GCP Cloud Engineer Consultant

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

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