DevOps Engineer 100% Remote (GCP Kubernetes Automation)
We are seeking a skilled and motivated DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team. As a DevOps Engineer at Eltropy you will play a central role in building securing and automating the infrastructure that supports our modern high-scale communication and payment platform. This role requires expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Kubernetes and infrastructure automation with a strong focus on security networking and operational excellence.
Job Responsibilities:
- Design and manage cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with a focus on security scalability and cost-efficiency.
- Architect and maintain Kubernetes clusters enabling robust production-grade container orchestration.
- Develop and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines to support reliable software delivery across environments.
- Implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform or equivalent tools for reproducible and auditable deployments.
- Configure and managePostgreSQL databases ensuring high availability performance tuning and backup automation.
- Define and enforce networking configurations (VPC subnets firewall rules routing ingress/egress control DNS).
- Apply and monitor security best practices across infrastructure including IAM policies secrets management TLS/SSL and threat prevention.
- Monitor systems using tools like Prometheus Grafana and Stackdriver; build alerts and dashboards to ensure observability and uptime.
Participate in incident response root cause analysis and postmortems. - Continuously evaluate optimize and improve operational processes deployment speed and infrastructure resilience.
What You Offer:
- 4 years of hands-on experience in DevOps SRE or Cloud Infrastructure Engineering.
- Strong experience with GCP services (e.g. GKE IAM Cloud Run Cloud SQL Cloud Functions Pub/Sub).
- Proven expertise in deploying and managing Kubernetes environments in production.
- Proficiency in automating deployments infrastructure configuration and container lifecycle management.
Deep understanding of networking fundamentals including DNS load balancing NAT VPNs TLS/SSL and routing policies. - Demonstrated experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions ArgoCD Jenkins or similar.
- Solid knowledge of PostgreSQL and experience managing databases at scale.
- Familiarity with monitoring logging and alerting systems.
- Practical knowledge of cloud security principles vulnerability management IAM policies and secrets handling.
- Ability to work collaboratively communicate effectively and take ownership of mission-critical infrastructure.
Bonus Skills: (Good to have skills)
- Experience with Cloudflare (DNS CDN WAF Zero Trust rate limiting page rules).
- Proficiency with Terraform Helm or Ansible.
- Familiarity with SRE practices runbooks SLAs/SLOs and disaster recovery planning.
- Awareness of cost optimization techniques and multi-region HA architectures.
- Knowledge of compliance and audit-readiness for fintech or regulated industries.
Perks and Benefits (What youll love about us)
- Competitive salary with bi-annual performance bonuses and stock options.
- Comprehensive health insurance for employees and dependents.
- Flexible working hours and a remote-first environment.
- 200000 annual allowance for learning and professional development.
- Generous paid time off policy.
- Stipend for home office setup.
- Annual team offsite trips and in-person meetups.
Required Experience:
Manager