Cloud DevOps Engineer

Working model: Hybrid — 6 days per month from the Kraków office

As a Cloud DevOps Engineer, you will work within an Agile team of Engineers and Operations professionals, building and managing highly resilient, scalable and high-performing GCP infrastructure in an automated and efficient way.

You will work closely with Application DevOps teams and cross-functional IT teams. The role requires a proactive approach, a willingness to innovate and the ability to investigate and adopt new products and services offered by GCP to achieve maximum performance.

Key responsibilities

• Build and manage the GCP foundation platform to enable application deployments.
• Engineer solutions on the GCP foundation platform using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methods, such as Terraform.
• Integrate, configure, deploy and manage centrally provided cloud services, including IAM, networking, logging, operating systems and containers.
• Manage SDN in GCP.
• Consume centrally agreed Hardened OS environments, including Linux and Windows.
• Ensure compliance with centrally defined Security requirements.
• Ensure compliance with Operational Risk standards, including network, firewall, OS, logging, monitoring, availability and resiliency.
• Build and support Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and Continuous Testing activities.
• Implement centrally provided patches.
• Support non-functional testing.
• Maintain support and operational documentation as required.
• Troubleshoot issues and provide support to Application teams.
• Ensure effective Change Management practices in line with central standards.
• Provide impact assessments for proposed changes to the GCP core platform.
• Participate in a rotational on-call schedule, providing out-of-hours support as part of our 24/7 coverage.

Qualifications and experience

The ideal candidate will have:

• Experience building a range of services with a Cloud Service Provider, ideally GCP.
• Expert understanding of DevOps principles and Infrastructure as Code concepts and techniques.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD and available tools.
• Experience configuring SDN within a Cloud Service Provider, including VPCs and XPN.
• Good understanding of physical networking, including subnets, NAT and routing.
• Knowledge of Security and Compliance, including IAM, ADFS, OAuth and cloud compliance, auditing and monitoring tools.
• Strong customer and stakeholder focus, with the ability to build strong relationships with Application teams and cross-functional, global and local IT teams.
• Good leadership and teamwork skills, with the ability to work collaboratively in an Agile environment with Application DevOps pods and provide the GCP-specific capabilities required to deliver the service.
• Strong focus on operational effectiveness and delivering solutions aligned with approved design patterns and security standards.
• Experience with full automation and configuration management.
• A track record of continuously looking for ways to improve processes and a strong understanding of the mechanisms required to successfully implement change.
• Experience setting and achieving challenging short-, medium- and long-term goals that exceed standards in the field.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex information clearly and effectively to a wide range of audiences.
• The ability to build effective networks across business areas and develop relationships based on mutual trust.
• A successful track record of delivering complex projects and/or programmes using appropriate techniques and tools to ensure and measure success.
• A comprehensive understanding of risk management and proven experience ensuring compliance with relevant regulatory processes.

Essential skills

• Demonstrable Cloud Service Provider experience, ideally GCP, including infrastructure build and configuration of services such as Compute, Storage and SDN (VPC and XPN).
• Demonstrable experience in Linux administration and scripting, preferably Red Hat.
• Experience working with Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Testing tools.
• Experience working within an Agile environment.
• Server administration experience with either Linux or Windows.
• Experience with automation scripting using tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools.
• GCP Certifications, ideally Professional level.
• Windows Server Certification.
• Experience working in a highly regulated industry, e.g. Financial Services.