systems.
• Assist the engineering teams in resolving their issues.
• Uphold technical quality standards and established conventions.
• Contribute to operational excellence by participating in incident response, maintenance and support workflows together with the IT team.

Collaboration and Team Dynamics

You will work closely with BMAT’s Engineering and DevOps teams to deploy, maintain and improve the infrastructure that supports our products and internal platforms. This collaboration is essential to ensuring reliability, scalability and operational efficiency across the company’s services and systems.

Expectations of the role

Within 30 Days:

During the first month, your primary focus will be on familiarising yourself with essential aspects of the role and supporting foundational tasks.

• Successfully complete the on-boarding process and get to know the IT platforms and services, company culture, processes, roles and responsibilities.
• Familiarise yourself with the IT and Engineering departments to understand their objectives and workflows.
• Gain experience with existing tooling, processes, and procedures.
• Start work on smaller tasks and take on tickets you feel confident you can handle.

Within 60 Days:

By the second month, you’ll be expected to take on more complex responsibilities and actively contribute to team/project/strategic initiatives.

• Collaborate with IT and Engineering teams to gain a deeper understanding of their objectives and workflows.
• Assist in the maintenance and upgrade of existing deployments, including e.g. OS and package upgrades or CMS improvements.
• Respond to platform-related warnings and alarms, contributing to the goal of ensuring a stable and resilient production environment.
• Further support your teammates by taking on more challenging tasks and tickets.

Within 90 Days:

At the end of the probationary period, you’ll be expected to autonomously manage tasks, contribute to strategic planning, and take on leadership roles as appropriate.

• Collaborate with the Engineering teams to understand their objectives and workflows.
• Schedule and perform maintenance and upgrade tasks to ensure an up-to-date and secured server infrastructure.
• Coordinate maintenance activities with other teams to minimize critical systems downtime.
• Assume platform-related medium-complexity tickets and tasks.
• Take ownership of team quarterly objectives and see them through to successful completion.
• Support other teams by helping them solve infrastructure access issues, hardware performance problems or backup restoration tasks.

Your technical skills

• 5+ years of experience in IT systems administration.
• Extensive experience with CLI-based installation and maintenance of the Linux OS in on-premise or cloud environments.
• Experience managing SaaS systems, including public and private cloud resources, via web console and/or API.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP network protocols and administration, and associated protocols and systems (e.g. DNS, HTTP).
• Python 3 and/or BASH scripting/programming skills.
• Extensive experience with configuration management tools such as Puppet and Ansible, and/or IaC tools such as Terraform.
• Experience in the usage and/or management of VPN systems such as  OpenVPN and/or IPsec.
• Understanding of symmetric and asymmetric key cryptography systems and their application (SSH, SSL).
• Experience in SQL database usage - DBA experience is an advantage.

Your organisational skills

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with an attention to detail.
• Ability to effectively communicate with team members, stakeholders, and third-parties.
• Time-management and self-organisation skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks among competing workloads.
• Proactive attitude with a willingness to learn, take initiative, and accept feedback from managers.
• Collaborative team player contributing positively to team dynamics to foster a supportive work environment.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information with discretion.
• Fluency in English. Proficiency in Spanish and Catalan is highly appreciated, but not mandatory.
• The role is located in Barcelona. Local candidates are preferred, but remote work arrangements may be considered.

You Can Enjoy

• Flexible working hours and location
• Flat hierarchy
• You can make the role your own and run your own development
• Online language classes to improve your Spanish or English
• Online and onsite courses and music industry workshops run by inhouse experts
• We’ll provide you with all equipment needed for you to be comfortable
• Unlimited time off because we believe that you know best when you need to rest.
• Barcelona HQ office available to you, kitted out with a rehearsal room https://www.bmat.com/bmat-house/

Who the FAQ are BMAT

BMAT started in 2005 when a group of engineers with a passion for music decided to spin-off from an audio research lab in Barcelona. We’re now over 250 people, spread across Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, London, Paris, New Jersey, Oslo, LA, Singapore, Tokyo, Manila, Bangkok and Lagos.

We’re a team of pretty decent people who enjoy working with each other. We’re open-minded and well-traveled, coming from all parts of the world. We’ve got rappers, producers, cello players, DJs, and songwriters. The passion for music and the excitement for innovative technology have proven to make a good combination.

BMAT has grown as a company of companies. Within BMAT there are a number of products and services that developed semi autonomously for different players – Digital Service Providers, Publishers and Collective Management Organisations.

Diverse perspectives drive innovation, and innovation is kind of our thing. Our open-minded and flexible culture organically fosters this diversity. We’ve learnt that we thrive on learning from each other, so we don’t just welcome but actively hire a range of open-minded people from all walks of life. Our team is made up of people with different backgrounds, perspectives, orientations, abilities, musical tastes, dress sense and time-zones - but we all have one common goal: Making the music world a better place. With equal opportunities for everyone, BMAT is a pretty nice place to work.