As a Cloud Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for deploying, managing, and optimizing our cloud-based infrastructure, focusing on technologies such as Terraform, Kubernetes, GitOps/ArgoCD, CI/CD, GitLab, Ansible, and more. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless deployment and delivery of applications while maintaining the highest standards of reliability, security, and scalability.
Key Responsibilities
- Create cloud infrastructure using Terraform to automate provisioning and scaling of resources.
- Create Terraform modules for the new GCP resources
- Work with any GCP compute engines to deploy, configure, and maintain containerized applications and microservices.
- Create runbooks for the standard cloud operations and implementations
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes.
- Implement and maintain GitOps practices using ArgoCD for declarative, automated application deployment and management.
- Collaborate with development teams to ensure the integration of GitLab and other version control tools into the CI/CD workflow.
- Monitor and optimize system performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure high availability and scalability of cloud services.
- Participate, troubleshoot and fix on any outages in on-call rotation to provide 24/7 support for critical infrastructure incidents.
- Configure and setup the monitoring for infrastructure resources
Requirements
- Hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure management, preferably with GCP.
- Hands-on expertise in Terraform for infrastructure as code (IaC) and automation.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration.
- Proficiency in CI/CD tools, with a focus on GitLab CI/CD, Familiarity with GitOps practices and ArgoCD.
- Understanding of Linux systems and networking.
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment.
Education and Experience
- Bachelors degree in information technology, MIS, Computer Science or related field required
- Typically requires two to ten years experience within the skills outlined above
- Written and deployed mission critical workloads to the public cloud (preferably Google Cloud)
- Experience with modern container orchestration systems: Kubernetes
- Experience in setting/selecting and documenting technology standards for a development organization
