Infrastructure Architect with GCP

The opportunity:

Join us at the forefront of digital transformation as a GCP Infrastructure Architect, where you'll have the chance to architect and optimize solutions for some of the world's most recognized brands. This isn't just another technical role – it's an opportunity to shape the future of enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure and make a lasting impact on global digital commerce.

The ideal candidate will have extensive GCP Infrastructure experience, working within Commerce and Retail.

This is a role with requirements to travel to Herzogenaurach, Germany 

What you’ll get to do:

• Optimising existing GCP and GraphQL infrastructure estate from a cost and resource-usage perspective 
• Optimising containerisation deployment and scaling strategies, incl. version control and resource-usage optimisation 
• Consulting on said optimisation for senior client stakeholders 
• Ongoing design and deployment of core GCP and GraphQL Infrastructure services, including container-based infrastructures 
• Building multi-layered caching strategies to improve overall system performance 
• Providing strategies for new environments to support Performance testing 
• Implementation of strategies to improve cost allocation/tagging 
• Optimisation of existing CI/CD pipelines, including shift-left testing and increased automation in QA and infrastructure provisioning  
• Owning the view of e2e infrastructure and observability in the context of configuration management, improving performance, and reducing costs 

What you should have:

Understanding and communicating the strengths and weaknesses, from experience and education, of:  

• Infrastructure and Configuration as Code  
• Safe Deployment strategies and CI/CD  
• GCP Cloud-based and Cloud-native system design  
• Observability  
• Developer Experience  
• Cost and performance optimised infrastructure design 
• DevOps and SRE 

You will also need experience in: 

• Delivering Cloud Infrastructure solutions as part of an experienced cross-disciplinary team with hands-on experience leading the design, development and deployment of business applications at scale 
• Commerce and retail experience
• Extensive experience with GCP Cloud Infrastructure 
• Acting as a technical authority with Customer facing skills to engage and steer discussions on best practice and risk mitigation 
• Familiarity with IaC languages – Terraform, Terragrunt, Cloud DSL for IaC 
• Hands-on with GCP – incl. Cloud Run, GKE, Endpoints, Loadbalancers, Functions, Storage, Firestore, Pub/Sub 
• Practical DevOps experience with Pipelines, Repos and Artifacts  
• Experience with Kubernetes, and familiarity with differing Cloud implementations  
• Hands-on with Terraform – familiarity with Terragrunt, Terraform  
• Experience with Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments  
• Management of Automation Tooling – incl. GitHub Actions and Environments, Jenkins, CircleCI 
• Experience with automated testing tools (e.g. JMeter) 
• Familiarity with Observability tooling (e.g. NewRelic, Coralogix, DataDog) incl. setup and problem resolution 

What we offer:

• Salary depending on presented skills: 26 880 - 36 960 PLN monthly (B2B contract) 
• Remote job as well as possibility to visit our offices in Poznań, Katowice and Bydgoszcz 
• Work equipment with delivery to your door 
• Opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world