Senior Cloud GCP Systems Engineer

Google Cloud Platform, DevOps

Hyderabad, Pune, Bangalore, Gurgaon, Chennai

We are looking for a skilled and motivated Senior Cloud GCP Engineer to join our dynamic team.

As a Senior GCP Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and managing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) solutions to ensure optimal performance, scalability, and reliability. If you have a strong background in cloud technologies and a passion for building and maintaining cloud infrastructure, this role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to our cloud-based initiatives.

Responsibilities

Play a key role in maintaining fault-tolerance, high-availability, scalability, and security on Google Cloud Infrastructure and Platform
Develop and oversee the implementation of CI/CD pipelines with automated build and test systems
Manage Production Deployment using Multiple Deployment Strategies
Automate the Google Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Deployment with Infrastructure as Code
Automate System Configurations using Configuration Management Tools
Implement Microservices Concepts and Best Practices
Facilitate application development by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities
Address issues promptly, with a mindset geared toward continuous improvement
Carry out POCs to ensure suggested design/technologies meet the requirements
Quickly learn the services used in the environment

Requirements

Background in cloud technologies with 5 to 8 years of overall experience and a minimum of 3 years of production experience on any public cloud
Good communication skills
Mentoring experience for system engineers and junior system engineers
Proficiency in GCP Services: Compute(CE, AE, CF, GKE, CR, Pub/Sub), Storage, and Data tools
Expertise in GCP Networking fundamentals including VPC, VPN, Peering, Interconnect, and GCP Security fundamentals such as IAM, Service Accounts, Workload Identity
Skills in Container Orchestration and Container Registry - GCR
Experience setting up Load Balancer, Auto Scaling, databases, firewall rules, etc., along with knowledge of Backup and Recovery methodology on GCP
Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code Tooling like Terraform and at least one Configuration management tool like Ansible, Packer, Salt, Chef or Puppet
Familiarity with Containerization (e.g., Dockers and Kubernetes)
Understanding of Unix/Linux administration, Unix shell scripting (bash), and CI/CD Pipelines and tooling (GitLab, Jenkins, Bamboo, Circle CI)
Experience with Cloud Migration / Modernization including automated infrastructure discovery using GCP native tools and leveraging GCP migration toolset such as Migration Center, Database Migration Service, and Cloud Foundation Toolkit
Knowledge of modernizing applications from VM/servers to container-based deployment architecture and optimization of Total Cost of Ownership in the GCP landscape

Nice to have

Coding experience with modern languages like Python, Groovy
Application development experience

Technologies

GCP
Linux
Networking
CI/CD
Jenkins
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform/Ansible
Python/shell