Expert DevOps Consultant with GCP

Type of contract: B2B contract

Salary range: 170 - 210 PLN/H

What will you do?

You will join an agile engineering team responsible for building and developing a highly resilient, scalable and performant cloud platform on GCP. You will combine hands-on DevOps engineering with technical leadership, working closely with application DevOps teams and cross-functional IT teams to automate infrastructure, improve cloud services, maintain security and operational standards, and support reliable application deployments.

Your tasks

• Build and manage the GCP foundation platform supporting application deployments
• Lead technical delivery and provide guidance on GCP and DevOps engineering practices
• Design and implement GCP infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
• Integrate, configure, deploy and manage common cloud services including IAM, networking, logging, operating systems and containers
• Manage software-defined networking in GCP
• Work with hardened Linux and Windows operating systems
• Ensure cloud solutions comply with defined security standards
• Ensure compliance with operational risk standards related to networking, firewalls, operating systems, logging, monitoring, availability and resiliency
• Build and support continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous testing processes
• Implement centrally provided platform and operating system patches
• Support non-functional testing activities
• Maintain operational and support documentation
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and support application teams
• Ensure effective change management practices in line with established standards
• Provide impact assessments for proposed changes to the GCP core platform
• Drive automation, platform reliability and continuous improvement across the cloud environment

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and Terraform
• Experience building, managing and supporting cloud foundation or cloud platform environments
• Strong knowledge of GCP networking and software-defined networking concepts
• Good understanding of IAM and cloud security
• Experience with Linux and Windows operating systems in enterprise environments
• Experience with container technologies
• Strong experience with CI/CD and automated deployment processes
• Understanding of logging, monitoring, availability and resiliency concepts
• Experience working with security and operational risk requirements in enterprise environments
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Experience supporting application teams and resolving cloud infrastructure issues
• Experience with change management processes in complex IT environments
• Ability to provide technical leadership and support engineering teams in technical decision-making
• Ability to work effectively in an agile and cross-functional environment
• Openness to work hybrid from our client's office (Kraków) 2 days a week

Nice to have

• Experience working with large-scale enterprise GCP platforms
• Experience with highly regulated or security-focused environments
• Experience with cloud platform hardening and security controls
• Experience with non-functional testing of cloud infrastructure
• Experience evaluating and adopting new GCP products and services