GCP Cloud Engineer

Role Overview

This role focuses on cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, runtime observability, and security reliability within a platform engineering context.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain cloud infrastructure, demonstrating strong hands-on experience with GCP or another hyperscaler.
• Utilize Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
• Manage cloud networking, IAM, and service accounts.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, Jenkins).
• Automate operational tasks using scripting languages like Bash or Python.
• Implement release management and deployment strategies (e.g., blue/green, canary, rolling).
• Manage containerised platforms (Docker, Cloud Run, Kubernetes).
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions.
• Apply cloud security fundamentals, including IAM and secrets management.
• Implement reliability and availability best practices.

Requirements

• 5–8+ years of experience in DevOps / Platform / Site Reliability Engineering roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with GCP or another hyperscaler.
• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Experience managing networking, IAM, and service accounts in cloud environments.
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, Jenkins).
• Experience automating operational tasks using scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python).
• Familiarity with release management and deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling).
• Experience running containerised platforms (Docker, Cloud Run, Kubernetes).
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools.
• Solid understanding of cloud security fundamentals (IAM, secrets management, least privilege).
• Experience working in distributed or offshore teams.