GCP Cloud Engineer Consultant

Job Title

GCP AIOps Cloud Engineer

Location

Bangalore / India (Hybrid/Onsite as applicable)

Experience

Mandatory Skills

• 3 to 8 years of hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Role Summary

We are looking for a GCP Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and operate scalable, reliable, and intelligent cloud platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) .

The role focuses on Cloud Operations, Observability, Automation

Key Responsibilities Cloud Engineering & Operations

Design, build, and manage highly available and resilient GCP infrastructure

Operate and optimize production workloads on GCP (GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions)

Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform

Ensure security, reliability, scalability, and cost optimization across environments

DevOps & Automation

Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Cloud Build, GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes)

Automate deployments and operational workflows

Support GitOps / DevOps best practices

Enable self‑healing and auto‑remediation mechanisms

Containers & Platform Engineering

Manage and optimize Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Support containerized and microservices‑based architectures

Implement scaling, resilience, and workload optimization strategies

Reliability, Security & Governance

Apply SRE principles (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets)

Implement IAM, VPC networking, firewall rules, and security best practices

Support compliance, audit, and governance requirements

Perform capacity planning and cost optimization (FinOps awareness)

Collaboration & Delivery

Work closely with application, data, and platform teams

Participate in design reviews, incident postmortems, and operational readiness reviews

Contribute to reusable accelerators, templates, and best practices

Required Skills & Qualifications Core GCP Skills

Strong hands‑on experience with: GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions

Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Cloud Storage

VPC, IAM, Load Balancing

Solid Linux and networking fundamentals

Monitoring

Experience with cloud observability

Experience implementing monitoring dashboards and alerts

DevOps & Automation

Terraform for IaC

Docker & Kubernetes

CI/CD tools (Cloud Build, GitHub Actions or equivalent)

Scripting (Python, Bash)

Nice to Have

Multi‑cloud exposure (AWS / Azure)

ServiceNow or ITSM integrations

FinOps / cost optimization experience

Exposure to ML‑assisted operations or SRE tooling

Certifications (Preferred)

Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer

Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer

Google Cloud Professional SRE / Architect (plus)

What Success Looks Like

Stable, secure, and scalable GCP platforms

High automation, minimal manual operations

Strong collaboration across engineering teams

Primary Roles and Responsibilities

— Design, engineering, integration, and enhancements of Agile and DevOps enablement tools and applications by utilizing DevOps principles

— Follow SDLC process and practices (Functional Specifications and Testing, Design Specifications, Code Reviews, Unit Testing, Monitoring)

— Implement, manage and fine-tune monitoring and alerting systems to ensure robust system performance and swift incident response

— Utilize Python and Groovy for scripting and automation tasks related to tools administration and integrations

— Work closely with security teams to ensure tool compliance with organizational security policies

— Solid understanding of source control systems(Git, Subversion)

— Administer Bitbucket, Jenkins and GitHub to automate build and deployment processes

— Manage and configure jFrog, Artifactory and NexusIQ for effective package repository maintenance

— Administer SonarQube for continuous code quality assessments

— Configuring, building, and deploying applications into on-premise/cloud(DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions)

— Administer, manage and configure Jira and Confluence to foster team collaboration and productivity

Preferred Skills

— Must Have: GCP Platform, Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, GKE), Helm, Cloud Monitoring, GCP Networking, IaC (Terraform),

— Nice-to Have: AKS, Azure DevOps, AWS, Azure services, Scripting, AWS

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

3+ years of experience in DevOps role

Excellent problem-solving skills