Senior DevOps Engineer (GCP, Terraform) Bucharest

Project Description:
Join our Development Center in Bucharest, and become a member of our open-minded, progressive and professional team. In this role you will be working on projects for one our world famous clients.
You will have a chance to grow your technical and soft skills, and build a thorough expertise of the industry of our client.
On top of attractive salary and benefits package, Luxoft will invest into your professional training, and allow you to grow your professional career.

Responsibilities:
Architect, design, implement, and maintain highly scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices, leveraging Terraform extensively for resource provisioning and configuration management.
Lead the development, optimization, and standardization of robust CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Workflows, ensuring efficient, reliable, and secure software releases.
Collaborate closely with development teams to embed DevOps practices, promote a culture of continuous improvement, and ensure optimal application performance and stability.
Automate complex operational tasks and processes, reducing manual effort and improving overall system efficiency and reliability.
Develop and maintain advanced scripts and tools for infrastructure automation, monitoring, and deployment across the GCP ecosystem.
Implement and enforce stringent security best practices, ensuring compliance and data protection across all infrastructure components and deployment processes, including the use of GCP Secret Manager.
Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior team members, fostering their growth and development.
Participate in on-call rotations and provide expert-level support for production systems, ensuring high availability and rapid issue resolution (if requested).

Mandatory Skills Description:
Expert-level proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools, specifically Terraform (a mandatory requirement).
Demonstrable expertise in cloud platforms, with significant hands-on experience and certifications in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Extensive experience with enterprise Security Management solutions, including advanced usage of GCP Secret Manager and other GCP security services (e.g., Cloud IAM, Security Command Center).
Proven track record in defining, implementing, and optimizing complex CI/CD flows, with deep expertise in GitHub Workflows.
Strong experience with containerization technologies: Docker (creating optimized images, multi-stage builds) and Kubernetes (cluster administration, deployments, scaling, using Terraform modules for cluster creation/management).
Proficient in developing and maintaining Helm Charts (templates, hooks, packaging, release management).
Solid experience in delivering high-quality, maintainable code within enterprise-scale development environments, adhering to best practices and code review processes.
In-depth working knowledge of environment monitoring tools such as GCP Operations (formerly Stackdriver), New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, for proactive incident detection and performance optimization.
Strong expertise in software development processes, models, lifecycles, and methodologies (Agile/Scrum).
Hands-on experience with service-mesh technologies like Istio or similar products for traffic management, security, and observability.
Advanced software development and scripting skills in at least one relevant language (e.g., Python, Go, Java, Bash, JavaScript).

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:
Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible or Chef.
Experience with AWS or Azure is a plus.