Senior GCP Cloud Operations Engineer

Job Title: Senior GCP Cloud Operations Engineer

About the Role :

We are looking for an experienced Senior GCP Cloud Operations Engineer to manage, provision, deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Terraform, Kubernetes (GKE), infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and production operations.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, provision, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform.

• Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, including reusable modules, remote state, state locking, and environment separation.

• Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot containerised applications using Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

• Configure and manage GCP services, including Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, IAM, VPC, Cloud DNS, and Load Balancing.

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or equivalent tools.

• Manage cloud networking components, including subnets, firewall rules, Cloud NAT, Cloud Router, VPN, private connectivity, and Shared VPC.

• Monitor infrastructure health, investigate incidents, troubleshoot production issues, and improve system reliability and performance.

• Implement cloud security best practices, including least-privilege IAM, service accounts, secrets management, and audit logging.

• Develop automation scripts using Bash, Python, or Go.

• Identify opportunities for cloud cost optimisation and operational efficiency.

Required Skills :

• 6+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE.

• ~4 years of hands-on experience working with GCP services.

• Strong proficiency in Terraform (HCL, modules, state management).

• Hands-on experience with GKE, Kubernetes deployments, and troubleshooting.

• Strong understanding of GCP networking (VPC, load balancing, VPN).

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Linux administration, and scripting (Bash/Python/Go).

• Ability to explain infrastructure trade-offs and failure scenarios.

Good to Have :

• Experience with GKE Autopilot, Anthos, Cloud Deploy, Artifact Registry, FinOps, and Policy as Code (OPA/Sentinel).

Pay: ₹7,000,000.00 - ₹8,000,000.00 per year

Application Question(s):

• How many years of hands-on GCP experience do you have?

• Do you have hands-on experience managing GKE/Kubernetes in production?

• Have you worked with GCP networking, including VPC, Cloud NAT, load balancing and DNS?

• Are you eligible and available to work remotely for a US-based company from your current location?

• CTC

• ECTC

• How soon can you join?

Work Location: Remote