Senior Gcp Devops

Senior Gcp Devops
Viseu
Viseu, Viseu District, Portugal

Senior GCP Dev
Ops

• English: must
• Spanish: good to have

At Skala, we partner with a leading company in the educational technology (Ed
Tech) sector, committed to transforming digital learning. Our client is focused on scaling its infrastructure to support sustainable growth, offering a unique opportunity for a Senior GCP Dev
Ops to lead the optimization of their cloud platform.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior GCP Dev
Ops with proven,
- depth experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to join the technology team. This role is essential for ensuring the stability, security, scalability, and automation of the cloud infrastructure. You will be the architect of infrastructure as code, the guardian of cloud security, and a key player in implementing
-
-
- art CI/CD pipelines. Your impact will directly enhance operational efficiency and continuous value delivery to users.

Main Responsibilities

Infrastructure and Networking:

• Design, implement, and manage the full infrastructure on GCP.
• Configure and maintain virtual networks (VPCs), subnets, and routing policies.
• Manage firewall rules and advanced network security policies.
• Implement and manage Load Balancers to ensure high availability.
• Configure and manage Cloud DNS for internal and external domains.

Security and Access:

• Lead the management of Roles, Permissions, and Access Policies (RAC, IAM).
• Implement robust authentication and authorization flows.
• Configure Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) for secure access.
• Protect traffic using SSL/TLS and managed certificates.
• Perform audits and hardening on key GCP services (Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL).

Automation and CI/CD:

• Create and maintain Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Cloud Build or equivalent tools.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Ia
  C) with Terraform.
• Configure and optimize automated testing execution within pipelines.
• Implement advanced deployment strategies (e. G. , canary and automated rollback).

Storage and Databases:

• Manage Cloud Storage buckets for optimization and security.
• Manage and optimize Cloud SQL instances (My
  SQL/Postgre
  SQL).
• Configure backups, recovery, and database performance tuning.
• Implement secure access and data protection policies.

Observability and Monitoring:

• Set up alerts, dashboards, and performance metrics with Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging.
• Integrate external observability tools (e. G. , Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry).
• Conduct log analysis and event tracing for troubleshooting.
• Monitor infrastructure performance, security, and cost efficiency.

Technical Requirements

• Experience: Minimum of 5 years of proven experience as a Dev
  Ops Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE).
• Cloud Platform: Proven and solid experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong Knowledge of:
• Cloud Security
• Networking and Traffic Management
• Load Balancing
• Terraform (for Ia
  C)
• Cloud Build or equivalent CI/CD tools (e. G. , Git
  Hub/Git
  Lab CI)
• Methodology: Familiarity with agile methodologies and Dev
  Sec
  Ops best practices.

Key Skills and Competencies

• Structured and
  - thinking approach to infrastructure design.
• Proactivity in identifying security risks and performance bottlenecks.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative technology team environment.
• Strong focus on automation and process optimization.