About the Role :

We are looking for an experienced Google Cloud Administrator with strong hands-on expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and Kubernetes to support and manage cloud infrastructure for a banking environment. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in cloud administration, Kubernetes platform management, security, monitoring, troubleshooting, and production support. Prior experience working in the Banking / Financial Services domain is mandatory.

Key Responsibilities :

- Administer and manage Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure across development, testing, and production environments.

- Manage and support Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters, including cluster configuration, upgrades, scaling, networking, and troubleshooting.

- Perform day-to-day Kubernetes administration, including deployments, namespaces, services, ingress, RBAC, secrets, ConfigMaps, and resource management.

- Monitor and troubleshoot GCP and GKE environments to ensure high availability, reliability, and performance.

- Manage GCP networking components including VPC, subnets, firewall rules, load balancers, DNS, and connectivity.

- Implement and maintain cloud security, IAM policies, service accounts, roles, and access controls in line with banking security standards.

- Support containerized applications and troubleshoot infrastructure, Kubernetes, and deployment-related issues.

- Work with DevOps and application teams to support CI/CD pipelines and cloud deployments.

- Perform incident management, root-cause analysis, and preventive actions for production issues.

- Support GCP cost optimization, capacity planning, backup/recovery, and infrastructure lifecycle management.

- Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and architecture/infrastructure diagrams.

- Ensure cloud infrastructure complies with organizational security, governance, audit, and regulatory requirements applicable to the banking industry.

Mandatory Skills :

- Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) administration.

- Strong experience with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

- Strong hands-on Kubernetes administration and troubleshooting experience.

- Experience with Docker/containerized environments.

- Good understanding of GCP networking, IAM, security, monitoring, and logging.

- Experience managing production cloud infrastructure. Strong troubleshooting and incident-management skills.

Domain Requirement :

- Banking / Financial Services domain experience is mandatory.

Nice to Have :

- Experience with Apigee / Apigee X administration and management.

- Experience with API management and API gateway platforms.

- Knowledge of Terraform / Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

- Experience with Google Cloud Build / CI-CD tools.

- Knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Monitoring, and Cloud Logging.

- Familiarity with banking security, compliance, and regulatory requirements.

- Relevant GCP / Kubernetes certifications.