Senior DevOps Engineer
First seen by Alion on Aug 22, 2026.
About the Role:
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with 5 - 10 years of experience to manage and improve cloud infrastructure, deployment platforms, automation, and reliability across Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience with GCP, Kubernetes/GKE, Terraform, CI/CD, and cloud operations, with the ability to troubleshoot and operate infrastructure in regulated or closed-network environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage, configure, and support GCP infrastructure and cloud platform services.
- Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot containerized workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
- Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and Argo CD.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployments, operational tasks, and environment management.
- Monitor platform health, performance, availability, and resource utilization.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure, Kubernetes, deployment, and application-platform issues.
- Implement cloud security, access controls, configuration management, and operational best practices.
- Support modern data platform services and workloads running on GCP.
- Contribute to platform reliability, scalability, disaster recovery, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Work closely with development, data engineering, security, and architecture teams to support production environments.
- Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and infrastructure standards.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 510 years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with GCP.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes and GKE.
- Hands-on expertise in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience with GitLab CI/CD and Argo CD.
- Good understanding of cloud networking, security, IAM, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Experience supporting production cloud environments.
- Strong understanding of containers, Linux, automation, and deployment practices.
- Experience working in regulated, secure, or restricted-network environments is preferred.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
Skills
DevOps, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, Terraform, CI/CD Pipeline, Cloud Services, Cloud Infrastructure, Google Kubernetes Engine