Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Join PASQAL, a leading company in the Neutral Atom Quantum Computing space. As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you will design, harden, and operate the infrastructure behind the PASQAL Cloud Platform. You will take ownership of our public cloud architecture, primarily on GCP, and work closely with the Infrastructure Engineering Manager. This is a senior individual-contributor role with design responsibility, and you will primarily focus on cloud infrastructure while occasionally contributing to HPC cluster resources.

Missions

• Conception, durcissement et exploitation de l'infrastructure derrière la plateforme cloud de PASQAL.
• Proposition et exécution d'une feuille de route d'amélioration séquencée en étroite collaboration avec le responsable de l'ingénierie des infrastructures.
• Amélioration et exploitation de la plateforme avec GCP, y compris le réseau, l'identité, les préoccupations multi-régionales et multi-locataires.

Profil recherché

- DevOps & CI/CD: Hands-on GitOps and CI/CD expertise, including progressive rollouts and GitLab administration (GitHub also welcome)

- Collaborative mindset: Work effectively across software, quantum research and hardware teams; propose, challenge constructively and build consensus

- Team development: Help others grow through reviews, pairing and knowledge sharing, without formal management responsibility

- Production ownership: Ability to participate confidently in on-call rotations

- Infrastructure: Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Linux and cloud networking

- Security-first mindset: Solid knowledge of IAM, least privilege, secrets management, encryption and vulnerability management

- Platform evolution: Ability to audit existing systems, prioritize improvements and deliver changes incrementally

- Professional English: Ability to collaborate and document effectively in English

- Autonomy & impact: Take ownership, focus on results and navigate ambiguity and legacy systems confidently

- Clear communication: Explain architectural choices and trade-offs to technical and non-technical teams, and document decisions, runbooks and standards

- Cloud architecture: Proven experience designing public cloud platforms, ideally on GCP. Strong AWS expertise welcome with a willingness to ramp up on GCP

- Service mesh (Istio), external-dns, Grafana/LGTM observability stack, Cloud Armor

- Exposure to HPC and SLURM scheduling

- Multi-region or sovereign-cloud deployments

- Experience with regulated or audited environments (SOC2, ISO 27001, NCA CCC/ECC)

- Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKS)

- Experience with data engineering architectures