GCP DevOps

Experience

• professional DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure engineering experience
• hands-on experience with Terraform in production environments (preferably managing 50+ resources)
• production experience on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or equivalent (AWS/Azure) with deep expertise in 2+ major GCP services
• managing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
• Proven experience building and maintaining disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) strategies
• Experience operating customer-facing, high-availability services with 99%+ uptime targets
• Track record of incident response and on-call operations in production environments

Technical Skills - GCP & Cloud Platforms

Core GCP Services

• Compute : Deep expertise with Cloud Run (containerized workloads), Cloud Functions (serverless), Compute Engine
• Databases : Firestore (NoSQL), BigQuery (data warehouse), Cloud SQL (relational databases)
• Messaging & Streaming : Pub/Sub, Dataflow
• Storage : Cloud Storage (GCS), Firestore Backup & Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR)
• Networking : VPC, Cloud Load Balancer, Cloud Armor, VPN, Cloud Interconnect
• Security : Cloud IAM, Secret Manager, Cloud KMS, Security Command Center
• Monitoring & Observability : Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, Profiler
• Deployment & Orchestration : Cloud Deploy, GKE (optional but valuable)

Skills

Experience with Cloudflare (Workers, edge computing, WAF/DDoS)

• Kubernetes/GKE experience (container orchestration, Helm, operators)
• Experience with data pipelines (Dataflow, Cloud Composer/Airflow)
• Cost optimization expertise (RI analysis, committed use discounts, workload-based sizing)
• Experience with multi-region or multi-cloud deployments
• Background in platform engineering or building internal developer platforms (IDP)
• Exposure to governance and compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR)
• Experience with chaos engineering and resilience testing (Gremlin, Chaos Toolkit)
• Knowledge of API Gateway, Apigee or similar
• Experience with service mesh (Istio, Consul) - optional
• Terraform Cloud or Terraform Enterprise administration
• Linux/Unix system administration background