Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Summary

Join 66degrees as a Senior Cloud Engineer for a 3-6 month remote contract (with potential extension) to deliver and operate high-quality, secure software. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement DevOps principles and CI/CD tooling. You will manage cloud resources in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ensuring application and infrastructure health. This role requires strong experience with CI/CD, GCP, Kubernetes, and automation tools. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in cloud engineering and a passion for continuous improvement. Must be available to start within 30 days.

Requirements

• 5+ years designing, delivering, and operating scalable, available, high-performance applications and supporting infrastructure
• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
• Advanced hands-on experience with continuous integration and delivery / deployment methodologies and technologies
• Advanced experience with computer, networking, security, storage, monitoring, logging, serverless and other technologies in Google Cloud Platform or similar major cloud environment
• Strong experience with containerization (e.g. Docker), Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Proficiency with Linux systems engineering and administration
• Working knowledge of Helm and Service Mesh (e.g. Istio)
• Proficient understanding of microservices principles and orchestration
• Excellence in navigating and prioritizing multiple simultaneous responsibilities of varying scope and complexity
• Ability to effectively articulate technical concepts to audiences at all organizational levels via oral, written, and other non-verbal communications
• Demonstrated desire and ability to be self-directed, take ownership of issues, and establish a prominent level of credibility
• Ability to work well independently and within dynamic, cross-functional teams
• Excellent understanding of Internet concepts, technologies and protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS / SSL, etc.)
• Experience with rapid detection and troubleshooting of technical issues using various monitoring and application performance management tools
• Proficiency with shell scripting, Python and/or other scripting languages in a Linux environment
• Ability to operate effectively under pressure, both independently and in collaboration with other resources
• Ability to rapidly learn new technologies via mentoring, formal training, and independent research and testing
• A genuine desire and willingness to share knowledge effectively with others

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with technology teams to design, build, document and support CI/CD automation leveraging Jenkins, Git-based version control systems (Bitbucket preferred), and other tools
• Provision and manage cloud resources and Kubernetes configuration using Terraform, Google Cloud SDK, kubectl, Google Cloud Console and other tools
• Automate repeatable processes with Jenkins, Linux shell scripts, Python and/or other tools
• Troubleshoot and resolve an array of issues in CI/CD, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and other technologies
• Implement various automation to support development, operations, and security best practices, with a “shift left” mentality
• Implement and maintain effective infrastructure and application monitoring and logging solutions to improve visibility, observability and incident detection, response, and prevention
• Provide leadership in incident response activities to rapidly restore service
• Create and maintain technical, procedural, and educational documentation related to client’s cloud ecosystem
• Embrace a culture of enablement, customer service, continuous improvement, transparency, and fiscal responsibility
• Perform other duties as directed

Preferred Qualifications

• Google Professional Cloud Architect or similar certification desired
• Familiarity with modern application languages and concepts, with hands-on e-commerce software development experience preferred