Cloud Ops - Senior Systems Engineer

As a Cloud Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for deploying, managing, and optimizing our cloud-based infrastructure, focusing on technologies such as Terraform, Kubernetes, GitOps/ArgoCD, CI/CD, GitLab, Ansible, and more. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless deployment and delivery of applications while maintaining the highest standards of reliability, security,

and scalability.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform to automate provisioning and scaling of resources.
• Work with Kubernetes/CloudRun or any GCP compute engines to deploy, configure, and maintain containerized applications and microservices.
• Implement and maintain GitOps practices using ArgoCD for declarative, automated application deployment and management.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure the integration of GitLab and other version control tools into the CI/CD workflow.
• Monitor and optimize system performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure high availability and scalability of cloud services.
• Collaborate with the security team to implement security best practices and ensure compliance with industry standards.
• Participate, troubleshoot and fix on any outages in on-call rotation to provide 24/7 support for critical infrastructure incidents.
• Stay up-to-date with industry best practices and emerging technologies to continuously improve cloud operations.

Requirements

• Proven experience in cloud infrastructure management, preferably with GCP. Strong expertise in Terraform for infrastructure as code (IaC) and automation.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools, with a focus on GitLab CI/CD,Familiarity with GitOps practices and ArgoCD.
• Understanding of Linux systems and networking.
• Knowledge of security best practices and compliance standards.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment

Education and Experience

• Bachelors degree in information technology, MIS, Computer Science or related field required
• Typically requires eight to fifteen years experience within the skills outlined above
• Written and deployed mission critical workloads to the public cloud (preferably Google Cloud)
• Experience with modern container orchestration systems: Kubernetes
• Experience in setting/selecting and documenting technology standards for a development organization
• Has lead engineering teams or direct work effort of technical resources.