DevOps Engineer (GCP Based)

Were looking for a DevOps Engineer (GCP) who thrives at the intersection of automation, reliability, and cloud architecture. Youll play a critical role in shaping a secure, scalable, and highly available Google Cloud ecosystem, enabling engineering teams to ship faster and safer.

This is a hands-on role with real ownership — from infrastructure design to production reliability — where your decisions directly impact system performance, cost efficiency, and developer velocity.

What Youll Be Responsible For

• Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and fault-tolerant GCP infrastructure using Terraform as the primary IaC tool.
• Ensure consistent Dev, Staging, and Production environments through robust Terraform state management and best practices.
• Operate and optimise Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters and core compute services including Compute Engine and Cloud Run.
• Architect and manage end-to-end CI/CD pipelines (Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, Jenkins, GitLab CI) to automate testing, artefact creation, and deployments.
• Embed security scanning, compliance checks, and quality gates into pipelines to support a strong DevSecOps culture.
• Implement and maintain observability frameworks across GCP using Cloud Monitoring & Logging, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Define, track, and report SLIs and SLOs to balance reliability with delivery speed.
• Participate in on-call rotations, lead deep Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and drive preventative improvements after incidents.
• Design and manage IAM policies following the principle of least privilege.
• Implement network security controls including VPC design, firewall rules, Cloud Armor, and encryption standards.
• Manage application secrets and credentials using Google Secret Manager or HashiCorp Vault.
• Proactively monitor cloud spend and identify cost-optimisation opportunities without compromising performance.
• Perform capacity planning and performance tuning across GCP services.
• Mentor development teams on DevOps best practices and GCP architecture.
• Maintain high-quality technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, runbooks, and operational procedures.

What Were Looking For

• 2+ years experience as a DevOps Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer, with demonstrable hands-on expertise in Google Cloud Platform.
• Advanced proficiency in Terraform for managing complex, production-scale GCP infrastructure.
• Strong experience running Kubernetes in production, preferably GKE.
• Solid scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go for automation and tooling.
• Deep understanding of GCP networking: VPCs, load balancing, peering, DNS, CDN, VPN/Interconnect.
• Experience managing GCP managed databases such as Cloud SQL, BigQuery, or Spanner.
• GCP Certifications, such as: Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Cloud Security Engineer
• Experience with advanced observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk).
• Hands-on knowledge of configuration management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps practices (SAST, DAST, container vulnerability management).
• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical thinking in high-pressure environments.
• Clear, confident communication skills — able to translate complex technical topics for diverse stakeholders.
• A collaborative mindset with experience mentoring engineers and leading small technical initiatives.

Nice to Have

• Proven experience with cloud migration projects (on-prem or multi-cloud to GCP).
• Strong exposure to serverless architectures (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, App Engine).
• Hands-on FinOps experience on GCP, using Billing Reports, Recommenders, or Cost Management APIs.
• Advanced database experience with PostgreSQL on Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, or BigQuery.
• Experience implementing advanced security controls using Security Command Centre (SCC) or Cloud Armor (WAF/DDoS protection).