GCP DEVOPS ENGINEER (Cloud Infrastructure

Experience

• 5+ years of professional DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure engineering experience
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Terraform in production environments (preferably managing 50+ resources)
• 3+ years of production experience on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or equivalent (AWS/Azure) with deep expertise in 2+ major GCP services
• 2+ years managing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
• Proven experience building and maintaining disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) strategies
• Experience operating customer-facing, high-availability services with 99%+ uptime targets
• Track record of incident response and on-call operations in production environments

Technical Skills - GCP & Cloud Platforms

Core GCP Services

• Compute: Deep expertise with Cloud Run (containerized workloads), Cloud Functions (serverless), Compute Engine
• Databases: Firestore (NoSQL), BigQuery (data warehouse), Cloud SQL (relational databases)
• Messaging & Streaming: Pub/Sub, Dataflow
• Storage: Cloud Storage (GCS), Firestore Backup & Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR)
• Networking: VPC, Cloud Load Balancer, Cloud Armor, VPN, Cloud Interconnect
• Security: Cloud IAM, Secret Manager, Cloud KMS, Security Command Center
• Monitoring & Observability: Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, Profiler
• Deployment & Orchestration: Cloud Deploy, GKE (optional but valuable)

Infrastructure-as-Code & Terraform

• Advanced Terraform proficiency: modules, variables, outputs, state management, remote backends
• Terraform best practices: version control, testing, CI/CD integration
• Terraform Cloud / Enterprise (optional, valuable for remote state management)
• Terraform testing frameworks: Terratest, checkov, terraform validate, tflint
• Policy-as-Code: OPA/Conftest or similar for infrastructure policy enforcement
• Hands-on experience managing 50+ cloud resources with Terraform
• Git workflow and code review processes for infrastructure code

CI/CD & Deployment Automation

• GitHub Actions expertise (workflow design, custom actions, secrets management)
• GitHub Advanced Security: code scanning, dependency scanning, secret scanning
• Container technologies: Docker, container registries (Artifact Registry, Container Registry)
• Blue-green and canary deployment strategies
• Infrastructure-as-Code testing and validation in pipelines
• Automated rollback and disaster recovery procedures
• Monitoring deployment quality metrics

Observability & Monitoring

• OpenTelemetry instrumentation and integration
• Google Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging
• Sentry for error tracking and alerting
• Dashboard design and visualization (Grafana, Cloud Monitoring dashboards)
• Alert design, incident triage, and escalation procedures
• Metrics collection, tracing, and debugging distributed systems