GCP Devops Engineer

Role & responsibilities

Minimum of 5 years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering role. • Solid understanding of Terraform and experience maintaining reusable module libraries. • Hands-on experience managing workloads on Kubernetes (preferably GKE). • Working knowledge of CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions and Helm. • Familiarity with Google Cloud services, including networking, Cloud SQL (Postgres), and container security. • Competence in observability tooling, especially Datadog dashboards and alert configurations. • Strong operational mindset with attention to detail in release processes and deployment integrity. Desirable Experience • Exposure to GitOps tool. • Experience developing or integrating Kubernetes operators. • Familiarity with service-level indicators (SLIs), service-level objectives (SLOs), and structured alerting. Tools and Expectations • Terraform / HCP Terraform - Core to infrastructure provisioning. Required to build, refactor, and maintain reusable infrastructure modules across environments, enforce naming/tagging standards, and leverage state management for drift detection and rollback. • GitHub / GitLab / GitHub Actions - Central to CI/CD workflows. Expected to enforce secure release procedures, set up integration with code quality tools, and prevent direct changes to critical branches. • Helm - Used for Kubernetes application packaging and deployment. Must implement pre/post deployment logic, rollback plans, and chart lifecycle automation. • GKE / Kubernetes - Platform for hosting applications. The engineer must manage node pools, service networking, security contexts, and namespace segmentation. • GCP Services (CloudSQL, VPC, IAM) - Backend for infrastructure workloads.