Hybrid – 3 Days WFO

As a Cloud Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for deploying, managing, and optimizing our
cloud-based infrastructure, focusing on technologies such as Terraform, Kubernetes, GitOps/ArgoCD,
CI/CD, GitLab, Ansible, and more. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless
deployment and delivery of applications while maintaining the highest standards of reliability, security,
and scalability.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform to automate
  provisioning and scaling of resources.
• Work with Kubernetes/CloudRun or any GCP compute engines to deploy, configure, and
  maintain containerized applications and microservices.
• Implement and maintain GitOps practices using ArgoCD for declarative, automated
  application deployment and management.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment
  processes.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure the integration of GitLab and other version
  control tools into the CI/CD workflow.
• Monitor and optimize system performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure high availability
  and scalability of cloud services.
• Collaborate with the security team to implement security best practices and ensure
  compliance with industry standards.
• Participate, troubleshoot and fix on any outages in on-call rotation to provide 24/7 support
  for critical infrastructure incidents.
• Stay up-to-date with industry best practices and emerging technologies to continuously improve cloud operations.

Requirements:

• Proven experience in cloud infrastructure management, preferably with GCP.
• Strong expertise in Terraform for infrastructure as code (IaC) and automation.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools, with a focus on GitLab CI/CD,Familiarity with GitOps practices
  and ArgoCD.
• Understanding of Linux systems and networking.
• Knowledge of security best practices and compliance standards.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, MIS, Computer Science or related field required
• Typically requires 3 to 15 years’ experience within the skills outlined above
• Written and deployed mission critical workloads to the public cloud (preferably Google Cloud)
• Experience with modern container orchestration systems: Kubernetes
• Experience in setting/selecting and documenting technology standards for a development
  organization
• Has lead engineering teams or direct work effort of technical resources

Our client is a Fortune 500 US headquartered NYSE listed multinational –the largest retailer & distributor of the aftermarket automotive parts & accessories