Lead CloudOps Engineer

8+ years of DevOps, CloudOps, or platform engineering experience. Deep hands-on experience with GCP, including GKE, workload identity, cluster networking, VPC design, firewalls, load balancers, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, IAM, KMS, Secret Manager. Strong expertise with Terraform, including modules, workspaces, and governance patterns. Strong CI/CD experience with Git-based workflows and pipeline automation. Solid understanding of Linux, networking basics, containerization, and distributed systems. Experience supporting production workloads in a regulated environment (HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2 or similar). Practical experience supporting AWS operations (EC2, EKS, ALB/NLB, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM troubleshooting, Network troubleshooting). Comfortable maintaining and improving existing AWS infrastructure. Experience with GitOps tools (ArgoCD, Flux) (Preferred). Familiarity with service mesh (Istio, Anthos) or advanced networking (Preferred). Experience with policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper or Sentinel) (Preferred). Background with FinOps/cost optimization (Preferred). Experience building internal developer platforms or platform engineering teams (Preferred).

Lead day-to-day monitoring and management of GCP infrastructure. Manage GKE clusters. Implement and maintain GCP networking. Support data and application teams using GCP services. Own and maintain Terraform configurations for GCP and AWS. Automate environment provisioning, scaling, and configuration with CI/CD tools. Build tooling and workflows to improve developer productivity. Build and enhance observability stacks. Lead incident response, troubleshooting, RCA generation, and post-incident improvement efforts. Define and manage SLOs, error budgets, and operational runbooks. Ensure secure configurations across cloud services, Kubernetes workloads, secrets storage, and network boundaries. Implement guardrails and compliance automation. Work with security and compliance teams to meet requirements. Maintain stability of a pre-existing AWS environment. Review IAM roles and security posture in AWS. Support workloads on EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3. Troubleshoot AWS infrastructure or networking issues. Manage AWS configurations, upgrades, and patching. Assist teams relying on AWS-hosted systems. Make small-to-medium improvements or automation updates for AWS infrastructure. Mentor DevOps, CloudOps, and Platform Engineers. Partner with development, data, and security teams. Establish operational standards, documentation, and playbooks for cloud operations.