Cloud Operations & Engineering Specialist - JG

Experience Required

• 6+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, cloud operations, or SRE

• 4+ years hands-on with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Key Responsibilities

• Design, provision, deploy, and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure

• Work extensively with GCP services: Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, IAM, VPC, Load Balancing, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring

• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (HCL, modules, variables, remote state, state locking, environments, drift handling, code review)

• Build CI/CD pipelines with Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI

• Manage networking: VPC, firewall rules, private connectivity, load balancers, DNS, NAT, VPN, Interconnect, Cloud Router, Shared VPC, hub-spoke architecture

• Handle production troubleshooting: logs, metrics, alerts, incident response, performance, reliability, cost optimisation

• Script in Bash, Python, or Go

• Apply security best practices: IAM least privilege, service accounts, secrets, KMS, audit logging

Must-Have Skills

• Strong GCP expertise (mandatory)

• Terraform (HCL, modules, remote state, reusable templates, environment separation)

• Kubernetes basics (deployments, services, ingress, config maps, secrets, autoscaling, troubleshooting)

• Linux administration & scripting

• CI/CD tools (Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)

• Monitoring & logging (Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Prometheus, Grafana)

Nice to Have (Trainable)

• GKE Autopilot vs Standard decisioning

• Anthos / GKE Enterprise exposure

• Cloud Deploy, Artifact Registry

• FinOps & cost optimisation

• Policy as Code (OPA, Sentinel, Terraform controls)

Short Summary Looking for Cloud/DevOps Engineers with strong hands-on GCP infrastructure experience, Terraform provisioning, CI/CD, and production operations. GCP expertise is mandatory.