Work location : Vadodara (Work from office)
Shift : US/Night Shift

Role Overview
We are hiring an Operations Engineer to own L3 operations across VMware and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The role is responsible for designing, building, and operating production-grade cloud environments, including Kubernetes (GKE), Kafka, and infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and GitHub. You will ensure platform reliability, secure change delivery, and high-quality L3 incident/problem ownership.

Key Responsibilities
VMware - L3 Administration
Act as L3 VMware administrator for vSphere / ESXi / vCenter environments.
Troubleshoot complex compute, storage, networking, and HA/DRS cluster issues.
Lead root-cause analysis for major incidents related to virtualization and on-prem compute.
Manage capacity planning, performance tuning, patching windows, and lifecycle upgrades.
Support VM provisioning standards, templates, and integration with backup/DR tooling.
Mentor L1/L2 teams and define escalation playbooks for VMware operations.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - Build & Operate
Create, configure,



and manage GCP environments (projects, folders, org policies, IAM).
Design and operate core GCP services: Compute Engine, VPC, Cloud DNS, Load Balancing, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL / managed data services as required.
Implement secure networking (Shared VPC, firewall rules, Private Google Access, Cloud NAT, VPN/Interconnect patterns).
Own setting lifecycle: non-prod to prod promotion, landing zone hygiene, and cost/FinOps tagging.
Configure monitoring, logging, and alerting using Cloud Monitoring / Logging (and complementary tools such as Prometheus/Grafana where used).
Participate in incident response, post-incident reviews, and reliability improvements.
Kubernetes
Deploy and manage GKE (or Kubernetes) clusters: node pools, upgrades, workloads, namespaces, RBAC.
Support CI/CD deployments to Kubernetes; troubleshoot pods, services, ingress, HPA, and networking issues.
Implement cluster securit

📌 Operations Engineer (Vadodara)
🏢 VikingCloud India
📍 Vadodara