Cloud DevOps Engineer

Lighthouse Technology Services is partnering with our client to fill their Cloud DevOps Engineer position! This is a 6 month contract-to-hire opportunity and will be hybrid in Buffalo NY. This role will be a W2 employee of Lighthouse Technology Services.

What Youll Be Doing:

• Design build and manage GCP infrastructure environments to support critical business operations and application delivery
• Provision and configure core Google Cloud services including Compute Engine VMs (Linux and Windows) GKE clusters Dataproc clusters and Cloud SQL instances
• Automate infrastructure provisioning configuration management and deployment pipelines using Terraform Jenkins Ansible and Cloud Deployment Manager
• Monitor optimize and tune cloud platforms for performance cost efficiency and scalability using Google Cloud Operations Suite (Stackdriver) Prometheus and Grafana
• Implement and maintain security controls including IAM policies network security configurations and encryption standards across all cloud resources
• Collaborate with application development teams to accelerate delivery cycles and improve system reliability through DevOps best practices
• Lead troubleshooting efforts for production and non-production incidents conducting thorough root cause analysis and creating comprehensive documentation
• Design and implement backup strategies and disaster recovery solutions for mission-critical services and data
• Translate business requirements into technical design specifications that align with service level agreements and organizational standards

What Youll Need to Have:

• 5 years of experience in IT development or engineering roles with a focus on cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or related technical field
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing containerized applications on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) using Helm and Kubernetes orchestration
• Strong proficiency with Python and GCP services including Cloud Composer/Airflow Data Fusion BigQuery Cloud Storage Compute Engine and Dataflow
• Solid expertise with DevOps automation tools and workflows including Terraform Jenkins Ansible and GitHub
• Demonstrated experience with monitoring and logging solutions such as Google Cloud Operations Suite Prometheus and Grafana
• Strong understanding of cloud networking concepts including VPCs firewalls load balancers and DNS configuration
• Proficiency in Unix/Linux administration and shell scripting for automation tasks
• Strong Git version control skills including branching strategies and collaborative development workflows

Pay Range: $70-80/hr

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