Cloud Platform Engineer

About Brite

Founded in 2019 Brite Payments is a leading open bankingpowered accounttoaccount (A2A) payment provider of instant payments payouts and other financial services in Europe. Brite is committed to creating fast secure and transparent payment solutions that reduce risk for businesses and provide consumers with the best possible payment experience.

At the heart of Brite is our proprietary instant payments network Brite IPN which enables realtime 24/7 transaction processing with no delays signups or card details required. Today Brite connects with over 3800 banks in 27 European markets and is committed to delivering cuttingedge nextgeneration payment solutions that meet the markets evolving needs.

Headquartered in Stockholm Brite has offices in London and Malaga and now numbers over 150 colleagues.

Want to join us on our journey The future is Brite!

About the role

At Brite Payments were looking for a seasoned Cloud Platform Engineer with deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to be the backbone of GCP competence within our Platform Engineering team. In this role you will be instrumental in architecting optimizing and scaling our cloud infrastructure ensuring reliability security and efficiency across our organization. As a key team member youll focus on enhancing our GCP environment empowering product teams with the tools practices and resources they need to effectively manage their products throughout their lifecycle.

This position emphasizes handson work with GCP infrastructure and services. Youll lead efforts in designing a solid scalable and costeffective platform setting the standard for GCP best practices and enabling our product teams to operate with efficiency and confidence.

What You Will Do

• Architect and Optimize GCP Infrastructure: Design build and maintain a resilient scalable and secure GCP environment that supports Brite Payments growth focusing on costeffectiveness and reliability.

• Provide GCP Expertise and Leadership: Serve as the teams GCP authority helping drive effective and innovative use of GCP services such as AppEngine Cloud Functions Cloud Run Pub/Sub BigQuery and others.

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using tools like Terraform enabling efficient resource provisioning scaling and management.

• Establish Monitoring and Reliability Standards: Create robust monitoring and alerting practices with tools like Stackdriver Prometheus or Grafana to ensure system health and rapid incident response.

• Optimize Cloud Costs and Resource Usage: Continuously evaluate and apply strategies to enhance resource utilization on GCP ensuring infrastructure is both costeffective and efficient.

• Enable SelfService and Automation: Develop selfservice tools and automated workflows that empower product teams to manage their own resources independently enhancing efficiency and reducing dependencies.

• Champion SRE and Reliability Best Practices: Promote Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles within the team fostering a culture of stability reliability and proactive system management.

• Support Deployment and Operational Workflows: Work to ensure that GCP infrastructure aligns with deployment and operational requirements providing guidance on CI/CD workflows automation and cloudnative development practices.

We have a flexiblehybrid work model with an office in central Stockholm.

Required Skills

• Deep GCP Knowledge: Proven expertise in architecting implementing and managing GCP infrastructure including practical experience with services such as AppEngine Cloud Functions Cloud Run Pub/Sub and BigQuery.

• Infrastructure Automation Proficiency: Skilled in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform to drive efficient and scalable cloud management practices.

• Monitoring and Observability Experience: Strong background in using tools like Stackdriver Prometheus or Grafana for maintaining system health and visibility.

• Containerization and Orchestration: Proficient in containerization (e.g. Docker) and orchestration to support efficient scaling and resource usage in cloud environments.

• Scripting and Automation Skills: Proficiency in scripting languages like Python or Bash enabling you to create scalable and reusable automation solutions for cloud infrastructure management.

• Performance Optimization Abilities: Expertise in troubleshooting and resolving performance issues within cloud infrastructure ensuring efficient and reliable operations.

• Incident Management Experience: Familiarity with incident response practices and a proactive approach to minimizing service interruptions and maintaining uptime.

Preferred Skills

• Cost Management and Optimization on GCP: Experience implementing strategies to control cloud costs including efficient resource scaling and usage optimization on GCP.

• CI/CD Workflow Knowledge: Familiarity with CI/CD practices enabling product teams to streamline deployments and improve reliability using cloudnative tooling.

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Principles: Knowledge of SRE best practices and experience in applying them to improve operational resilience and platform stability.

• CloudNative Development Insights: Understanding of microservices architectures and the best practices for building managing and scaling applications in a cloudnative environment

Why Join Us

As a Cloud Platform Engineer at Brite Payments your work will establish the foundation for highquality resilient cloud infrastructure that supports our ambitious growth. Youll drive GCP best practices enabling product teams to be selfsufficient while ensuring they have a scalable reliable and costeffective platform to build on. Join us to make a meaningful impact on our cloud platform and be part of an innovative team dedicated to operational excellence across Brite Payments.

What we offer

• An optimistic caring and inclusive culture where you can be yourself.
• A dynamic fastpaced and innovative environment with the chance to join one of Europes hottest fintechs and learn from industry leaders.
• The opportunity to make an impact from day one in an organisation that values quick decisionmaking teamwork and results over titles.
• Exposure to a variety of verticals and use cases for our payments products working with some of the fastestgrowing businesses in Europe.
• An annual wellbeing and professional development allowance to invest in your personal growth.
• A team of fun skilled professionals who together raised the largest Series A ($60m) in Europe last year join colleagues who are committed to making a lasting impact.

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