Senior Infrastructure Engineer: Legacy Stability to Cloud Modernization

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

BarkleyOKRP is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to act as the operational backbone of our engineering team. The role focuses on taking ownership of legacy VM environments (Java/Tomcat and MySQL) while shaping modern cloud architecture for future projects.

You will manage incidents, tune performance, and implement IaC using Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes on GCP, balancing reliability with forward-looking modernization across on-prem and cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a System Administration, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Infrastructure Operations role within an enterprise environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the incident management lifecycle for production, triage alerts, troubleshoot OS-level bottlenecks, and perform root-cause analysis.
• Actively monitor system performance and logs using observability platforms to quickly diagnose issues.
• Proactively maintain, patch, and secure existing VMs on GCP.
• Monitor MySQL 5.7, manage backups, and troubleshoot connection pool issues.
• Collaborate to design, provision, and scale cloud infrastructure for new products using modern tools.
• Gradually replace manual tasks with automation scripts and IaC to reduce toil.
• Ensure security and compliance with enterprise baselines through OS hardening and patching.

Skills

Linux administration

Performance tuning

Troubleshooting

Incident management

Calm under pressure

SRE practices

Communication

Tools

Java/Tomcat

MySQL 5.7

Bash scripting

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Cloud SQL

BigQuery

Google Cloud Platform

CI/CD workflows

Job description

BarkleyOKRP is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to act as the operational backbone of our engineering team. The role focuses on taking ownership of legacy VM environments (Java/Tomcat and MySQL) while shaping modern cloud architecture for future projects.

You will manage incidents, tune performance, and implement IaC using Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes on GCP, balancing reliability with forward-looking modernization across on-prem and cloud environments.