Senior Engineer (DevOps GCP) / Lead Engineer

Company Description

We are engaged in a collaborative effort with a global staffing and business growth company for this position.

Job Description

Responsibilities: 

• Implement a hub and spoke model on GCP for multi-tenant environments, collaborating closely with the architecture team.
• Implement multi-region resilience, security, and cloud-agnostic infrastructure. 
• Set up GCP environments, including networking architecture, IAM roles, and robust security configurations. 
• Deploy and manage GKE clusters, Istio service mesh, and K8s services across GCP and Azure environments. 
• Utilize Terraform, Helm, Argo CD, and GitLab CI/CD for infrastructure as code implementation. 
• Implement solutions ensuring high availability, resilience, and optimal performance. 
• Ensure security best practices, compliance standards, governance, policies, and well-architected framework principles are met. 
• Facilitate seamless integration and knowledge transfer within internal teams. 
• Create comprehensive documentation. 

Qualifications

Mandatory skills:

• Expertise in GCP and a strong understanding of networking, including service meshes (Istio) and multi-cluster setups.
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes 
• Proficiency in Terraform and Helm for IaC deployments. 
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines. 
• Proficient in Python and GoLang for scripting, automation, and developing custom controllers. 
• Leading experience (only for the Lead position)

Nice to have skills: 

• Knowledge of security best practices, governance, and compliance standards 
• Familiarity with well-architected cloud framework principles 
• Experience in working with Architects

Additional Information

• Working remotely from Portugal
• Project-based collaboration
• Daily rates: 270-290 euros gross/day (could go higher for the lead role)

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