Senior DevOps Engineer - GCP

Description:

Infrastructure Automation & Platform Engineering

- Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure primarily on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform and reusable infrastructure modules.

- Build self-service platform capabilities that enable engineering teams to provision and manage infrastructure efficiently.

- Implement infrastructure standards, governance controls, and automation frameworks across multiple environments.

CI/CD & Release Engineering

Design, build, and optimize enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines using tools such as:

- GitHub Actions

- Jenkins

- GitLab CI/CD

- Harness

Drive deployment automation, release management, environment provisioning, and configuration management practices.

Improve deployment reliability through progressive delivery approaches, automated testing, and deployment guardrails.

Champion GitOps and Infrastructure-as-Code practices across the engineering landscape.

Cloud Architecture & Operations

Provide technical leadership and guidance on cloud architecture, best practices, and operational excellence.

Support cloud-native services including:

- GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine)

- Cloud Run

- Cloud Functions

- Pub/Sub

- Cloud SQL

- Apigee

- VPC Networking

- IAM

- Cloud Monitoring

- Design resilient and observable systems aligned to enterprise security and reliability standards.

- API Platform & Marketplace Enablement

- Build and maintain infrastructure supporting enterprise API platforms and external marketplace services.

- Enable secure onboarding of internal and external API consumers.

- Establish standardized deployment and operational processes for API products and services.

- Support API gateway technologies such as Apigee and enterprise integration platforms.

- Drive incident management, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.

- Improve platform availability, scalability, and performance through automation and engineering improvements.

- Monitoring & Observability

- Implement enterprise monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability solutions.

Utilize tools including:

- Prometheus

- Grafana

- Google Cloud Monitoring

- ELK/Elastic Stack

- OpenTelemetry

- Proactively identify issues before they impact customers and engineering teams.

- Develop dashboards and operational reporting for platform health and reliability.

- DevSecOps & Security

- Embed security best practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

- Integrate automated vulnerability scanning, code analysis, policy enforcement, and compliance controls into CI/CD pipelines.

- Partner with Cyber Security teams to ensure compliance with internal and regulatory requirements.

- Support implementation of secure identity and access management controls across cloud platforms.

Operational Excellence:

- Lead resolution of complex production incidents and service disruptions.

- Continuously improve operational procedures, runbooks, and platform support processes.

- Drive automation initiatives that reduce manual effort and improve service reliability.

- Identify opportunities for cloud cost optimization while maintaining performance and resilience.

- Mentoring & Leadership

- Mentor junior engineers and promote DevOps best practices across the engineering community.

- Collaborate with architects, developers, testers, platform teams, and product owners.

- Drive engineering excellence through knowledge sharing, technical leadership, and continuous learning.

What You'll Need

- Essential Skills & Experience

- DevOps & Cloud Engineering

- Proven experience (10+ years) in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.

- Significant experience operating highly available production systems at enterprise scale.

- GCP Expertise (Essential)

Strong hands-on experience with:

- GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine)

- Cloud Run

- Cloud Functions

- Pub/Sub

- Cloud SQL

- VPC Networking

- IAM

- Cloud Monitoring

- Secret Manager

- Cloud Storage

- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

- Expert-level knowledge of Terraform.

- Experience building reusable infrastructure modules and automation frameworks.

- Experience with policy-as-code and infrastructure governance.

Kubernetes & Containerization

- Strong experience with:

- Kubernetes

- Docker

- Container security

- Service mesh technologies

- Experience operating production Kubernetes environments.

- CI/CD & Release Management

Experience with:

- GitHub Actions

- Jenkins

- GitLab CI/CD

- Harness

- ArgoCD (desirable)

Strong understanding of:

- GitOps

- Deployment strategies

- Release automation

- Configuration management

- API & Integration Technologies

Experience working with API Gateway technologies such as:

- Apigee

- Azure API Management

- Kong (desirable)

- Strong understanding of:

- REST APIs

- OpenAPI Specifications

- OAuth2

- JWT

- API Security Standards

- Observability & Monitoring

Experience with:

- Prometheus

- Grafana

- ELK Stack

- OpenTelemetry

- Google Cloud Monitoring

- Scripting & Automation

Proficiency in one or more of:

- Python [optional]

- Bash

- Go

- PowerShell

- Networking & Security

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