About the role
We are seeking a motivated and skilled DevOps Engineer I to join our Cloud Platform team. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud operations. The role involves supporting and improving cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability, platform reliability, and automation initiatives. The candidate should be comfortable working in regulated or closed-network environments and supporting modern data platform services running on GCP. Key
Responsibilities:
- Manage and support GCP infrastructure and platform services.
- Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Support CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (GitLab and ArgoCD).
- Monitor platform health, performance, and availability. Implement cloud security and operational best practices.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, and application issues.
- Support data platform services and cloud-native integrations.
- Participate in incident response and root cause analysis activities.
- Contribute to cloud cost optimization initiatives.
- Work closely with development, data engineering, and platform teams.
Requirements:
- Required Skills: Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Compute Engine, VPC Networking, IAM, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud DNS, Cloud Storage (GCS), Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Kubernetes.
- Experience with GKE Kubernetes deployments and troubleshooting; Ingress and networking concepts; resource management; pod lifecycle management; Infrastructure as Code Terraform.
- Terraform modules: Remote state management; infrastructure automation; networking; VPC design and management; subnets; routing; firewall rules; VPN and private connectivity concepts; data platform services.
- Exposure to: BigQuery, Cloud Composer (Apache Airflow), and Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs.
- Document Author: People Team; Version Control: 1.0 Released on 1-Apr-20 for Internal Circulation Only; Kafka, CloudAMQP, Google Cloud Storage (GCS).
- Monitoring and Operations: Grafana, Prometheus, Cloud Monitoring, Incident Troubleshooting
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in closed or restricted network environments.
- Understanding of multi-project GCP environments.
- Familiarity with security and compliance controls.
- Basic scripting skills (Python, Bash, Shell).
- Exposure to GitOps methodologies.
- Good to have: ArgoCD, Helm, FinOps, and cloud cost optimization practices.