Senior DevOps GCP Engineer
Senior DevOps Engineer (Google Cloud Platform) Location Remote (U.S.) About The Role We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to build, operate, and optimize our cloud infrastructure and application delivery platforms within Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role is focused on improving platform reliability, security, automation, and developer productivity. You'll work closely with product engineering teams to support cloud-native applications, improve CI/CD processes, implement Infrastructure as Code, and ensure production systems remain secure, scalable, and highly available.
What You'll Do
- Manage and support production workloads running on Google Cloud Platform
- Design, implement, and maintain Kubernetes platforms using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
- Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines to support reliable application delivery
- Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
- Monitor, triage, and remediate security vulnerabilities across cloud infrastructure and applications
- Respond to operational and security incidents and drive root cause analysis
- Design and maintain observability solutions including monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing
- Partner with product engineering teams to troubleshoot application and infrastructure issues
- Automate operational processes to improve efficiency, consistency, and reliability
- Support disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity requirements
- Participate in on-call rotations and production support activities
- Lead post-incident reviews and implement preventative improvements
Core Tech Stack Google Cloud Platform
- GKE
- Cloud Run
- Compute Engine
- Cloud SQL
- Cloud Storage
- Cloud DNS
- Load Balancing
- Cloud Armor
- IAM
- VPC Networking
Infrastructure & Automation
- Terraform
- GitLab CI/CD
- GitOps methodologies
Containers & Platform
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Argo CD
Observability & Operations
- Datadog
- Cloud Monitoring
- Cloud Logging
- OpenTelemetry
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Operations
- Strong hands-on experience operating production workloads in Google Cloud Platform
- Experience designing, administering, and troubleshooting Kubernetes environments, preferably GKE
- Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
- Experience integrating security scanning into CI/CD pipelines and enforcing quality and security gates prior to deployment
- Strong understanding of software supply chain security, including artifact integrity, SBOMs, and secure dependency management
- Experience with monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident response practices
- Programming experience with Python (preferred) and familiarity with Go, KCL, or similar languages
- Ability to collaborate closely with software engineering teams and support production workloads
Nice to Have
- Experience with GitLab CI/CD and GitOps workflows
- Experience with Argo CD
- Familiarity with Cloud Armor, Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP), and GCP security services
- Experience operating multi-cluster Kubernetes environments
- Knowledge of FinOps and cloud cost optimization practices
- Experience with OpenTelemetry and modern observability frameworks
- Experience supporting high-traffic, customer-facing production platforms
What Makes You Successful
- You prioritize automation, reliability, and operational excellence
- You take ownership of systems and drive issues through resolution
- You proactively improve platform security and resiliency
- You collaborate effectively across engineering, security, and platform teams
- You continuously seek opportunities to reduce operational toil and improve developer experience
Impact You will play a key role in ensuring our cloud platforms remain secure, scalable, and highly available while enabling engineering teams to deliver software quickly, safely, and reliably.