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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # NOC Operator - **Company:** Sateliot - **Location:** Barcelona, Spain - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, JIRA, Bash Shell, Issue Tracking Systems, Internet Protocol, Python (Programming Language), Linux Commands, Wireless Networks, Mobile Network Operator, Datadog, Scripting, Grafana - **Published:** August 22, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.jobleads.com/es/job/e56f65eae732db0feedff6aa101e0ac9e ## About the Role * Technical education in telecommunications, networking, computing or a comparable field - vocational qualification or degree are equally welcome. * Entry-level position: up to 2 years of experience. * Working understanding of IP networking: addressing, routing, and how to reason about where traffic is interrupted. * Comfortable working in a Linux command line. * Discipline and attention to detail when working to documented procedures. * Clear written communication - escalations and handovers are primarily written. * Availability to work in a shift rota. * Spanish and English., * Any prior exposure to a NOC, service desk or continuous-operations environment. * Familiarity with observability tooling such as OpenSearch or Grafana, and with ticketing systems such as Jira. * Basic scripting in Python or Bash. * Interest in mobile networks, 3GPP concepts, NB-IoT or satellite systems. * SS7 and Diameter signalling basic knowledge * Interest in applying AI-assisted tooling to reduce repetitive operational work. ## Description * Proactively monitor the network service end to end during your shift (satellite and ground core network, feeder/service links, and the routes towards our mobile network operator partners), identifying potential issues before they impact service delivery. * Triage alarms using the established runbooks: classify, verify, apply the documented first-line response, and judge accurately what to resolve and what to pass on. * Own the ticket lifecycle: Take responsibility for tracking assigned incidents until resolution, ensuring stakeholders are updated and final closure criteria are met, even when tasks involve collaboration across different teams. * Manage partner communications: Act as the primary point of contact for mobile network operator (MNO) partners during service-impacting events, ensuring they receive clear, timely updates that maintain trust and transparency during recovery efforts. * Escalate effectively to second-line teams when a runbook reaches its limit, providing the context - what you observed, what you tried, what changed - that lets the receiving engineer continue without repeating your work. * Maintain accurate records: incidents raised and tracked in the ticketing system, actions logged, timelines correct. * Run shift handover rigorously, so that open issues carry their full state across the change of shift. * Contribute to the knowledge base: you are the person best placed to notice where a runbook is unclear or incomplete. Flag it, and help improve it. * Support planned activity: execute your part of maintenance windows, releases and commissioning campaigns under the applicable procedures. * Feed the improvement loop: report noisy alarms, false positives, observability gaps and manual steps worth automating., * Real impact on one of Europe's most ambitious space projects. * Growth: we cover 50% of courses or master's degrees (up to 5% of your salary), plus Spanish and Catalan classes. * Health & balance: 50% on private health insurance and Urban Sports Club, a flexible schedule, and hybrid work, we focus on results, not hours. * Flexible Compensation: flexible compensation through Cobee (meal, transport, kindergarten). * A truly global team: 20+ nationalities building something genuinely new - and genuinely nice to work with. Great vibes, real teamwork. * A real welcome: a dedicated buddy from day one. * Life outside work: we organize leisure and sports activities both during and outside working hours - because great teams connect beyond the screen. * Catering: if you don't have time to cook, we partner with a catering company so a freshmeal is sorted, no need to think about it. * Parking: on-site parking at the office, with Sateliot covering 50% of the cost - plus free bike parking if you prefer to pedal in. ## Related Videos - [Debugging in the Dark](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1658-debugging-in-the-dark) - [5 steps for running a Kubernetes environment at scale](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/88-5-steps-for-running-a-kubernetes-environment-at-scale) - [Improving quality with Agentic AI with Rovo Dev and Xray](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2005-improving-quality-with-agentic-ai-with-rovo-dev-and-xray) - [Your Infrastructure Is Not a Playground: AI Agents for Infra Done Right](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2084-your-infrastructure-is-not-a-playground-ai-agents-for-infra-done-right) - [Software Engineering Social Connection: Yubo’s lean approach to scaling an 80M-user infrastructure](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1583-software-engineering-social-connection-yubo-s-lean-approach-to-scaling-an-80m-user-infrastructure) - [All your telemetry data from any source in one place](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/57-all-your-telemetry-data-from-any-source-in-one-place) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Spanish Business Culture and Etiquette](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/353-spanish-business-culture-and-etiquette) - [Best Companies in the Netherlands: Top 25 Companies in 2023 ](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/193-best-companies-in-the-netherlands-top-25-companies-in-2023) - [How to land a developer job in Amsterdam](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/36-how-to-land-a-developer-job-in-amsterdam)