Job : Devops Engineer
Location : Buffalo, NY 1-2 days from the office
Duration : 6 months+
|Design, build, and run GCP infrastructure.
• Provision and manage core GCP services, including: VMs (Linux and Windows) on Compute Engine, GKE clusters, Dataproc clusters, Cloud SQL instances
• Automate provisioning, config, and deployments using Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, or Cloud Deployment Manager.
• Monitor and tune platforms for performance, cost, and scale using Google Cloud Operations Suite (Stackdriver), Prometheus, and/or Grafana.
• Keep things secure: IAM, network controls, and encryption.
• Partner with app teams to speed up delivery and improve reliability.
• Troubleshoot prod/non-prod issues, then complete RCA and documentation.
• Implement backup and disaster recovery for critical services and data.
• Translate requirements into design specs aligned to business agreements.
• Work well in a team and pick things up quickly.
What you’ll bring
• 5+ years in IT development/engineering.
• Bachelor’s or master’s in computer science/engineering (or similar).
• GCP certs (Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer / Cloud Architect) are a bonus.
• Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid setups.
• Must-have: hands-on GKE, Helm, and Kubernetes app deployment experience.
• Hands-on with Python and GCP services: Composer/Airflow, Data Fusion, Big Query, Cloud Storage, GCE, Dataflow.
• Solid DevOps tooling knowledge: Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, GitHub, etc.
• Comfortable on Unix/Linux and with shell scripting.
• Monitoring/logging experience with Cloud Operations, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Good grasp of networking: VPCs, firewalls, load balancers, DNS.
• Strong Git skills, including branching strategies.
