Cloud DevOps Engineer (Google Cloud Platform)

About the Role

This is a 6-month+ contract role for a Cloud DevOps Engineer specializing in Google Cloud Platform.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and run Google Cloud Platform infrastructure.
• Provision and manage core Google Cloud Platform services, including: VMs (Linux and Windows) on Compute Engine, GKE clusters, Dataproc clusters, Cloud SQL instances
• Automate provisioning, config, and deployments using Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, or Cloud Deployment Manager.
• Monitor and tune platforms for performance, cost, and scale using Google Cloud Operations Suite (Stackdriver), Prometheus, and/or Grafana.
• Keep things secure: IAM, network controls, and encryption.
• Partner with app teams to speed up delivery and improve reliability.
• Troubleshoot prod/non-prod issues, then complete RCA and documentation.
• Implement backup and disaster recovery for critical services and data.
• Translate requirements into design specs aligned to business agreements.
• Work well in a team and pick things up quickly.

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years in IT development/engineering.
• Bachelor's or master's in computer science/engineering (or similar).
• Google Cloud Platform certs (Professional Cloud Dev Ops Engineer / Cloud Architect) are a bonus.
• Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid setups.
• Must-have: hands-on GKE, Helm, and Kubernetes app deployment experience.
• Hands-on with Python and Google Cloud Platform services: Composer/Airflow, Data Fusion, Big Query, Cloud Storage, GCE, Dataflow.
• Solid Dev Ops tooling knowledge: Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, Git Hub, etc.
• Comfortable on Unix/Linux and with shell scripting.
• Monitoring/logging experience with Cloud Operations, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Good grasp of networking: VPCs, firewalls, load balancers, DNS.
• Strong Git skills, including branching strategies.