Cloud Operations Engineer

Experience : 6+ Years

Main Skills :

- GCP

- IAC (Infrastructure as Code)

- Terraform

- GKE

- CI/CD, Kubernetes

Job Description :

Generic Skills (Must Have) :

- Terraform HCL, modules, remote state, state locking, reusable templates, environment separation.

- Containerisation and Kubernetes basics: deployments, services, ingress, config maps, secrets, autoscaling, troubleshooting.

- Linux administration and basic scripting.

GCP Skills (Must Have) :

- GCP Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, IAM, VPC, Load Balancers, Cloud NAT, Cloud Router, Cloud DNS.

- CI/CD using Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.

- Monitoring and logging using Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent.

Nice to have (Trainable) :

- GKE Autopilot vs Standard decisioning.

- Anthos / GKE Enterprise exposure.

- Cloud Deploy, Artifact Registry.

- FinOps and cost optimisation.

- Policy as Code using OPA, Sentinel, or Terraform policy controls.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design, develop, and maintain Terraform codebases, including modules, remote state management, state locking, reusable templates, and environment segregation.

- Deploy and manage containerized workloads on GKE, handling deployments, services, ingress, config maps, secrets, autoscaling, and daytoday troubleshooting.

- Perform Linux system administration tasks and create basic automation scripts to support cloud operations.

- Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI to deliver code changes reliably.

- Configure and monitor GCP services such as Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, IAM, VPC, Load Balancers, Cloud NAT, Cloud Router, and Cloud DNS.

- Set up observability stacks with Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Prometheus, and Grafana, and respond to alerts and incidents.

- Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to optimize cloud costs and enforce security and compliance policies.