DevOps Engineer

The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for a variety of duties, including but not limited to the following:

• Standardization, automation, and operationalization of cloud deployments in our hosting environment (GCP)
• Building, managing, and running infrastructure-as-code pipelines using Terraform or similar tools.
• Manage and optimize foundational platform components such as networking, security, and organizational policies, with a focus on enabling DevOps-driven delivery of robust data pipelines and enterprise services.
• Implement tools and design processes that help improve monitoring and system resiliency. Monitoring CI/CD pipelines for failures
• Design service level objectives and report on corresponding service-level health indicators
• Designing and implementing network security (VPC, Firewall, VPC-SC) changes in GCP
• Assisting project teams with integration of application pipelines
• Managing our source code and CI/CD platform - GitLab
• Managing GitLab operations including GitFlow change management workflows
• Research and understand industry trends and their applicability to support operational efficiencies for the enterprise
• Effectively communicate technical decision-making processes and solution designs to various audiences

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Diploma, undergraduate or graduate degree in Engineering, IT Management or related field
• 5+ years of experience as a SRE, Infrastructure Engineer, or systems engineer with computing, storage, network, and security in a production environment
• 3+ years of experience with GCP or equivalent cloud infrastructure
• 3+ years of DevOps or deployment orchestration experience
• 2+ years of infrastructure-as-code experience with tools like Terraform
• 1-2 years of experience with cloud-managed Kubernetes environments (GKE, AKS, EKS)
• 1-2 years of experience with GitLab and GitLab CI/CD components (eg. Runners)
• Knowledge of cloud networking including VPCs, VPC Firewalls, micro-segmentation patterns and private connectivity
• Experience with creating and testing Disaster Recovery and High Availability strategies
• Experience with Azure Active Directory or equivalent identity providers, and SSO integration
• Experience with Linux, shell scripting and system administration
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools such as GCP Cloud Ops, Azure Monitor (Log Analytics), DataDog, New Relic, Splunk etc.