GCP DevOps Engineer

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on Cloud Operations Engineer to configure, automate, and operate secure, reliable Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments. You will keep the cloud platform running smoothly day to day — provisioning and configuring GCP services, automating infrastructure with Terraform, running CI/CD through GitHub Actions, operating GKE, and maintaining strong monitoring and observability. This is a delivery-focused engineering role for someone who thrives on automation, reliability, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• GCP Services Configuration & Operations: Configure and operate core GCP services — networking, databases, compute, API gateway, Pub/Sub, Cloud Identity, and IAM — ensuring availability, performance, and reliability.
• Monitoring & Observability: Set up and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and dashboards; proactively detect issues, respond to incidents, and uphold service-level objectives.
• Infrastructure as Code: Build and maintain modular, reusable Terraform to provision and manage GCP infrastructure with consistency and drift control across environments.
• DevSecOps & CI/CD: Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, embedding security controls — secrets scanning, image scanning, and policy-as-code — into the delivery workflow.
• Identity, IAM & Policy: Configure Cloud Identity and IAM, organization and security policies, and least-privilege access models and guardrails.
• DNS & CDN: Configure and maintain Cloud DNS, Cloud CDN, and load balancing for performant, resilient service delivery.
• GKE Operations: Automate GKE cluster provisioning, upgrades, and lifecycle management, and support the migration of workloads to GKE.
• Platform Engineering: Contribute to internal developer platforms and self-service tooling using tools such as Spotify Backstage — maintaining templates, golden paths, and reusable modules.
• Automation & Continuous Improvement: Script and automate operational tasks to reduce toil, improve reliability, and increase delivery velocity.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years in IT/cloud operations with 3+ years hands-on operating Google Cloud Platform.
• Solid, hands-on experience configuring and monitoring GCP services.
• Strong expertise with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices with GitHub Actions.
• Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes/GKE, including cluster automation and workload migrations.
• Working knowledge of GCP networking, compute, managed databases, API gateway, Pub/Sub, Cloud Identity, and IAM.
• Experience with cloud networking — DNS, CDN, and load balancing.
• Proficiency with monitoring/observability tooling (Cloud Operations suite, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Proficiency in at least one scripting/automation language (Python, Go, or Bash).

Preferred (Nice to Have)

• Google Associate Cloud Engineer and/or Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification.
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices and incident-management experience.
• Familiarity with GitOps (Argo CD / Flux) and platform-engineering tooling (Spotify Backstage).
• Exposure to FinOps and cloud cost optimization.

What You'll Bring

Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, an automation-first mindset, attention to reliability and security, and the ability to collaborate closely with architects, developers, and client stakeholders.