10+ years in Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering, with strong hands-on experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced GCP DevOps Architect to design, implement, and operate highly scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-efficient cloud platforms on GCP.

The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in GCP, GKE, Kubernetes, DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, security, and high-availability architecture, with experience building platforms capable of handling 5–10 million users / high-volume production traffic.

The candidate will be responsible for defining cloud architecture, DevOps standards, deployment strategies, reliability engineering practices, and platform automation.

Key Responsibilities

GCP & Cloud Architecture

Design highly available and scalable cloud architectures on GCP.

Architect platforms capable of supporting 5–10 million users and high-volume traffic.

Design multi-region / multi-zone architectures for high availability and disaster recovery.

Select and optimize appropriate GCP services based on scalability, reliability, performance, and cost.

Design networking architecture including VPC, subnets, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud NAT, Cloud DNS, Private Service Connect, firewall policies, and hybrid connectivity.

Define cloud architecture standards, reference architectures, and engineering best practices.

GKE & Kubernetes

Strong hands-on experience designing and managing GKE production clusters.

Design scalable GKE architectures including:

Regional and private GKE clusters

Node pools and workload isolation

Cluster autoscaling

Horizontal/Vertical Pod Autoscaling

Workload Identity

Ingress and Gateway architecture

Network policies

Pod security

Optimize Kubernetes workloads for performance, availability, and cost.

Define Kubernetes deployment, upgrade, backup, and disaster recovery strategies.

Troubleshoot complex production issues involving Kubernetes, networking, compute, and application performance.

DevOps & CI/CD





Design and implement enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines.

Strong experience with tools such as GitHub/GitLab, Jenkins, Cloud Build, Argo CD, and/or other CI/CD platforms.

Implement GitOps-based deployment strategies where appropriate.

Automate build, test, security scanning, deployment, rollback, and release processes.

Implement progressive delivery strategies such as:

Blue/Green deployments

Canary releases

Rolling deployments

Establish DevOps standards across development and operations teams.

Infrastructure as Code

Strong hands-on experience with Terraform.

Build reusable Terraform modules and infrastructure frameworks.

Automate provisioning and configuration of GCP infrastructure.

Implement infrastructure versioning, state management, policy controls, and automated validation.

Experience with configuration management and automation tools is desirable.

Scalability & Reliability

Architect systems for millions of users and high concurrent traffic.

Design autoscaling strategies across compute, Kubernetes, databases, and networking layers.

Implement SRE practices including

SLIs/SLOs/SLAs

Error budgets

Capacity planning

Reliability engineering

Incident management

Performance engineering

Conduct architecture reviews, scalability assessments, and production readiness reviews.

Design fault-tolerant systems with appropriate RTO/RPO targets.

Monitoring & Observability

Design comprehensive monitoring and observability solutions using Google Cloud Operations Suite / Cloud Monitoring / Cloud Logging and tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog.

Implement infrastructure, application, Kubernetes, and business-level monitoring.





Establish centralized logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and dashboards.

Analyze production performance and identify bottlenecks.

Security

Implement GCP security best practices across infrastructure and Kubernetes.

Strong understanding of:

IAM

Service Accounts

Workload Identity

Secret Manager

KMS

VPC Service Controls

Organization Policies

Security Command Center

Container/image security

Implement least-privilege access and secure CI/CD pipelines.

Integrate vulnerability scanning and security controls into the DevOps lifecycle.

Cost Optimization

Monitor and optimize GCP infrastructure costs.

Optimize GKE compute, node pools, autoscaling, storage, networking, and logging costs.

Establish cloud FinOps practices and cost governance.

Identify opportunities for capacity optimization without compromising reliability.

Required Technical Skills

Must Have

Strong GCP expertise

Solid GKE / Kubernetes expertise

Strong Terraform / IaC

Advanced CI/CD and DevOps

GCP networking and security

Linux and container technologies

Production experience with highly scalable systems

Experience supporting 5–10 million users or equivalent high-volume traffic

High Availability and Disaster Recovery architecture

Monitoring, logging, and observability

Strong troubleshooting and incident-management skills

FinOps experience

Experience with Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL/MySQL, NoSQL platforms

Experience with API Gateway / Apigee

Experience with microservices architecture

Leadership & Soft Skills

Strong architectural and problem-solving capabilities.

Ability to communicate complex cloud architecture to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Experience mentoring DevOps, SRE, and cloud engineering teams.

Ability to lead architecture decisions and establish engineering standards.

Strong ownership of production reliability and operational excellence.

Ability to work effectively with application, security, data, and infrastructure teams.

📌 GCP Devops Architect (Bengaluru)
🏢 OpsTree Global
📍 Bengaluru