GCP Cloud DevOps Engineer

Key Accountabilities

Responsibilities will include

• • Build and manage the Client GCP foundation platform to enable application deployments

• • Engineer solutions on GCP foundation platform using Infrastructure As Code methods (e.g. Terraform)

• • Integrate, configure, deploy and manage centrally provided common cloud services (e.g. IAM, networking, logging, Operating systems, Containers.)

• • Manage SDN in GCP

• • Consume centrally agreed base Client Hardened OS (Linux and Windows)

• • Ensure compliance with centrally defined Security

• • Ensure compliancy with Operational risk standards (E.g. Network, Firewall, OS, Logging, Monitoring, Availability, Resiliency)

• • Build and support continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD) and continuous testing activities

• • Engineering activities to implement patches provided centrally

• • Support non-functional testing

• • Update support and operational documentation as required

• • Fault find and support Applications teams

• • Ensure good Change management practice is implemented as specified by central standards.

• • Provide impact assessments where requested for changes proposed on Client GCP core platform

• • On a rotational on call basis provide out of business hours support as part of our 24 x 7 coverage

Qualifications and experience

• The ideal candidate for this role will have the below experience and qualifications:

• • Experience of building a range of Services in a Cloud Service provider (ideally GCP)

• • Expert understanding of DevOps principles and Infrastructure as a Code concepts and techniques

• • Strong understanding of CI/CD and available tools

• • Experience configuring SDN within a CSP (VPC’s, XPN etc.)

• • Good understanding of physical networks (SubNets, Natting, Routing)

• • Security and Compliance, e.g. IAM (ADFS, OAuth) and cloud compliance/auditing/monitoring tools

• • Customer/stakeholder focus. Ability to build strong relationships with Application teams, cross functional IT and global/local IT teams

• • Good leadership and teamwork skills - Works collaboratively in an agile environment with DevOps application ‘pods’ to provide GCP specific capability/skills required to deliver the service.

• • Operational effectiveness - delivers solutions that align to approved design patterns and security standards

• • Risk management effectiveness

• • Excellent skills in at least one of following: Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, Go, Groovy, Scala

• • Experienced in full automation and configuration management

• • A track record of constantly looking for ways to do things better and an excellent understanding of the mechanism necessary to successfully implement change

• • Set and achieved challenging short, medium and long term goals which exceeded the standards in their field

• • Excellent written and spoken communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences

• • Built effective networks across business areas, developing relationships based on mutual trust and encouraging others to do the same

• • A successful track record of delivering complex projects and/or programmes, utilising appropriate techniques and tools to ensure and measure success

• • A comprehensive understanding of risk management and proven experience of ensuring own/others' compliance with relevant regulatory processes

• Essential Skills

• • Demonstrable Cloud service provider experience (ideally GCP) - infrastructure build and configurations of a variety of services including Compute, Storage, SDN (VPC and XPN)

• • Demonstrable experience of Linux administration and scripting preferably Red Hat

• • Experience of working with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and continuous testing tools

• • Experience working within an Agile environment

• • Programming experience in one or more of the following languages: Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, Go, Groovy, Scala

• • Server administration (either Linux or Windows)

• • Automation scripting (using scripting languages such as Terraform, Ansible etc.)

• • Ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools

• Desirable Skills

• • GCP Certifications - ideally professional

• • Linux Certification

• • Windows Server Certification

• • Experience operating in highly regulated industry, e.g. Financial Services

• Division: eTeam Workforce Limited Reference: 22-01064