DevOps Engineer (GCP)
Alpharetta, GA - Onsite
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:
Common Focus Areas:
- 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
