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