Lead DevOps Engineer
RemoteUkraine
Job Summary
Architect, deploy, and manage highly available Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and Kubernetes Engine environments. Maintain declarative infrastructure using Terraform and enforce GitOps workflows with Atlantis. Build and optimize automated CI/CD pipelines utilizing GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and ArgoCD. Manage enterprise networking perimeters, service mesh architectures, and API Gateways for secure traffic flow. Implement comprehensive telemetry, log aggregation, and alerting to ensure high availability and fast incident response. Enforce strict security postures, manage identity and secrets storage, and participate in operational on-call rotation.
Required Qualifications
- 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 (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), BigQuery, and 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
- GCP Professional Cloud Architect certification
- GCP Professional Security Engineer certification
- Kubernetes certifications (CKA / CKS)
- Practical experience with Loki, Grafana, or ClickHouse for centralized logging and metrics
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