Senior DevOps Engineer

About the Role:

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer (5+ years experience) with strong expertise in GCP and working knowledge of AWS and/or GCP to lead end-to-end cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices. 

This role focuses on designing and operating secure, scalable, and production-grade cloud platforms, with emphasis on GCP-native services, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, and cloud governance. You will work closely with engineering teams and clients to deliver highly available, cost-optimized, and compliant systems.

Experience: 5+ Years
Location: Ahmedabad
Employment Type: Full-time

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and manage scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure across GCP(preferred), AWS/GCP cloud.
• Own end to end DevOps responsibilities of the assigned project including architecture, implementation, and operations.
• Design and implement GCP project structure, folder hierarchy, and organization policies for environment isolation and governance.
• Design and manage infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and GCP-native tools where applicable.
• Design, build, Manage and support containerized and microservices based workloads using GKE and Cloud Run.
• Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ensuring secure and reliable software delivery.
• Manage multiple environments (Dev, QA, UAT, Prod) including environment promotion, release governance, and deployment strategies (blue-green, canary).
• Implement monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting solutions to ensure system reliability and observability.
• Ensure adherence to security, compliance, IAM and operational best practices.
• Design and manage highly available database deployments and ensure secure access management.

Required Skills: 

• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, and GCP.
• Solid programming experience in Python or Go.
• Proficiency with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar.
• Deep understanding of networking, security, and system administration.
• A passion for developer productivity and building internal tools that empower engineering teams.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• A positive and proactive approach to work and team dynamics.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Write custom automation scripts and tools using Bash, Python, or Go lang for automation and improve operational efficiency.
• Collaborate closely with developers, architects, PMs, and clients to deliver optimal technical solutions.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams and other relevant documentations.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps roles.
• Strong production experience with GCP(preferred), exposure to AWS or Azure is a plus and willingness to learn and work across other cloud environments as needed.
• Deep hands-on experience in designing and managing complex Terraform based infrastructure provisioning. Experience of configuration management tools such as Ansible is a plus.
• Strong understanding, design and management of secure networking architecture including VPCs, subnets, firewall rules, private connectivity, Cloud Load Balancing, and Cloud CDN.
• Strong experience with container orchestration platforms such as GKE (must-have) and serverless containers like Cloud Run. Exposure to EKS, AKS, ECS is a plus.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture including advanced concepts such as ingress controllers, API gateways, Service mesh, autoscaling, cluster upgrades, networking and troubleshooting.
• Experience designing and optimizing autoscaling strategies across cloud infrastructure including Linux VMs and container orchestration platforms to ensure high availability, performance efficiency and cost optimization.
• Solid expertise in Docker, image optimization, security hardening, and container best practices.
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build, GitHub Actions or similar tools with best practices to improve developer experience and integrating security tools.
• Understanding of release strategies including versioning, rollback strategies, and artifact management.
• Experience working with serverless and event-driven architectures using Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Eventarc, API Gateway.
• Strong understanding and hands on production experience of implementing observability solutions including logging, metrics, distributed tracing and alerting using cloud native or open source tools.
• Hands-on experience with IAM design, service accounts, workload identity, and secret management using Secret Manager.
• Design and manage cloud storage solutions using GCP services (Cloud Storage, Filestore, Persistent Disks) with a strong focus on secure access patterns, including private access, encryption, IAM/service account-based access control, lifecycle management, and data flow architecture across services and environments.
• Experience implementing GCP governance using organization policies, IAM roles, and resource hierarchy.
• Cloud cost optimization and infrastructure efficiency practices.
• Experience in administering Linux based Cloud virtual machines, including disk management, networking, backup configuration, performance optimization, access control, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Experience designing and managing highly available and secure database deployments using cloud services with knowledge of MySQL, PostgreSQL including access management, backup strategies, disaster recovery, replication, and security best practices.
• Strong troubleshooting and Hands on experience in incident management, conducting root cause analysis and implementing preventive measures to improve system reliability and avoid recurring issues.
• Good communication skills with experience interacting with clients for requirement discussions, updates, and technical clarifications.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with developers, QA, Architects, project managers, other stakeholders and teams.

Nice to Have

• Certifications in GCP, AWS, Azure, Terraform, or Kubernetes.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

What we offer:

• A culture that values flexibility, work-life balance, and employee well-being - including Work From Home Fridays
• Competitive compensation packages and comprehensive health benefits
• Work with a collaborative, global team of engineers who thrive on solving complex challenges
• Exposure to multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and modern DevOps tooling at scale
• Professional growth through continuous learning, mentorship, and access to new technologies
• Leadership that recognizes contributions and supports career advancement
• The chance to shape DevOps best practices and directly influence company-wide engineering culture
• A people-first environment where your ideas matter and innovation is encouraged