Cloud Devops - Associate Manager

Job Description

POSITION SUMMARY

The Cloud DevOps Lead is responsible for establishing and evolving GCP-native DevOps culture and engineering practices across the organization. You will lead a team of DevOps engineers, define CI/CD standards using GCP-native tooling, architect automation frameworks on GCP, and embed security into the software delivery lifecycle - accelerating delivery velocity while maintaining system reliability and compliance on Google Cloud Platform.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Define and drive the DevOps strategy and CI/CD pipeline standards using GCP-native tools (Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, Artifact Registry).
Lead a team of DevOps engineers, providing technical mentorship and career development.
Lead Kubernetes-based deployment workflows on GKE using Helm, ArgoCD, or Cloud Deploy.
Establish GitOps practices for GCP configuration and infrastructure management.
Integrate GCP-native security scanning, Binary Authorization, and compliance gates into pipelines (DevSecOps).
Implement and maintain observability stacks using Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and Cloud Trace.
Drive SRE principles including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and incident management on GCP.
Collaborate with Dev, QA, and Infra teams to enable continuous delivery at scale on GCP.
Manage GCP Artifact Registry, Secret Manager, and release versioning strategies.
Champion automation of operational tasks using GCP-native automation and self-service infrastructure.
Lead post-mortem reviews and drive continuous improvement in deployment reliability.
Support hybrid workload pipelines delivering to both GCP and on-prem environments.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS (GCP MANDATORY)

10+ years of experience with 5+ years in a DevOps lead or senior role.
Hands-on expertise with GCP DevOps tooling: Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, Artifact Registry, Cloud Source Repositories and GitHub Actions - mandatory.
Strong GKE experience including cluster operations, Workload Identity, and automated deployments.
Proficiency in Terraform for GCP infrastructure automation.
Experience with GitOps tools: ArgoCD, Flux, or GCP Cloud Deploy.
Solid scripting skills in Python and/or Bash.
Experience with GCP monitoring: Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and Cloud Trace.
Knowledge of DevSecOps practices: Binary Authorization, Container Analysis, Artifact Registry security.
Experience with hybrid CI/CD pipelines integrating GCP with on-prem environments.

PREFERRED / NICE-TO-HAVE (AWS / AZURE CONSIDERED)

Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer certification (strongly preferred).
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or CKAD.
Experience with Jenkins as complementary CI tools (nice to have).
AWS DevOps or Azure DevOps experience (nice to have).

Mandatory Competencies