DevOps Engineer

Job summary :

We are looking for an experienced GCP DevOps Engineer with 6+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, and containerized environments.

The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Google Cloud Platform, which will account for approximately 90% of the role, with around 10% exposure to AWS.

The candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, automating, monitoring, and maintaining highly available and scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines in a Mumbai-based onsite environment.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design, deploy, and manage scalable infrastructure primarily on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application build, testing, and deployment.

- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

- Manage and optimize GCP compute, networking, storage, IAM, and security services.

- Work with containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes/GKE.

- Implement and manage Kubernetes deployments, services, ingress, configurations, and scaling.

- Develop automation scripts using Shell/Bash, Python, or similar scripting languages.

- Monitor cloud infrastructure, applications, deployments, and system performance.

- Troubleshoot production issues related to infrastructure, deployments, networking, and application availability.

- Implement logging, monitoring, alerting, backup, and disaster-recovery practices.

- Manage source control and branching strategies using Git.

- Collaborate with developers, architects, security teams, and other stakeholders.

- Identify opportunities to improve deployment speed, reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

- Support AWS-based environments and services where required.

Required Skills :

GCP - Mandatory :

- Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform.

- Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

- Compute Engine / VM management.

- VPC, subnets, firewall rules, load balancing, and cloud networking.

- IAM and service accounts.

- Cloud Storage.

- Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging.

- Cloud Build / CI/CD.

- Artifact Registry or similar GCP container registry.

- Experience with GCP security and access management.

DevOps & Automation :

- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines.

- Hands-on experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, or similar tools.

- Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools.

- Strong knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.

- Git and version-control practices.

- Linux administration and troubleshooting.

- Scripting experience in Shell/Bash and/or Python.

AWS - Secondary :

- Basic to moderate hands-on experience with AWS.

- Understanding of services such as EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and EKS.

- Ability to support or troubleshoot AWS environments when required.

Preferred Qualifications :

- Experience working in production enterprise cloud environments.

- Experience with highly available and scalable architectures.

- Knowledge of cloud security and DevSecOps practices.

- Experience with monitoring and observability tools.

- Experience with Helm and Kubernetes deployment strategies.

- Understanding of networking, DNS, SSL/TLS, and load balancing.

- Experience with Agile/Scrum development environments.

- Relevant GCP or DevOps certifications would be an advantage.

Ideal Candidate :

The ideal candidate should be a hands-on DevOps professional with strong GCP expertise, capable of independently managing cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes environments, automation, monitoring, and production troubleshooting.

GCP expertise is the primary requirement, with an approximate 90% GCP / 10% AWS focus.

Skills

DevOps, Google Cloud Platform, Docker, Kubernetes, IAC Terraform, CI/CD Pipeline, Google Kubernetes Engine, Python, Shell Scripting, Cloud Storage, Monitoring Tools