Freelance GitLab / DevOps Engineer

Whale BV; Belgique; Híbrido; EUR 83.000 - 124.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Hybrid remote work

Long-term freelance engagement

Descripción de la vacante

Whale is seeking a Freelance GitLab/DevOps Engineer in Ghent to accelerate our production SaaS pipelines. You will audit the current CI/CD and cloud stack, define a performance plan, and implement optimizations across GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, and GCP.

You’ll own delivery end-to-end, including measurement, rollout, and continuous improvement, while collaborating with product and engineering teams. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in DevOps, deep GitLab CI/CD expertise, strong Linux, Docker

Formación

• 5+ years of DevOps/SRE/platform engineering experience in production SaaS environments.
• Deep expertise in GitLab CI/CD and ability to significantly reduce pipeline duration.
• Identify and remove CI bottlenecks through caching, parallelization, DAG optimization, runner strategy, and test splitting.
• Experience with Kubernetes in production (deployments, reliability, scaling, troubleshooting).
• Strong hands-on experience with GCP.
• Advanced experience with Docker image optimization and build performance.
• Comfort writing and maintaining automation scripts in Bash.
• Support developers working in TypeScript and Python environments.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and reproducible environments.
• Experience setting up monitoring, alerting, and incident response workflows.
• Experience maintaining and deploying production environments.
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Deployments.
• Strong Linux production experience, incident response, and release reliability.

Responsabilidades

• Significantly speed up delivery pipelines and improve developer productivity.
• Audit current setup, define a performance plan, and implement concrete optimizations across GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure.
• Own execution end-to-end including measurement, rollout, and continuous improvement.

Conocimientos

DevOps/SRE

GitLab CI/CD

Kubernetes

GCP

Docker

Bash scripting

TypeScript

Python

IaC

Monitoring/Alerting

Herramientas

GitLab CI/CD

Kubernetes

Descripción del empleo

Whale is on a growth trajectory and eager to welcome new members to our pod!
As a Ghent-based SaaS company hailing from Belgium, we’re dedicated to becoming the fastest way to get teams aligned.

However, our focus isn’t solely on ourselves. Let’s begin by explaining how becoming a Freelance GitLab/DevOps Engineer at Whale can enhance your professional life:

Becoming a pod member means you can count on:

• A long-term freelance collaboration with meaningful product impact
• A modern cloud-native stack (GCP, GitLab, Kubernetes, Docker)
• Flexibility and autonomy in how you organize your work
• A healthy working environment with flexible working hours and hybrid remote work
• A caring team who’s there every step of the way

You’ll fit right in if:

• You have 5+ years of DevOps/SRE/platform engineering experience in production SaaS environments
• You have deep expertise in GitLab CI/CD and a proven track record of significantly reducing pipeline duration
• You can identify and remove CI bottlenecks through caching, parallelization, DAG optimization, runner strategy, and test splitting
• You are highly experienced with Kubernetes in production (deployments, reliability, scaling, troubleshooting)
• You have strong hands-on experience with GCP
• You have advanced experience with Docker image optimization and build performance
• You are comfortable writing and maintaining automation scripts in bash
• You can support developers working in TypeScript and Python environments
• You understand infrastructure as code and reproducible environments
• You have experience setting up monitoring, alerting, and incident response workflows
• You have experience in maintaining and deploying production environments
• You have experience with Continuous Integration and Deployments
• You have a strong understanding of Linux in production environments, incident response, and release reliability

We’re looking for someone with a strong builder mindset and a history of delivering measurable infrastructure and CI/CD improvements.

What you’ll be doing:

Together with the product & engineering team, your mission is to significantly speed up our delivery pipelines and improve developer productivity. You’ll audit the current setup, define a performance plan, and implement concrete optimizations across GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure. You’ll own execution end-to-end, including measurement, rollout, and continuous improvement.

The mission you’ll join:

Whale is on a mission to becoming the fastest way to get teams aligned. Offering an incredibly easy to use piece of software, Whale is basically the organization’s brain: it stores its procedures and helps employees to learn them.