DevOps Lead Engineer (GCP)

DevOps Lead Engineer (GCP)
Location -Thiruvananthapuram
Job Type - Permanant
Budget - 20 LPA - 24 LPA
Experience: 10 years


Key Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture (GCP Multi-Cloud)


Design and operate cloud infrastructure spanning multiple regions and environments.
Define networking identity security and infrastructure standards.
Drive multi-cloud integration patterns (GCP primary AWS/Azure optional).
Infrastructure-as-Code & Automation
Own Terraform architecture module standards versioning validation and
automation.

Establish GitOps workflows for infrastructure and application deployments.
Lead migration from legacy or manual setups to fully automated IaC-based systems.

Kubernetes Platform Engineering


Architect and operate production-grade Kubernetes clusters at scale.
Implement service mesh observability deployment strategies and workload security.
Define best practices for manifests Helm/Kustomize CI-integrated testing and
rollouts.
CI/CD & Deployment Automation

Design enterprise CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions Azure DevOps etc.).
Implement secure build pipelines artifact management and progressive delivery.
Security Compliance & Governance
Implement cloud security controls aligned with PCI/SOX and enterprise compliance.
Manage secrets encryption IAM policies and audit posture.
Collaborate with security teams on vulnerability management and incident
prevention.


Observability & Reliability

Build unified logging metrics tracing SLO/SLI frameworks and dashboards.
Lead incident response production readiness assessments and capacity planning.
Advocate for reliability engineering chaos testing and best practices.
Leadership & Collaboration
Mentor DevOps and platform engineers.
Lead technical reviews RFCs and architecture discussions.
Enable engineering teams with self-service tooling and platform capabilities.


Required Skills & Qualifications
Technical


10 years in DevOps SRE and cloud platform roles.
Strong expertise with GCP (VPC IAM GKE Cloud SQL security products).
Deep Kubernetes experience (cluster design service mesh policies deployment
patterns).
Expert-level Terraform (modules state multi-cloud providers).
Strong CI/CD experience and GitOps methodologies.
Strong grounding in cloud security principles IAM secrets encryption.
Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus Datadog OpenTelemetry etc.).

Solid scripting: Bash Python Go (nice to have).

Leadership


Ability to lead cloud modernization and DevOps transformation initiatives.
Strong communication and cross-team collaboration skills.
Experience working with architects security and product teams.
Bonus
Fintech or regulated domain experience.
AWS or Azure production experience.
Platform engineering background building internal developer platforms.

Required Skills:

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