Google Cloud Platform Operations Engineer

Workster is partnering with a leading global technology and professional services firm to recruit an experienced Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Operations Engineer for its international cloud engineering practice in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Join a diverse and collaborative cloud operations team responsible for the availability, reliability and operational excellence of large-scale GCP environments for enterprise clients. In this role you will operate, automate and optimise GCP infrastructure and platform services, support CI/CD and SRE practices, and collaborate with engineering, security and product teams to deliver resilient cloud solutions.

Your Role

• Operate and maintain production GCP environments, ensuring availability, performance and scalability for critical applications and services

• Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, Deployment Manager or similar, enabling repeatable and auditable deployments

• Build, maintain and optimise CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation using tools like Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitLab CI or equivalent

• Design and implement monitoring, alerting and observability solutions using Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Prometheus, Grafana and related tooling

• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents; perform root cause analysis and drive corrective and preventive actions to improve system reliability

• Manage networking, load balancing, VPN/Interconnect, VPCs, Cloud DNS and related GCP networking components

• Configure and operate compute, storage and database services (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, BigQuery) following best practices for security and cost optimisation

• Implement and maintain identity, access and security controls using Cloud IAM, Secrets Manager, KMS, and integrate with enterprise identity providers

• Automate operational tasks and runbooks with scripting (Python, Bash, Go) and orchestration frameworks to reduce manual toil

• Participate in on-call rotations and provide timely incident response and incident communications to stakeholders

• Collaborate with developers, platform engineers and security teams to support continuous improvement, capacity planning and cost management

• Produce and maintain high-quality operational documentation, runbooks, architecture diagrams and post-incident reports

• Contribute to cloud migration, modernisation and platform standardisation programmes, helping to define operational standards and best practices

Your Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Cloud Operations or Site Reliability Engineer, with hands-on operational experience in Google Cloud Platform

• Practical experience with GCP services including GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Cloud IAM and networking components

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred) and configuration management tools

• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, Go or similar) and experience automating operational tasks

• Experience building and maintaining observability and monitoring (Cloud Monitoring, Logging, Prometheus, Grafana) and managing alerts and SLIs/SLOs

• Familiarity with CI/CD practices and tools (Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Argo CD) and container orchestration (Kubernetes/GKE)

• Good understanding of cloud networking, security controls, identity management and encryption best practices

• Proven ability to troubleshoot production incidents, perform root cause analysis and implement long-term fixes

• Strong communication and collaboration skills with experience working in cross-functional and international teams

• Relevant certifications (e.g. Google Cloud Professional Cloud Engineer, Professional Cloud Security Engineer, or equivalent) are advantageous

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

• Fluent English (C1 or above); knowledge of Bulgarian is advantageous but not required

The Offer

• Hybrid working model: 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home

• Competitive remuneration package aligned with experience and market rates

• Home office allowance

• 25 days of paid annual leave

• Additional private health insurance

• Food vouchers

• Public transportation card

• Employee Assistance Program (Mental Health, Legal & Financial Counselling)

• Optional parking space

• Multisport card

• Modern office in a Class A business building in Sofia

• Comprehensive training, mentorship and career development support

• Access to over 15,000 LinkedIn Learning courses to support professional development

• Opportunity to work on international cloud transformation projects within a company that values diversity, inclusion, sustainability and mutual trust