Lead DevOps Engineer
RemoteRomania
Job Summary
Architect, deploy, and manage highly available Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes Engine infrastructure while maintaining declarative Terraform estates and enforcing GitOps workflows. Build and optimize automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and ArgoCD to ensure seamless continuous delivery. Manage enterprise networking perimeters, service mesh architectures with Istio, and API Gateways for secure traffic flow. Implement comprehensive telemetry, log aggregation, and alerting to drive system observability and fast incident response. Enforce strict security postures including VPC-SC, IAM, and Org Policies while participating in the operational on-call rotation.
Required Qualifications
- Deep GCP & Kubernetes Mastery
- Senior/Lead level experience operating production workloads on GCP and GKE
- Expert-level Terraform skills
- extensive experience running GitOps workflows at scale
- specifically via Atlantis
- Strong track record of designing, building, and maintaining multi-stage automated deployment pipelines
- High proficiency with Istio
- specifically VirtualServices, mTLS, sidecar injection
- High proficiency with API Gateways
- specifically Kong
- Hands-on experience enforcing enterprise-grade security and secret management
- Auth0, Dex, ESO, SOPS, VPC-SC, IAM
- Solid operational comfort with Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL)
- Solid operational comfort with BigQuery
- in-cluster datastores like Elasticsearch or ClickHouse
- At least an upper-intermediate level of spoken and written English
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with Ansible for host configuration, cluster bootstrapping, and disaster recovery
- Advanced Certifications: GCP Professional Cloud Architect, GCP Professional Security Engineer, or Kubernetes certifications (CKA / CKS)
- Practical experience with Loki, Grafana, or ClickHouse for centralized logging and metrics
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