EU Infrastructure Lead: GCP, Kubernetes & Automation

Augmodo; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Augmodo is expanding its engineering footprint and seeks an Infrastructure Engineer to anchor EU operations. You will oversee reliability, drive 24/7 coverage during EU hours, and mentor regional teams across Europe and APAC.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in production software engineering, strong GCP and Kubernetes expertise, and fluency with Python/Go for automation. Expect collaboration across distributed teams and a focus on scalable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering in a production environment.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or math.
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience running and scaling workloads in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• 3+ years of experience managing production Kubernetes clusters (GKE experience is a big plus).
• Proficiency in Python and Go for building infrastructure automation, APIs, and operational tooling.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Pulumi), CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.).
• High degree of self‑direction and clear async communication skills, with experience thriving in distributed team environments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary infrastructure contact during EU working hours, extending coverage to support cross-regional needs in APAC (AUS) and EMEA.
• Build, scale, and optimize infrastructure dedicated to supporting our growing EMEA teams and regional customer deployments.
• Proactively manage system health, monitoring, alerting, and incident response for GCP-based workloads to maintain high availability.
• Automate deployments, manage Kubernetes clusters, and build internal tooling that empowers developers to ship code safely and fast.
• Establish effective async workflows and handoff protocols with other infrastructure teams to ensure seamless 24/7 continuity.

Skills

Python

Go

Self-direction

Async communication

Distributed teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or math

Tools

GCP

Kubernetes (GKE)

Terraform/Pulumi

CI/CD pipelines

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Job description

Augmodo is expanding its engineering footprint and seeks an Infrastructure Engineer to anchor EU operations. You will oversee reliability, drive 24/7 coverage during EU hours, and mentor regional teams across Europe and APAC.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in production software engineering, strong GCP and Kubernetes expertise, and fluency with Python/Go for automation. Expect collaboration across distributed teams and a focus on scalable infrastructure.