Description

Key Responsibilities

• GCP Infrastructure Management: Design, deploy, and manage core GCP infrastructure services, ensuring high availability, performance, and security.
• Networking and Security: Configure and maintain GCP networking components, including:
  • Virtual Private Clouds (VPC)
  • Cloud DNS
  • Firewall Rules
  • Cloud Load Balancing
  • Network peering and routing
• Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Security Controls: Implement and manage robust security policies, access controls, and GCP security controls to enforce the principle of least privilege and protect cloud resources.
• Monitoring and Observability: Implement and utilize Cloud Logging and other GCP monitoring and logging services (e.g., Cloud Monitoring) to proactively identify, analyze, and resolve operational issues.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Develop, maintain, and manage infrastructure deployment using Terraform to ensure consistency, repeatability, and version control across environments.
• CI/CD & Version Control: Utilize Git for source control management and integrate infrastructure changes through automated workflows using GitHub Actions.
• System Administration: Linux administration, scripting (Bash and Python), usage and maintenance of CLI tools and environment.
• Collaboration: Work closely with development and operations teams to integrate cloud services into the CI/CD pipeline and ensure seamless deployment.
• Documentation: Create clear and thorough documentation for cloud architecture, configuration, and operational procedures.

Required Qualifications

• Experience:  5 years of professional experience working hands-on with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• GCP Core Services: Demonstrated experience with GCP foundational services, including:
  • VPC and network configuration
  • Cloud DNS
  • IAM and authentication/authorization mechanisms and tools
  • Cloud Firewall and security best practices
  • Both network and application layer loadbalancers
• Experience with IAC tools like Terraform for provisioning and managing GCP resources.
• Practical experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines, preferably using GitHub Actions.
• Operating System: Strong administration skills in Linux environments.
• Problem-Solving: Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Preferred Skills (Nice to Have)

• Certification: GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Certificate is desirable, or another relevant professional GCP certification (e.g., Google Cloud Engineer).
• Scripting: Experience with scripting languages such as Bash and/or Python for automation and operational tasks.
• Containerization: Exposure to any container build tools like Docker, Podman, Buildah  or similar.  Exposure to Kubernetes either standalone or via cloud providers (GKE or EKS)

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree