Cloud Platform Engineer

Talentbyte

1d • Remote

About The Position

Brite Payments is seeking a seasoned Cloud Platform Engineer to serve as a key source of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) expertise within its Platform Engineering team. The role focuses on architecting, optimizing, and scaling cloud infrastructure while ensuring reliability, security, and efficiency across the organization. This is a fully remote role for candidates based in the EU, with the possibility of traveling to the Stockholm headquarters. The position is offered on a B2B contract basis.

The engineer will guide GCP infrastructure design and optimization, implement infrastructure as code, establish monitoring and reliability standards, optimize cloud costs and resource usage, and enable self-service and automation. The role also champions site reliability engineering practices and supports deployment and operational workflows.

The hiring process consists of a 60-minute conversation with the Engineering Manager, a 60-minute team meeting that may include a case or live coding discussion, and a 30–40-minute meeting with the Engineering Lead, followed by a background clearance check and personality testing. A live coding exercise is part of the process. Equipment is provided, and the company does not use tracking tools or require working-time reports or trackers.

Requirements

• Proven expertise architecting, implementing, and managing GCP infrastructure, including practical experience with AppEngine, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, and BigQuery.
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Stackdriver, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Proficiency in containerization, such as Docker, and orchestration.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python or Bash.
• Expertise troubleshooting and resolving cloud infrastructure performance issues.
• Familiarity with incident response practices and a proactive approach to minimizing service interruptions and maintaining uptime.

Nice To Haves

• GCP cost management and optimization.
• CI/CD workflow knowledge.
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.
• Cloud-native development insights.

Responsibilities

• Architect and optimize GCP infrastructure.
• Provide GCP expertise and leadership.
• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Establish monitoring and reliability standards.
• Optimize cloud costs and resource usage.
• Enable self-service and automation.
• Champion SRE and reliability best practices.
• Support deployment and operational workflows.

Benefits

• Paid vacation days.
• Paid sick leave.
• Work fully remotely from anywhere in the EU.
• Freedom from working-time reports or trackers.
• Company-provided equipment.
• Opportunity to collaborate with industry talent on fintech technology.
• Opportunity to make an impact on the product stack, solutions, and work framework.
• Possibility of traveling to headquarters.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed