Sr Devops GCP Engineer

Position : Sr Devops GCP Engineer
Experience: 5-7 years
Location: Remote
Roles & Responsibilities

• Own the reliability, availability, and performance microservices and production workloads
• Design and improve resilient infrastructure on GCP, with strong emphasis on Cloud Run, Kubernetes, and containerized services
• Build and maintain observability across logs, metrics, tracing, alerting, and service health so issues are detected early and resolved quickly
• Improve deployment safety through stronger CI/CD pipelines, release controls, rollback strategies, and environment consistency
• Lead incident response and production readiness practices, including runbooks, postmortems, on-call hygiene, capacity planning, and resilience testing
• Reduce operational toil by automating repetitive work and improving tooling for engineers supporting distributed services
• Partner with development teams to improve the operability, scalability, and fault tolerance of microservices early in the design lifecycle
• Strengthen cloud security and infrastructure hygiene across IAM, secrets management, workload hardening, and production safeguards
• Improve service performance, resource efficiency, and cloud cost management without compromising reliability
• Support architecture and reliability reviews for critical services and high-traffic business events

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or closely related DevOps roles with meaningful production ownership
• Strong experience running production systems on Google Cloud Platform
• Hands-on experience with Cloud Run, Kubernetes, and container-based microservices in production
• Strong experience with infrastructure as code, particularly Terraform and Terragrunt
• Strong understanding of observability using tools such as OpenTelemetry, Cloud Monitoring, New Relic, or equivalent systems
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservice failure modes, reliability engineering, and production debugging
• Experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines and release workflows in modern engineering environments, including GitHub Actions
• Ability to write code and automation in one or more languages such as Python or Java
• Good judgment during incidents and a practical mindset around reliability, recovery, and risk tradeoffs
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering teams
• Experience working with AI tooling and agentic workflows in engineering or operational environments
• Experience in retail, e-commerce, or other customer-facing environments is a plus