Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Role overview Design, operate, and improve the cloud infrastructure that supports a production SaaS platform. This hands-on engineering role owns foundational cloud services and Kubernetes environments, with responsibility for reliability, security, scalability, and operational practices across the infrastructure lifecycle.

Responsibilities - Build and run production infrastructure on Google Cloud, including GKE, networking, load balancing, DNS, and identity services. - Own Kubernetes cluster provisioning, upgrades, node pools, autoscaling, capacity planning, and troubleshooting. - Create reusable Terraform modules and automated workflows for consistent infrastructure provisioning. - Diagnose complex issues across Kubernetes, Linux, networking, DNS, and distributed services. - Improve monitoring, logging, metrics, and alerting, and implement access and secrets controls. - Plan infrastructure upgrades and migrations, optimize reliability and cost, and work with platform, reliability, and security peers.

Requirements - At least 3 years of hands-on experience designing, provisioning, operating, and troubleshooting production cloud infrastructure. - At least 3 years operating production Kubernetes clusters, including direct cluster administration and upgrades. - Strong practical knowledge of cloud networking, including VPCs, subnets, firewall rules, routing, NAT, DNS, and load balancing. - Experience with cloud IAM, service accounts, infrastructure security, and debugging problems spanning multiple cloud services. - Understanding of Kubernetes architecture, node and workload management, networking, storage, scheduling, and cluster-level troubleshooting. - Experience with Terraform and infrastructure automation; the source also calls for observability and production incident skills.

Benefits and work setup - The source lists an annual U.S. hiring range of $150,000–$175,000, with placement depending on location and qualifications. - Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and wellness benefits are listed. Work authorization in the U.S. without employer visa sponsorship is required.