Senior GCP DevOps Engineer

Job Description

About You

You are a Senior DevOps Engineer with deep hands-on experience building secure, cloud-native platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and delivering infrastructure entirely through Terraform and GitLab CI/CD. You combine platform engineering, cloud security leadership, and multi-cloud connectivity across AWS, GCP, and legacy systems to turn infrastructure into a self-service product for development teams.

You thrive in environments where immutability, automation, and continuous improvement are highly valued. You are a hands-on technical leader who enjoys mentoring others and transferring knowledge, helping the team reach zero manual deployments and 100% of its infrastructure as code.

• Note: This position is offered under a 3-month assignment (with the possibility of extension) and follows a hybrid model, with 3 days per week on-site and 2 days remote, Monday through Friday.

You Bring to Applaudo the Following Competencies:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field is desired, or equivalent professional experience.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, platform engineering, and cloud environments.
• Advanced expertise designing complex, reusable Terraform modules and enforcing an immutable, everything-as-code infrastructure strategy.
• Advanced experience building multi-environment GitLab CI/CD pipelines, including deployment orchestration and pipeline security.
• Advanced knowledge of GCP cloud-native architecture as the primary platform.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and hybrid connectivity across multi-cloud environments and legacy systems.
• Advanced experience implementing Binary Authorization and network policies to secure cloud ecosystems.
• Advanced experience developing Kubernetes operators and controllers to automate complex operational tasks.
• Working knowledge of FinOps practices, including quotas and cost alerts for cloud billing control.
• Proven technical leadership, mentoring, and knowledge transfer skills.
• Strong teamwork and collaboration skills.
• Working knowledge of English is required; Spanish will be the primary language of communication within the project.
• HashiCorp Terraform Professional, GitLab Certified CI/CD, and Google Professional Cloud Architect certifications are desired.

You Will Be Accountable for the Following Responsibilities:

• Define Golden Paths that enable self-service deployments for development teams.
• Guarantee infrastructure immutability, ensuring no production changes happen outside of Terraform.
• Build and evolve CI/CD workflows that move the team toward zero manual deployments.
• Lead the security of the cloud ecosystem by integrating security controls into the delivery workflow.
• Implement Binary Authorization and network policies to protect the cloud ecosystem.
• Design secure multi-cloud and hybrid connectivity between AWS, GCP, and legacy systems.
• Apply proactive FinOps practices through quotas and cost alerts.
• Develop Kubernetes operators and controllers that automate complex tasks.
• Transfer knowledge to the team through pair programming sessions.

Qualifications

• Advanced experience with Terraform (complex reusable modules) and multi-environment GitLab CI/CD.
• Advanced experience with GCP cloud-native architecture, plus AWS and hybrid connectivity.
• Advanced experience with Binary Authorization, network policies, and Kubernetes operators and controllers.
• Working knowledge of FinOps practices.

Additional Information

About Us

We Are Engineered Different.

At Applaudo, talented people design, build, and scale meaningful, AI-powered solutions that create real business impact. As an AI-native organization, we collaborate across design, development, cloud, data, and artificial intelligence to turn ideas into scalable products that transform how companies operate, make decisions, and grow.

We are building a high-performance culture grounded in five values: Empowering Excellence, Collaborative Teamwork, Unsolicited Respect, Consistent Transparency, and Efficient Communication. These define how we work, how we support one another, and how we hold ourselves accountable.

Applaudo is a place for people who want to learn fast, take ownership, and work alongside strong teams they are proud to belong to. Joining us means being part of an organization that is evolving intentionally, investing in modern ways of working, and leading AI-native transformation at scale.