Consultant SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) – Environnement GCP

About ALTEN

ALTEN is a global leader in engineering and technology consulting, supporting major clients for over 30 years in their innovation, digital transformation, and IT performance projects.

Present in over 30 countries, the group brings together more than 50,000 employees and works on high-value-added projects in strategic sectors such as banking, energy, telecommunications, and industry.

In a context of strong technological evolution, ALTEN is strengthening its IT expertise around cloud, data, cybersecurity, and critical systems. Joining ALTEN means integrating a demanding, stimulating, and constantly evolving environment with real development prospects.

Job Description

As part of our development, we are supporting our major retail clients on their cloud transformation projects.

Your Role: SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) Consultant – GCP Environment

As an SRE, you will be involved in the entire lifecycle of platforms and will be responsible for their reliability, availability, and performance.

Your Detailed Missions:

Reliability & System Performance

• Ensure high availability of critical applications (SLA/SLO)
• Define and monitor performance indicators (SLI)
• Identify bottlenecks and propose optimizations (latency, throughput, scalability)
• Implement capacity planning and auto-scaling strategies

Automation & Industrialization

• Automate recurring operational tasks (run) via scripting (Python, Bash)
• Implement robust and secure CI/CD pipelines
• Deploy and maintain infrastructures via Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Participate in environment standardization (templates, reusable modules)

GCP Cloud Expertise

• Design, deploy, and maintain architectures on Google Cloud Platform
• Administer Kubernetes environments (GKE)
• Optimize the use of GCP services (compute, storage, networking)
• Ensure cost management (FinOps / budget optimization)

Monitoring & Observability

• Implement and improve monitoring, logging, and tracing tools
• Configure relevant alerts and reduce noise (alert fatigue)
• Operate tools like Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, Grafana
• Implement business and technical-oriented dashboards

Incident Management & Continuous Improvement

• Participate in on-call duties and production incident management
• Conduct post-incident analyses (post-mortem, RCA)
• Implement action plans to prevent recurrence
• Define and improve operational processes (runbooks, playbooks)

Security & Compliance

• Integrate cloud security best practices (IAM, access management, secrets)
• Participate in audits and environment compliance
• Ensure resilience against security incidents

Collaboration & DevOps Culture

• Work closely with Dev, Ops, and Cloud Architect teams
• Support teams in adopting SRE / DevOps practices
• Participate in Agile rituals (daily, sprint, retrospective)
• Document architectures and technical processes

Technical Environment:

• Cloud: GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
• Containerization: Kubernetes (GKE), Docker
• IaC: Terraform
• CI/CD: GitLab CI, Jenkins or equivalent
• Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Monitoring (Stackdriver)
• Scripting: Python, Bash

Qualifications

Profile Sought:

• Master's degree or engineering degree in computer science
• Minimum 7 years of experience in production / cloud / SRE / DevOps
• Solid experience on GCP
• Good understanding of distributed environments and cloud architectures
• Ability to work in an international environment (English communication)

Additional Information

Location: Île-de-France

Contract Type: CDI

Why Join Us?

• Innovative, high-value-added projects
• Stimulating technical environment
• Career development and support opportunities