Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Join Veson Nautical as a Principal Site Reliability Engineer, where you will design, build, monitor, and support our cloud infrastructure. This role focuses on expanding our Google Cloud Platform footprint and improving the consistency and observability of our existing systems. You will have a significant influence on the architectural direction of our platform and will work closely with development teams to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability.

• Design, implement, and operate scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure across Google Cloud Platform and AWS.
• Lead greenfield infrastructure builds for new applications, and modernize existing infrastructure toward common patterns.
• Drive automation of infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Terraform and related IaC tooling.
• Production Kubernetes experience, particularly Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
• Demonstrated ability to raise the technical capability of a team through mentorship, documentation, and knowledge sharing
• Previous experience working on a large-scale Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform supporting thousands of global users in a 24x7x365 environment
• Experience with Google Cloud networking, including VPC, Cloud Load Balancing, and Cloud CDN
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or TypeScript for automation and tool development
• A track record of building consensus around technical decisions that span multiple teams
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code, preferably Terraform with the GCP provider
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform services and architecture, including running production workloads at scale
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• This role is scoped at the Principal level, and we may also consider well-qualified candidates at the Senior level
• If you're excited about this role, but do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply. While we try to be thorough with our job descriptions, not everything about you as a candidate can be condensed into a list of bullet points
• Hands-on experience with both GCP and AWS, and a clear point of view on where multi-cloud helps and where it hurts
• Working knowledge of Google Cloud security best practices and IAM implementation
• Experience with Google Cloud data services including BigQuery and Dataflow
• Experience with cloud cost management (budgeting, anomaly detection, cost analysis and reporting)
• Experience working on a geographically distributed team across time zones
• Google Cloud Professional certifications (Cloud Architect, Data Engineer, or DevOps Engineer)
• Experience with GitLab CI or Octopus Deploy