Cloud GCP SRE Engineer

Experienced engineer that is required to work on public cloud projects within GCP in a global financial organization. That is focused on improving operational stability and reliability while helping establish production best practices for a new CSP partner. This role requires the successful candidate to have:

• Prior SRE experience or the willingness to specialize in the field
• Experience in transforming IT Service Delivery to one of a Devops culture
• Strong infrastructure, development and Devops skills
• Proven track record of service ownership, accountability and building trusted relationships
• Experience in Change and Incident Management concepts

Primary responsibilities

• Work in a globally distributed team to provide innovative and robust public Cloud solutions
• Collaborate with vendors to develop and deploy Cloud services to meet customer expectations
• Collaborate with IT Security to ensure necessary controls to Cloud services are deployed and tested
• Design, optimize and document the operational aspects of the Cloud platform
• Develop Infra as Code to automate cloud deployments
• Develop automation workflows in CI/CD pipeline adhering to change management process
• Facilitate tabletop exercises for incident management processes, chaos engineering
• Evaluate and implement emerging Devops tools
• Complex troubleshooting of on-premise and cloud environment issues
• Build and integrate observability into cloud platforms and solutions
• Highlight and reduce toil with automation, architecture improvements, and process improvements

Required Skills

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Sound knowledge of server infrastructure and cloud computing
• Good knowledge of security (SAML, OAuth, OpenID, Kerberos, Policies, entitlements etc.)
• Experience with architecting and maintaining high availability production systems
• Strong development skills in Python
• Experience in software installation, configuration and patching
• Hands on experience in playbook and infrastructure automation (Ansible, Terraform)
• Implementing open source observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, or Open Telemetry)
• Experience with Agile and DevOps methodologies
• Developing monitoring architecture and implementing monitoring agents, dashboards, escalations and alerts
• Ability to communicate technical issues and ideas to colleagues and customers with claity
• Experience creating technical architecture documentation

Desired Skills

• Knowledge of security controls for the Public cloud (encryption of data in motion/rest and key management)
• Hands-on experience with GCP design and implementation
• Knowledge of Linux and Windows containers
• Bachelor degree in a related field