GCP Infrastructure & Capacity Engineer - Remote

Blue Lynx Employment BV; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Lynx Employment BV is recruiting a Google Cloud Engineer for Infrastructure Operations & Capacity to join a fully remote European team. The role focuses on scalable GCP management, capacity planning, and reliability for a high-volume SaaS environment.

You will handle Compute Engine, VPCs, MIGs, and monitoring, while maintaining incident readiness and cost controls in a fast-paced setting. English fluency required and remote collaboration across borders.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or site reliability roles.
• Hands-on production experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience maintaining reliable production systems under variable traffic.
• Strong GCP, Linux, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), capacity planning, autoscaling, and networking skills.
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes (GKE), high-volume SaaS/telecom environments, FinOps, or AI-driven infrastructure automation is a plus.
• Comfortable with on-call responsibilities and production incident response.
• Proactive approach to capacity, reliability, and cloud cost management.
• Ability to work independently in a fully remote environment.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and manage server and compute capacity across GCP so we never run short, including proactive scaling ahead of demand
• Manage core GCP resources - Compute Engine instances, VPC networking, load balancers, Managed Instance Groups (MIGs)
• Set up and maintain monitoring, alerting, and uptime dashboards for infrastructure health
• Act as first responder on infrastructure incidents and alerts - triage, resolve, and escalate when needed
• Manage backups, disaster-recovery readiness, and basic security hardening (patching, firewall rules, IAM)
• Track and optimise cloud spend - right-sizing instances, reserved capacity, eliminating waste
• Maintain clear infrastructure documentation and incident runbooks
• Support deployments and releases from an infra-readiness standpoint, working closely with the Backend and Platform Engineer and VoIP Engineer

Skills

GCP experience

Terraform

Capacity planning

Kubernetes

English fluency

On-call readiness

Tools

Docker

GKE

Monitoring tooling

Job description

Blue Lynx Employment BV is recruiting a Google Cloud Engineer for Infrastructure Operations & Capacity to join a fully remote European team. The role focuses on scalable GCP management, capacity planning, and reliability for a high-volume SaaS environment.

You will handle Compute Engine, VPCs, MIGs, and monitoring, while maintaining incident readiness and cost controls in a fast-paced setting. English fluency required and remote collaboration across borders.