Sr. DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer GCP / Kubernetes

Role Summary

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Kubernetes (GKE) and infrastructure automation using Terraform. The role involves maintaining and evolving CI/CD pipelines and supporting deployment of Spring Boot microservices to Kubernetes environments.

You will work closely with development teams to ensure reliable secure and scalable deployments across cloud environments with a strong focus on networking security and production readiness.

Key Responsibilities

• Design maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines (Git-based workflows) for deploying Spring Boot services to GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine)
• Manage and automate infrastructure using Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
• Deploy and operate workloads in GKE and Cloud Run environments
• Work with Kubernetes resources including:
  • Deployments Stateful Sets Services
  • Ingress controllers and routing
  • ConfigMaps and Secrets
• Troubleshoot and optimize pod lifecycle scaling and performance issues
• Implement and manage TLS certificates SSL termination and secure communication between services
• Configure and maintain networking in GCP including:
  • VPC design and subnetting
  • Firewall rules and routing
  • Private service access
  • Load balancing and ingress/egress traffic control
• Support secure connectivity to external systems such as:
  • REST APIs
  • SFTP servers (secure file transfer integrations)
• Ensure observability using logging monitoring and alerting tools (e.g. Cloud Logging Prometheus Grafana)
• Collaborate with backend teams to support production deployments of Spring Boot applications
• Participate in incident response troubleshooting and root cause analysis

Required Skills & Experience

Cloud & Kubernetes

• Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Hands-on experience with GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine)
• Experience with Cloud Run (deployment and scaling models)
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes concepts:
  • Pods Deployments ReplicaSets
  • Services Ingress/Egress
  • Namespaces and resource isolation

Infrastructure as Code

• Strong experience with Terraform
• Ability to design reusable and maintainable infrastructure modules

CI/CD & DevOps

• Experience modifying and maintaining Git-based CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions GitLab CI or similar)
• Experience deploying Java / Spring Boot microservices
• Understanding of artifact versioning and deployment strategies (rolling blue/green canary)

Networking & Security (Critical)

• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals
• Experience with:
  • VPC design and routing
  • Ingress controllers and load balancers
  • Firewall rules and network policies
• Experience with TLS/SSL certificates certificate rotation and secure communication
• Understanding of service-to-service communication and external integrations (REST SFTP)

Qualifications :

Education

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time