Experience
- professional DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure engineering experience
- hands-on experience with Terraform in production environments (preferably managing 50+ resources)
- production experience on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or equivalent (AWS/Azure) with deep expertise in 2+ major GCP services
- managing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
- Proven experience building and maintaining disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) strategies
- Experience operating customer-facing, high-availability services with 99%+ uptime targets
- Track record of incident response and on-call operations in production environments
Technical Skills - GCP & Cloud Platforms
Core GCP Services
- Compute: Deep expertise with Cloud Run (containerized workloads), Cloud Functions (serverless), Compute Engine
- Databases: Firestore (NoSQL), BigQuery (data warehouse), Cloud SQL (relational databases)
- Messaging & Streaming: Pub/Sub, Dataflow
- Storage: Cloud Storage (GCS), Firestore Backup & Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR)
- Networking: VPC, Cloud Load Balancer, Cloud Armor, VPN, Cloud Interconnect
- Security: Cloud IAM, Secret Manager, Cloud KMS, Security Command Center
- Monitoring & Observability: Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Cloud Trace, Profiler
- Deployment & Orchestration: Cloud Deploy, GKE (optional but valuable)
Skills
Experience with Cloudflare (Workers, edge computing, WAF/DDoS)
- Kubernetes/GKE experience (container orchestration, Helm, operators)
- Experience with data pipelines (Dataflow, Cloud Composer/Airflow)
- Cost optimization expertise (RI analysis, committed use discounts, workload-based sizing)
- Experience with multi-region or multi-cloud deployments
- Background in platform engineering or building internal developer platforms (IDP)
- Exposure to governance and compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR)
- Experience with chaos engineering and resilience testing (Gremlin, Chaos Toolkit)
- Knowledge of API Gateway, Apigee or similar
- Experience with service mesh (Istio, Consul) - optional
- Terraform Cloud or Terraform Enterprise administration
- Linux/Unix system administration background