Role Summary
The DevOps Engineer will support day-to-day production operations and provide DevOps enablement for new project builds within a GCP environment. This role balances steady-state production support (deployments, monitoring, incident response) with project-based work (setting up new environments, pipelines, and infrastructure for new initiatives).
Key Responsibilities
- Provide production deployment support — plan, schedule, execute, and validate releases with minimal downtime.
- Support new project by setting up GCP environments, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure from scratch.
- Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines (Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar) for build, test, and deployment automation.
- Manage GCP infrastructure components: GKE (Kubernetes), Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, VPC networking, and IAM.
- Write and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / Deployment Manager) for repeatable, version-controlled environment provisioning.
- Monitor production systems using Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Prometheus/Grafana; configure alerts and dashboards.
- Participate in incident response and troubleshooting — root cause analysis, hotfix deployment, and post-incident documentation.
- Manage containerization and orchestration (Docker, GKE) including scaling, upgrades, and configuration management.
- Implement and enforce security best practices: IAM policies, secrets management, network security, and compliance guardrails.
- Collaborate with development, QA, and product teams to align release schedules and environment needs.
- Maintain runbooks, deployment guides, and architecture/process documentation.
- Support on-call rotation for production issues as needed.
Required Skills & Experience
- 5–7 years of hands-on DevOps/Cloud Engineering experience, with demonstrable GCP expertise.
- Salesforce Experience is a PLUS
- Strong working knowledge of core GCP services: GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud Build, Cloud Functions, VPC, IAM, Cloud Monitoring/Logging.
- Experience with CI/CD tooling (Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or Spinnaker).
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred; Deployment Manager a plus).
- Solid scripting ability in Python and/or Bash/Shell.
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (GKE).
- Working knowledge of Git and branching strategies.
- Understanding of networking fundamentals (VPC, load balancing, DNS, firewall rules).
- Familiarity with monitoring/observability tools (Cloud Operations Suite, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
- Exposure to security/compliance practices in cloud environments (IAM least-privilege, secrets management).
Desired / Good to Have
- GCP certification (Associate Cloud Engineer or Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer).
- Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid environments.
- Exposure to Agile/Scrum delivery practices.
