GCP Cloud Engineer Consultant

Job Title

• Mandatory Skills
• • 3 to 7 years of hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Role Summary
• We are looking for a GCP Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and operate scalable, reliable, and intelligent cloud platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The role focuses on Cloud Operations, Observability, Automation
• Key Responsibilities Cloud Engineering & Operations

• Design, build, and manage highly available and resilient GCP infrastructure
• Operate and optimize production workloads on GCP (GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions)
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
• Ensure security, reliability, scalability, and cost optimization across environments

DevOps & Automation

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Cloud Build, GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Automate deployments and operational workflows
• Support GitOps / DevOps best practices
• Enable self‑healing and auto‑remediation mechanisms

Containers & Platform Engineering

• Manage and optimize Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
• Support containerized and microservices‑based architectures
• Implement scaling, resilience, and workload optimization strategies

Reliability, Security & Governance

• Apply SRE principles (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets)
• Implement IAM, VPC networking, firewall rules, and security best practices
• Support compliance, audit, and governance requirements
• Perform capacity planning and cost optimization (FinOps awareness)

Collaboration & Delivery

• Work closely with application, data, and platform teams
• Participate in design reviews, incident postmortems, and operational readiness reviews
• Contribute to reusable accelerators, templates, and best practices

Required Skills & Qualifications Core GCP Skills

• Strong hands‑on experience with:
• GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions
• Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Cloud Storage
• VPC, IAM, Load Balancing
• Solid Linux and networking fundamentals

Monitoring

• Experience with cloud observability
• Experience implementing monitoring dashboards and alerts

DevOps & Automation

• Terraform for IaC
• Docker & Kubernetes
• CI/CD tools (Cloud Build, GitHub Actions or equivalent)
• Scripting (Python, Bash)

Nice to Have

• Multi‑cloud exposure (AWS / Azure)
• ServiceNow or ITSM integrations
• FinOps / cost optimization experience
• Exposure to ML‑assisted operations or SRE tooling

Certifications (Preferred)

• Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer
• Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer
• Google Cloud Professional SRE / Architect (plus)

What Success Looks Like

• Stable, secure, and scalable GCP platforms
• High automation, minimal manual operations
• Strong collaboration across engineering teams

• Primary Roles and Responsibilities
• — Design, engineering, integration, and enhancements of Agile and DevOps enablement tools and applications by utilizing DevOps principles
• — Follow SDLC process and practices (Functional Specifications and Testing, Design Specifications, Code Reviews, Unit Testing, Monitoring)
• — Implement, manage and fine-tune monitoring and alerting systems to ensure robust system performance and swift incident response
• — Utilize Python and Groovy for scripting and automation tasks related to tools administration and integrations
• — Work closely with security teams to ensure tool compliance with organizational security policies
• — Solid understanding of source control systems(Git, Subversion)
• — Administer Bitbucket, Jenkins and GitHub to automate build and deployment processes
• — Manage and configure jFrog, Artifactory and NexusIQ for effective package repository maintenance
• — Administer SonarQube for continuous code quality assessments
• — Configuring, building, and deploying applications into on-premise/cloud(DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions)
• — Administer, manage and configure Jira and Confluence to foster team collaboration and productivity
• Preferred Skills
• — Must Have: GCP Platform, Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, GKE), Helm, Cloud Monitoring, GCP Networking, IaC (Terraform),
• — Nice-to Have: AKS, Azure DevOps, AWS, Azure services, Scripting, AWS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 3+ years of experience in DevOps role
• Excellent problem-solving skills

Location

Bangalore / India (Hybrid/Onsite as applicable)