Cloud DevOps Engineer (GCP)

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Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent professional experience)
• Significant software development/programming experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar software engineering role.
• Experience working in agile software development teams
• Experience working with Docker
• Experience creating and managing infrastructure with Terraform
• Experience working with Cloud technologies, specifically GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
• Experience in designing and/or developing infrastructure, configuration, and deployment automation at large scale/high complexity
• Practical experience with virtualization, storage, and networking
• Expertise in script languages (Shell, Python)
• Python or Unix scripting experience
• Experience in software release management: Git, CI/CD

Responsibilities:

• Make sure all cloud project budgets are below the limit.
• Fix security vulnerabilities directly or coordinate with different resource owners. Vulnerabilities include outdated VM OSs and outdated libraries in generated images.
• Continuous clean-up of cloud project resources such as GCP Bigquery datasets, GCP Compute Engine VMs, disks, GCP Cloud Storage, and other services that may be in use.
• Ensure both the research and engineering teams follow Cloud best practices, such as adding labels to all created resources, cleaning up data/virtual machines/etc during and after projects end, keeping VMs off if they are not being used, and using correct networks instead of public IPs.
• Jointly with the CTO and Cloud Security Engineer, keep the Cloud best practices up to date and help distribute updates to those using the cloud.
• Jointly with the Senior DevOps engineer improve current GCS infrastructure and manage tools that are used by the team.
• Work jointly with the Data Team to make sure public resources have the corresponding documentation.
• Create and make sure monitors to review Cloud Compute costs and performance are setup, meaningful, and assigned to the corresponding owners.
• Create and configure resources for the different users using Terraform.
• Bring ideas of how to improve and make the entire cloud setup more efficient.
• Create dashboards to help the different cloud project owners easily understand compute costs, including high-level summary cost dashboards.
• Create dashboards with metrics we want to track, such as the number of incidents reported and fixed, and the number of vulnerabilities per month.
• Send brief information about the Cloud status to the team using the Cloud on a periodic basis to the CTO.
• The CloudDev Ops will also have software engineering tasks and may provide support to both the Research and Engineering teams when some ad-hoc scripting is needed, such as downloading static datasets needed for research.