Freelance GitLab / DevOps Engineer

Whale BV; Oost-Vlaanderen; Híbrido; EUR 90.000 - 140.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Hybrid remote work

Flexible working hours

Descripción de la vacante

Whale BV is Ghent-based and seeking a freelance GitLab/DevOps Engineer to speed up delivery pipelines and improve developer productivity. You will audit the current setup, define a performance plan, and implement optimizations across GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure.

The role offers hybrid remote work and a builder mindset to deliver measurable improvements. We value 5+ years in production SaaS, deep GitLab CI/CD expertise, and strong Kubernetes experience.

Formación

• 5+ years of DevOps/SRE or platform engineering experience in production SaaS.
• Deep expertise in GitLab CI/CD and pipeline optimization.
• Ability to reduce CI bottlenecks via caching, parallelization, DAG optimization.
• Production Kubernetes expertise including deployments, reliability, scaling.
• Strong Bash scripting and IaC understanding.
• Experience supporting TS and Python environments.

Responsabilidades

• Audit current setup and define a performance improvement plan.
• Implement optimizations across GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud infra.
• Own execution end-to-end: measurement, rollout, and iteration.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to speed up pipelines.
• Monitor, alert, and incident response workflows.

Conocimientos

GitLab CI/CD

Kubernetes

GCP

Docker

Bash scripting

TypeScript

Python

IaC

Monitoring & incident response

Linux production

Herramientas

Kubernetes

Docker

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

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.