Senior DevOps Engineer

A fast-growing SaaS company building reliable, scalable cloud-native products used by customers worldwide. Their platform processes high-volume traffic and data, and reliability, security, and automation are core to our success. We value ownership, collaboration, and pragmatic engineering.

Role Overview

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will design, build, and operate highly available infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will work closely with software engineers, security, and product teams to improve developer productivity, system reliability, and platform scalability. This role requires strong hands-on technical expertise as well as the ability to lead initiatives and mentor others.

Key Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on GCP

Build and manage Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform

Develop and maintain CI / CD pipelines using Jenkins to enable fast, reliable deployments

Operate and optimize Docker and containerized workloads

Improve system observability using monitoring, logging, and alerting tools

Lead reliability, performance, and cost-optimization initiatives

Partner with application teams to support cloud-native architecture and best practices

Implement and enforce security best practices (IAM, secrets management, network security)

Participate in on-call rotations and incident response, driving post-incident improvements

Mentor junior engineers and contribute to DevOps standards and documentation

Required Qualifications

5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering

Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Ansible

Experience managing production workloads on Docker

Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)

Strong Linux and networking fundamentals

Experience building and maintaining CI / CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Cloud Build)

Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Monitoring)

Solid understanding of security best practices in cloud environments

Strong problem-solving skills and ability to operate in a fast-paced SaaS environment

Nice to Have

Experience with multi-region or multi-cloud architectures

Background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices

Experience with service meshes, autoscaling, and performance tuning

Knowledge of compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.)

Experience supporting high-scale, customer-facing SaaS platforms