DevOps Engineer – Google Cloud Platform, Terraform
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full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Pakistan
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About the role
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud-native infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Terraform across multiple environments (production, staging, sandbox, and customer deployments).
- Architect and operate serverless container workloads using Cloud Run, ensuring efficient scaling, resource management, and cost optimisation.
- Design and manage event-driven systems using Pub/Sub, including message retention, acknowledgement deadlines, dead-letter queues (DLQ), and monitoring.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Cloud Build, including automated Terraform deployments and GitOps-based workflows.
- Develop reusable Terraform modules and manage infrastructure across multiple GCP projects using best practices for remote state and environment separation.
- Manage containerized workloads and cloud networking using services such as GKE, VPC, Load Balancers, Cloud Armor, IAM, and Secret Manager.
- Collaborate with software engineers on architecture design decisions, including scaling strategies, service separation (HTTP vs WebSockets), and performance optimisation.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability using Google Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Sentry, and OpenTelemetry.
- Administer and optimise data infrastructure, including MongoDB Atlas, Redis, BigQuery, and Cloud Storage.**Perform incident response and root cause analysis, implementing long-term improvements to increase reliability and resilience.
- Own infrastructure end-to-end, including architecture decisions, performance optimisation, cost management, and operational excellence.
- Create and maintain documentation, operational runbooks, and best practices.
- Mentor engineers and promote DevOps and cloud architecture best practices across the organisation.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering experience supporting production cloud environments.
- Strong experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in production environments.
- Hands-on experience with Cloud Run and serverless container platforms in GCP.
- Experience designing and operating event-driven architectures using Google Cloud Pub/Sub.
- Strong understanding of serverless architecture patterns, including scaling behaviour and cost models for container workloads.
- Experience working with Cloud Functions, GKE, VPC networking, Load Balancers, Cloud Armor, IAM, and Secret Manager.
- Advanced experience with Terraform, including Infrastructure as Code for multi-environment systems, module development, remote state management, and Terraform Cloud workflows.
- Experience managing multi-project infrastructure setups in GCP using Terraform.
- Strong experience with Docker and containerized workloads.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Cloud Build.
- Experience administering MongoDB Atlas, including replication, backups, performance tuning, and network configuration.
- Proficiency in Python and Bash for automation and infrastructure tooling.
- Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, and observability in distributed cloud systems, including metrics, logs, tracing, and latency analysis.
- Ability to design, operate, and take ownership of infrastructure and systems end-to-end, including architecture decisions, performance optimisation, and cost management.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a fully remote, async-first team environment.
Benefits
- Fixed Shifts: 12:00 PM - 9:30 PM IST (Summer) | 1:00 PM - 10:30 PM IST (Winter)
- No Weekend Work: Real work-life balance, not just words
- Day 1 Benefits: Laptop and full medical insurance provided
- Support That Matters: Mentorship, community, and forums where ideas are shared
- True Belonging: A long-term career where your contributions are valued
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Hard Skills & Tools
TerraformGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Cloud RunPub/SubCI/CDDockerMongoDB AtlasPythonBashCloud Functions
Soft Skills
communicationmentoringcollaborationproblem-solvingoperational excellence