Lead DevOps

We are looking for a seasoned Lead DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer to own and evolve our cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will work at the intersection of software engineering and operations — building highly reliable, scalable, and observable systems that power our products. As a lead, you will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and champion a culture of reliability and continuous improvement across the engineering organisation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain GCP-based infrastructure using IaC tools such as Terraform and Deployment Manager.
• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines (Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or equivalent).
• Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; lead incident response and post-mortems.
• Manage Kubernetes (GKE) clusters — autoscaling, upgrades, network policies, and workload security.
• Establish observability standards using tools such as Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.
• Drive capacity planning, cost optimisation, and cloud spend governance across GCP projects.
• Champion security best practices: IAM least-privilege, secret management (Secret Manager / Vault), VPC design.
• Collaborate closely with platform, backend, and data engineering teams to deliver reliable deployments.
• Mentor junior and mid-level DevOps/SRE engineers; conduct code and design reviews.
• Evaluate and introduce new tooling to improve developer experience and system reliability.

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles.
• Hands-on expertise with Google Cloud Platform — Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL,Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, VPC, and IAM.
• Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code — Terraform (preferred) or Pulumi.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes/GKE: Helm, Kustomize, namespaces, RBAC, network policies.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language — Python, Go, or Bash.
• Proven track record designing and operating large-scale CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of Linux internals, networking (DNS, TCP/IP, TLS), and distributed systems.
• Experience defining SLOs and running incident management (on-call, RCA, post-mortems).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Google Cloud Professional certifications (Cloud DevOps Engineer, Cloud Architect, or equivalent).
• Familiarity with GitOps workflows using ArgoCD or Flux.
• Knowledge of data infrastructure on GCP — BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc.
• Prior experience in a lead or staff-level role with mentorship responsibilities.
• Exposure to FinOps practices and GCP cost management tools.

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