GCP Cloud Engineer

Role- GCP Cloud Engineer (GCP/AWS)

Desired Experience Range- 5-12 Years

Location- Bangalore (Walkin Drive)

Job Requirements*

• 5-10 years of experience in Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a related role.
• Hands-on expertise with Google Cloud Platform and enterprise cloud implementation practices.
• Strong experience with Compute Engine, Virtual Private Cloud, Identity and Access Management, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, load balancing, and Cloud DNS.
• Experience deploying and managing containerized workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine.
• Hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform, including reusable modules and secure state management.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent tools.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, identity management, governance, network controls, and least-privilege access.
• Experience in monitoring, logging, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and production support.
• Knowledge of high availability, backup, disaster recovery, and resilient cloud architecture patterns.
• Proficiency in Python and/or Shell scripting for automation and operational tooling.
• Good understanding of Agile delivery and DevOps methodologies.

Key Responsibilities*

• Design, implement, and manage secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure on GCP.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and standardized reusable modules.
• Deploy, configure, and operate containerized workloads on GKE.
• Configure networking components, including VPCs, subnets, routes, firewalls, load balancers, VPNs, and DNS.
• Implement IAM policies, security controls, governance standards, and compliance requirements.
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, release, and deployment processes.
• Monitor cloud environments and optimize performance, reliability, availability, and cost.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, network, platform, and application issues across environments.
• Collaborate with application, security, architecture, and operations teams.
• Support cloud migration, modernization, platform engineering, and automation initiatives.
• Maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, and knowledge assets.
• Contribute to continuous improvement, standardization, and engineering excellence.

Technical Skills - Mandatory

Skills / Technologies

• Cloud Platform
• Google Cloud Platform, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL
• Networking and Security
• VPC, IAM, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud DNS, firewall rules
• Containers
• Docker, Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine
• Infrastructure as Code
• Terraform, reusable modules, remote state management
• CI/CD
• Cloud Build, GitHub / GitLab, Jenkins or equivalent
• Operations
• Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, alerting and troubleshooting
• Automation
• Python and/or Shell scripting

Technical Skills - Good to Have

• Anthos
• Cloud Run
• Pub/Sub
• Dataflow
• BigQuery
• FinOps and cloud cost optimization
• Exposure to AWS and/or Microsoft Azure

Soft Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Stakeholder management and collaboration
• Analytical thinking and structured problem solving
• Customer-focused mindset
• Teamwork in distributed and cross-functional environments
• Documentation and knowledge sharing

Preferred Certifications

• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
• Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
• Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate.