DevOps Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

DevOps Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 1QLabs Venture Studio is looking for a DevOps Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to own the platform that powers multiple AI-driven ventures. We're an Australian venture studio that launches AI-powered businesses on enterprise-grade infrastructure. Every product we ship runs on a cell-based architecture in Google Cloud Platform — cells can be siloed single-tenant or shared multi-tenant, and the same application deploys to any supported GCP region. Data sovereignty, compliance, security, and portability are structural requirements, not afterthoughts. We need someone who can own that foundation. You'll design, provision, and operate the GCP infrastructure that our engineering teams build within — Terraform-managed environments, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, observability stacks, and the security controls that let us onboard institutional clients. When we spin up a new venture or a new region, you make sure it has production-grade infrastructure from day one. Role Details Compensation: $110K–$160K AUD, based on experience, plus bonus Location: Remote-first, Sydney-based preferred Benefits: Flexible PTO, professional development budget (including certification costs), remote-first culture About 1QLabs We're an Australian venture studio that launches AI-powered businesses on enterprise-grade infrastructure, combining deep infrastructure expertise with enterprise-grade standards to power the next generation of AI-powered businesses. What You'll Do Design, provision, and maintain cell-based GCP infrastructure using Terraform, with each cell an isolated GCP project with its own databases, compute, networking, and security boundary. Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, or similar) that deploy across multiple ventures and cells with proper environment promotion (dev → staging → production). Manage Kubernetes clusters (GKE) including node pools, autoscaling, resource quotas, network policies, and workload identity federation. Implement and operate observability: structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, alerting, and incident response runbooks. Enforce security controls: IAM policies, VPC Service Controls, private networking, Cloud KMS, Assured Workloads for region-specific data residency, and zero-trust access patterns. Own disaster recovery: configure cross-region replication (e.g. Sydney primary, Melbourne standby), test failover procedures, and maintain RPO/RTO targets. Automate infrastructure drift detection, compliance policy audits, secret rotation, certificate management, and cost optimisation. Our Stack Infrastructure: Terraform, OpenTofu Cloud: GCP — Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud SQL, Firestore, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, VPC, IAM, Cloud KMS, Cloud Build CI/CD: Cloud Build, GitHub Actions Observability: Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring/Prometheus AI/ML: Vertex AI (GPU provisioning, model serving infrastructure) What We're Looking For Deep experience writing, reviewing, and maintaining production Terraform, including module structure, state management, and multi-environment deployments. Strong working knowledge of core GCP services and production experience with Cloud Run, GKE, or equivalent. Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with proper gating, rollback, and canary/blue-green strategies. Solid networking and security fundamentals: VPCs, firewall rules, private service connections, load balancers, DNS, and TLS certificate management.Experience setting up monitoring, logging, and alerting at scale, and debugging production incidents under pressure. A security and compliance mindset, with experience implementing controls in a regulated or compliance-driven environment. Nice To Have Experience with enterprise security and sovereign cloud requirements. SOC 2 Type II preparation or audit experience. Cell-based architecture experience — siloed and multi-tenant models, multi-region deployment. Cost optimisation and FinOps practices. Experience supporting AI/ML workloads. Valued Certifications Google Professional Cloud DevOps EngineerGoogle Professional Cloud ArchitectGoogle Professional Cloud Security EngineerGoogle Associate Cloud EngineerHashiCorp Terraform Associate/EngineerCertified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Not strictly required if you can demonstrate equivalent hands-on experience. How We Work This is primarily a hands-on infrastructure role, though Terraform/OpenTofu is increasingly managed through AI-assisted workflows — generating modules, reviewing plans, and iterating on configurations. Familiarity with agentic coding tools for infrastructure-as-code is a plus, but deep DevOps and GCP expertise is what matters most. Your infrastructure will power multiple startups simultaneously, built to institutional standards (SOC 2, ISO 27001) from day one, with real ownership over platform decisions. Apply at this post or email hello@1qlabs.ai with your resume/CV and certifications, examples of infrastructure work (Terraform repos, architecture diagrams, or a write-up of a production system you've built or operated).