Cloud Operations Engineer - GCP

Job Title - Cloud Operations GKE Engineer

Skill Set : GCP; GKE; Jenkins; Linux

Relevant Experience(in yrs) 6-9 years

Type : Contract - Long-term multiyear

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Job Overview :

The Cloud Operations Engineer is responsible for building and supporting the client’s technical infrastructure of hardware and system software that drives the success of our client's and their customers.

As a Cloud Operations Engineer, you will be part of a dynamic team with engineers of all experience levels who help each other build and grow technical and leadership skills while deploying and supporting production infrastructure.

The Cloud Operations Engineer contributes to foundational infrastructure as code elements that can be reused as well as architectural diagrams and other related documentation.

The Cloud Operations Engineer participates in the selection and lead the implementation of physical and virtual infrastructure to meet evolving enterprise and product team needs.

As a Cloud Operations Engineer you will be a core player that participates and leads multiple efforts simultaneously.

Position Responsibilities :

Support and Enablement -

• Collaborates with product and project teams to understand needs and enable them with infrastructure;
• Supports technology architecture design review efforts for project and product teams; Leverages tooling and custom applications to monitor the operational status of applications, infrastructure, networks, databases, and security;
• optimizes and tunes performance as appropriate;
• Drives root cause analysis, debugging, support, and post-mortem analysis for security incidents and service interruptions;
• Maintains, upgrades, and supports existing systems and infrastructure to ensure operational stability;
• Acts as a vendor liaison, owning resourcing, issue management, and documentation; Leads the production of in-house documentation around solutions;
• Provides application support for software running in production; Acts as a mentor to more junior Systems Engineers;
• Drives converting KB articles into AI models; Drives changes to analytic models used to analyze performance

Delivery and Execution -

• Leads configuration, debugging, and support for information technology solutions; Leads field and corporate rollouts of technology;
• Leads the stand up of necessary system software, hardware, and equipment (physical or virtual) to meet changing infrastructure needs;
• Creates and optimizes specifications for technology solutions;
• Produces and manages purchase requests for hardware and software;
• Leads development of test suites (functional, destructive, etc) to enable successful rapid deployment of infrastructure as code to production

Required Skills :

• 6-9 years of relevant work experience in Cloud Operations or DevOps Engineering
• Professional or educational experience in multiple Information Technology disciplines
• Proficiency in working as part of a collaborative, cross-functional engineering team
• Expertise with cloud platforms, with a strong focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Strong expertise in GCP products, including GKE, BigQuery, and Kubernetes
• Experience with Terraform Enterprise and Vault
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code, High Availability, and Performance monitoring
• Experience with CI / CD toolchains and version control systems
• Proficiency in troubleshooting and remediation across multiple IT disciplines
• Experience with compiled programming languages and scripting (Python or Go preferred)
• Experience in system security design and management
• Proficiency in supporting a 24x7 financial operation
• Broad understanding of Google Cloud services and products
• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices
• GCP Cloud Architect Certification (preferred)

Direct Manager / Direct Reports :

• This position typically reports to Systems Engineer Manager or Sr Manager
• This position typically has 0 Direct Reports

Minimum Qualifications :

• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
11 days ago