GCP Cloud Engineer Consultant

Description Job Title GCP AIOps Cloud Engineer Location Bangalore / India (Hybrid/Onsite as applicable) Experience Mandatory Skills • 3 to 8 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 Responsibilities 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 Qualifications • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field • 3+ years of experience in DevOps role • Excellent problem-solving skills