Senior GCP & Oracle Cloud DevOps Engineer – Platform & Tools

We are seeking an experienced Senior GCP & Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and manage secure, scalable, highly available, and resilient cloud infrastructure across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) .

The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in multi-cloud architecture, DevOps practices, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD automation, Kubernetes, cloud networking, observability, and cloud security . You will work closely with development, QA, security, architecture, and operations teams to streamline software delivery, automate infrastructure management, and improve platform reliability across GCP and OCI environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure across GCP and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) .
• Design and support multi-cloud architectures, connectivity, and workloads spanning GCP and OCI.
• Implement reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules and automated provisioning using Terraform.
• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Google Cloud Build, OCI DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, and Argo CD .
• Deploy and manage containerized applications using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) .
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, application deployments, configuration management, monitoring, patching, and operational tasks.
• Implement and manage cloud networking, including VPC/VCN, subnets, routing, load balancers, DNS, VPNs, firewalls/security lists, NAT gateways, and private connectivity .
• Implement IAM, identity federation, service accounts, OCI dynamic groups, policies, and least-privilege access controls.
• Configure monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability using Google Cloud Operations Suite, OCI Monitoring, OCI Logging, Prometheus, and Grafana .
• Optimize cloud resources across GCP and OCI for performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and cost efficiency.
• Design and support backup, disaster recovery, high availability, and business continuity strategies across cloud environments.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and production issues and participate in incident management, root cause analysis, and remediation.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve application deployment, release management, and platform engineering processes.
• Implement and enforce DevSecOps , vulnerability management, secrets management, policy enforcement, and compliance standards.
• Support container and artifact security, vulnerability scanning, and secure software supply-chain practices.
• Maintain technical documentation, cloud architecture diagrams, deployment procedures, and operational runbooks.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote DevOps, automation, security, and cloud engineering best practices across teams.

Required Skills

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
• Compute Engine
• Cloud Run
• Cloud Functions
• Cloud Build
• Cloud Storage
• Cloud SQL
• BigQuery
• Pub/Sub
• VPC, IAM, Load Balancing, and Cloud DNS
• Secret Manager
• Artifact Registry
• Google Cloud Operations Suite

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

• Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE)
• OCI Compute
• OCI Functions
• OCI Container Instances
• OCI Object Storage
• OCI Database services
• Autonomous Database
• OCI DevOps
• OCI Container Registry / Artifact Registry
• Virtual Cloud Network (VCN)
• OCI IAM, compartments, policies, and dynamic groups
• OCI Load Balancer
• OCI DNS
• OCI Vault and Secrets
• OCI Monitoring and Logging
• OCI Notifications
• OCI Service Connector Hub
• OCI Cloud Guard and Security Zones
• FastConnect, Site-to-Site VPN, and Dynamic Routing Gateway (DRG)

DevOps & Infrastructure Automation

• Terraform
• Terraform modules and remote state management
• Ansible (preferred)
• Bash/Shell scripting
• Python (preferred)
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Helm
• GitOps practices

CI/CD

• Google Cloud Build
• OCI DevOps
• GitHub Actions
• GitLab CI/CD
• Jenkins
• Argo CD (preferred)

Kubernetes & Containers

• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
• Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE)
• Docker
• Kubernetes administration and troubleshooting
• Helm
• Kubernetes networking and ingress
• Kubernetes RBAC and security
• Container registry and image management
• Autoscaling and resource optimization

Monitoring & Logging

• Google Cloud Operations Suite
• OCI Monitoring
• OCI Logging
• OCI Logging Analytics
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• ELK/OpenSearch (preferred)
• Application and infrastructure alerting

Cloud Networking

• GCP VPC and OCI VCN
• Subnets and routing
• Load balancing
• DNS
• NAT
• Firewalls and OCI security lists/network security groups
• VPN and private connectivity
• OCI FastConnect
• GCP Cloud Interconnect
• TCP/IP and network troubleshooting
• Hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity

Security & DevSecOps

• GCP IAM and OCI IAM
• Workload Identity
• OCI dynamic groups and instance/resource principals
• OAuth and service accounts
• Secret Manager and OCI Vault
• Security Command Center
• OCI Cloud Guard
• Container security and vulnerability scanning
• Policy enforcement and compliance
• Encryption and key management
• Identity federation and least-privilege access
• Security automation and remediation

Version Control

• Git
• GitHub
• GitLab
• Bitbucket
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 6–10+ years of overall IT/DevOps/Cloud Engineering experience.
• 4–6+ years of hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform and/or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure , with strong practical experience in at least one platform and demonstrated experience working with the other.
• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, or operating multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments is strongly preferred.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, particularly GKE and/or OKE , and Docker.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Terraform , including reusable modules, state management, and automated infrastructure deployment.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong cloud and networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, load balancing, VPNs, VPC/VCN, firewalls, and private connectivity .
• Experience implementing cloud IAM, secrets management, encryption, network security, and other cloud security best practices.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, observability, incident management, and production troubleshooting.
• Understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity principles.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps and automated security controls is preferred.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, documentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with application development, security, architecture, QA, and infrastructure teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer, Professional Cloud Architect, or equivalent GCP certification.
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional, DevOps Professional, or equivalent OCI certification.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).
• HashiCorp Terraform certification.
• Experience migrating workloads between on-premises environments, GCP, and OCI.
• Experience designing GCP-to-OCI connectivity and multi-cloud architectures .
• Experience with GitOps, platform engineering, and Kubernetes-based deployment patterns.
• Experience operating enterprise-scale, highly available production environments.