Senior Engineer, DevOps
On-siteBelfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Design, build, and maintain resilient, secure, and highly available infrastructure for all SaaS and Hosted services on Google Cloud Platform. Manage secure, scalable GCP network architecture including VPC design, peering, and DNS, while automating deployment pipelines and incident response using CI/CD and GitOps practices. Monitor site stability with GCP-native observability tooling and troubleshoot issues across the stack, scaling infrastructure to meet demand through autoscaling and load balancing. Own end-to-end operational responsibility for customer-facing environments, collaborate with Engineering and Product teams, and develop operational runbooks using AI and LLM tools. Proactively meet standards for information security and compliance including ISO and SOX. Requires 5+ years in 24x7 production operations with strong hands-on GCP expertise.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years' experience in 24x7 production operations supporting a highly available SaaS or cloud service environment
- Strong, hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — including GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, VPC networking, IAM, and GCP-native monitoring and logging services
- Strong, hands-on GCP infrastructure and networking experience — including VPC architecture, Cloud Interconnect/VPN, load balancing (GLB, ILB), Cloud DNS, firewall policies, and multi-region network design
- Experience with containerization and image management using Docker
- CI/CD pipeline experience (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or equivalent)
- GitOps workflow experience
- Experience with Java applications and related J2EE technology stack
- Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, or Go)
- experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, or equivalent)
- Strong understanding of networking concepts (DNS, TLS, load balancing, service mesh) and troubleshooting techniques
- Strong interpersonal and teaming skills — ability to set and enforce process and influence engineers who are not direct reports
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical discipline, or equivalent experience
Desired Qualifications
- familiarity with container security best practices
- CI/CD pipeline experience (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or equivalent); GitOps workflow experience a strong plus
- Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, or Go preferred)
- Comfortable using AI and LLM tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, or similar) as everyday productivity aids — for scripting, troubleshooting, documentation, and on-call investigation
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