Senior GCP Infrastructure Engineer — Remote (Freelance)

Collective; France; Remote; EUR 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Collective is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (GCP) to join a highly experienced infrastructure team responsible for designing, building, and operating a large-scale cloud platform.

You will lead architecture decisions, collaborate with Data Engineering and infrastructure teams, and own reliability, performance, and security across globally distributed systems. This freelance/remote role offers challenging projects and strong ownership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Infrastructure/SRE/Production Eng at senior/staff level
• 3+ years production experience with GCP including GKE, VPC, Load Balancing, IAM, GCS, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Monitoring/Logging
• Proven experience operating large-scale production infrastructure across multi-region deployments
• Advanced Terraform expertise: modules, state, refactoring, CI/CD integration, and policy as code
• Strong system design skills for distributed systems and cost trade-offs
• Deep Kubernetes expertise: scheduling, networking, RBAC, storage, Helm/Kustomize, operators, production troubleshooting
• Excellent Linux and networking knowledge; perf, strace, tcpdump, eBPF
• Production-grade Go or Python code; Go preferred
• Fluent English, written and spoken

Responsibilities

• GCP architecture: design, maintain, and optimize cloud infra with GKE, Compute Engine, VPC, IAM, and more
• Infrastructure as Code: manage Terraform modules, reproducible environments, CI/CD, and reviews
• Kubernetes operations: run and scale production GKE, autoscaling, security, observability
• Site Reliability Engineering: define SLOs, monitor, alert, incident handling, blameless postmortems
• Production operations: ensure reliability, apply security patches, capacity planning, backups, DR, on-call
• Cloud cost optimization: monitor spend, sizing, committed usage, cost-efficiency initiatives
• Automation: build internal tools, pipelines, and operators to reduce manual work
• Security: least-privilege IAM, secrets management, Linux hardening, secure CI/CD
• Data infrastructure: collaborate on scalable data pipelines for globally distributed infra
• Technical leadership: review designs, document best practices, mentor engineers

Skills

GCP

Python

Golang

Site reliability

Linux

Kubernetes

Cloud Architecture

Terraform

Tools

GKE

Compute Engine

VPC

IAM

GCS

BigQuery

Pub/Sub

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

Collective is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (GCP) to join a highly experienced infrastructure team responsible for designing, building, and operating a large-scale cloud platform.

You will lead architecture decisions, collaborate with Data Engineering and infrastructure teams, and own reliability, performance, and security across globally distributed systems. This freelance/remote role offers challenging projects and strong ownership.