Cloud Engineer(GCP)

Responsibilities

As a Cloud Engineer, you'll be an Engineering Specialist and help us discover the information hidden in vast amounts of data. You'll be part of the team which builds a hybrid cloud data platform that runs heavy computation jobs in the cloud as well as supports data scientist in their AI/ML modelling journey.

o Design, implement and operate key components for highly scalable, distributed data collect on and analysis system built for handling petabytes of data in the cloud.

o Work with architects of the analytics system and help in adopting best practices in backend infrastructure and distributed computing, that supports Machine Learning and Agentic workloads.

o Implement core practice of Agile, leveraging cloud-native architecture patterns and using Test Driven Development, continuous integration/continuous delivery

o Continuously discover, evaluate and implement new cloud technologies to maximize analytical system performance

Requirements

o Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including deploying and managing infrastructure and data services

o Enterprise experience building complex solutions within GCP and experience with architecting GCP production workloads for Business and IT operations, across a hybrid cloud environment.

o Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform to automate provisioning, configuration management, and orchestration within GCP

o Hands-on experience with containers and containers orchestrators (Kubernetes, Docker), as well as serverless architectures within GCP

o Hands-on experience with GKE, Dataproc, BigQuery

o Experience with Spark and different schema formats (Avro, Parquet)

o Understanding of infrastructure monitoring, log analysis, and automation for incident response within GCP

o Ability to instrument, validate, and automate security controls within GCP

o Demonstrable strong cloud architecture or development experience, specifically Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with associate or specialist level certification.

o Manage and resolve Operational issues as the L2/L3

Nice to have:
o Development experience in Java/Python and pride in producing clean, maintainable code.

o Familiarity with tracing/observability solutions, e.g. Open Telemetry

o Mastery of key development tools such as GIT, and familiarity with collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence or similar tools.

o Experience with SQL engines (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL)

o The ability to work with loosely defined requirements, and exercise your analytical skills to clarify questions, share your approach and build/test elegant solutions in weekly sprint/release cycles.