DevOps Engineer (GCP)
Location: Alpharetta, GA
Duration: Fulltime
Job Description:
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills:
• Deploying, automating, maintaining and managing GCP (Google Cloud Platform) to ensure the availability, performance, scalability and security of production systems.
• 10+ years’ experience with using a broad range of GCP technologies to develop and maintain a GCP based cloud solution, with an emphasis on DevOps best practices.
• Solid experience as a DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime GCP environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools.
• Monitoring Tools: Experience with system monitoring tools on GCP
• Experience with GCP Core Services: Compute Engine, GKE, VPC, Cloud IAM, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL
• Experience with Infra, networking, Terraform, CICD Pipelines and Deployment on GCP.
• Preferred Certifications: Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer / Architect, CKA (Kubernetes Administrator).
• Process: Familiarity with ITIL, Change Advisory Board (CAB) workflows, and incident management.
• Ability to analyze and resolve complex infrastructure resource and application deployment issues.
• Build, release and configuration management of production systems.
• System troubleshooting and problem solving across platform and application domains.
• Agile Methodologies: Experience with Agile software development
Roles & Responsibilities:
Key Expectations:
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with clients, sponsors, and stakeholders to understand challenges and align solutions with business goals.
• Requirement Gathering: Attend discussions with the customer to translate business requirements into functional specifications and user stories.
• Google Cloud Platform Expertise: Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Google Cloud capabilities, guiding customers towards the most optimal solution.
• Implementation Support: Work with technical teams, provide input on testing, and support UAT and deployment.
• Documentation: Create process documentation, user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional design documents.
• Generic Managerial Skills:
• Serve as a liaison to coordinate with cross-functional teams and provide regular updates to technology and business stakeholders
• Identify, mitigate and resolve technical issues and project risks
• Ensure project meets specifications and quality standards
• Proficient in Agile methodology and tools - Jira, Confluence etc.
• Critical analytical and problem-solving skills