Intermediate Applications Developer

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Job Description Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – GCP Expert

Experience: 5 to 6 years

Location: [Insert Location or "Remote"]

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary We are seeking a skilled and proactive

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 5–8 years of experience and deep expertise in

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) . The ideal candidate will be responsible for the reliability, availability, and performance of cloud-based applications and infrastructure. You will collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to build and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain reliable, scalable, and highly available systems on GCP.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), and monitoring solutions.
• Proactively monitor and manage system performance, uptime, and capacity using observability tools.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and application-level issues in real-time.
• Implement and maintain disaster recovery, failover mechanisms, and backup strategies.
• Automate repetitive tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce toil.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident management, and root cause analysis (RCA).
• Ensure compliance with security standards, privacy regulations, and governance policies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support DevOps and SRE best practices.
• Drive improvements in SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets through data-driven insights.

Required Qualifications

• 4–6 years of relevant experience as an SRE, DevOps Engineer, or Cloud Infrastructure Engineer.
• Cloud Experience (GCP/AWS): Virtual Machines, Pub/Sub, Networking (Cloud NAT, VPC, Subnets, Load Balancer, Firewalls), Kubernetes (GKE), Buckets, Databases: Postgres, Cloud SQL, BigQuery
• Incident Management: SLA, SLO, SLI; Error Budgeting (MTTR, MTTD)
• Observability: Dynatrace, Prometheus & Grafana, Dashboarding
• Automation: Shell Scripting, Terraform
• Good to have: CI/CD (Jenkins, ArgoCD), Cloud Security & Compliance, Vulnerability Management, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• GCP certifications (e.g., Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, Cloud Architect).
• Exposure to multi-cloud environments or hybrid cloud infrastructure.
• Familiarity with Agile and ITIL frameworks.
• Experience working in regulated environments with compliance standards (e.g., ISO, SOC2).

Employee Type Permanent UPS is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.