Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

The Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer will design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure powering a modern, cloud-native SaaS platform. This hands-on engineering role focuses on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Kubernetes cluster operations, Terraform, and cloud networking. You will own critical infrastructure foundations, ensuring security, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency across production environments. Working closely with Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Security teams, you will improve infrastructure automation, observability, and operational resilience. The role offers opportunities to solve complex technical challenges, influence architectural decisions, and mentor fellow engineers. This fully remote US opportunity is ideal for an infrastructure specialist who enjoys deep technical ownership and building robust systems at scale.

• Professional Experience: At least three years of hands-on production experience designing, provisioning, operating, and troubleshooting cloud infrastructure.

• Google Cloud Platform: Strong knowledge of GCP services and networking, including VPCs, subnets, firewall rules, routing, Cloud NAT, Cloud DNS, Cloud Load Balancing, projects, IAM policies, service accounts, and security configurations.

• Kubernetes and GKE: At least three years of hands-on experience operating production Kubernetes clusters, preferably GKE. Experience must include cluster provisioning, administration, upgrades, and infrastructure-level troubleshooting; deploying applications into existing clusters alone is not sufficient.

• Kubernetes Architecture: Strong understanding of control planes, worker nodes, scheduling, networking, services, ingress, storage, resource management, node pools, autoscaling, resource requests and limits, and cluster capacity.

• Infrastructure as Code: At least three years of professional Terraform experience managing production cloud infrastructure, developing reusable modules, handling remote state, and implementing safe change-management processes.

• Automation and Version Control: Proficiency in scripting with Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages, along with experience using Git-based infrastructure workflows, code reviews, and automated validation.

• Linux and Networking: Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills, combined with a solid understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, routing, firewalls, and load balancing.

• Diagnostics and Problem-Solving: Ability to investigate complex infrastructure issues using logs, metrics, traces, packet-level analysis, and structured debugging techniques.

• Production Engineering: Experience designing secure, resilient, and scalable infrastructure for production workloads.

• Advanced Experience Preferred: Eight or more years of professional engineering experience and a background operating GKE clusters in large-scale, multi-cluster, or multi-region environments.

• Advanced GCP and Kubernetes Skills Preferred: Experience with GKE networking, Workload Identity, Gateway API, Ingress controllers, cluster autoscaling, multi-project GCP architectures, centralized networking, IAM governance, and infrastructure guardrails.

• Monitoring and Security Preferred: Experience operating Prometheus, Grafana, and centralized logging infrastructure, along with implementing Kubernetes RBAC, network policies, workload identity, and secrets management.

• Scale and Reliability Preferred: Experience executing major infrastructure migrations with minimal disruption, optimizing cloud costs, modeling capacity, and supporting highly available SaaS platforms or distributed systems at significant production scale.

• Technical Leadership Preferred: Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and improve infrastructure architecture, engineering practices, reliability, and maintainability.

• Work Authorization: Must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. Current or future employment visa sponsorship is not available.