GKE Engineer

Core Responsibilities

Enterprise Cluster Orchestration

• Lead the deployment and lifecycle management of production
• GKE clusters
• . You will manage node pool configurations, version upgrades, and multi-zonal availability.

Advanced CI/CD Automation

Architect and maintain sophisticated deployment pipelines for microservices using

ArgoCD

(GitOps) and

GitHub Actions

, ensuring a 'push-to-deploy' developer experience.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Drive a 100% automation mandate by provisioning and managing all GCP resources using

Terraform

.

Optimization & Observability

• Implement proactive monitoring and fine-tune cluster performance. You will be responsible for cost-optimization through strategic
• autoscaling
• (HPA/VPA) and right-sizing.

Security Governance

• Establish a Zero Trust framework within the cluster by configuring granular
• IAM roles
• , service account least-privilege access, and
• FQDN-based network policies
• .

Kubernetes Tooling & Extensibility

Act as the subject matter expert for

Helm

, managing complex manifest updates, Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), and Kubernetes Operators.

Technical Requirements

Experience

• 5+ years
• of professional experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), with a heavy focus on Kubernetes.

Platform Expertise

Deep architectural knowledge of

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

and

GKE

.

Deployment Tools

Proven track record of implementing GitOps workflows using

ArgoCD

and automating workflows with

GitHub Actions

.

IaC Mastery

Expert-level proficiency in

Terraform

for managing complex cloud environments.

Packaging & CLI

• Advanced experience modifying
• Helm charts
• , managing CRDs, and using the Kubernetes CLI (
• kubectl
• ) for deep-dive troubleshooting.

Networking & Security

• Solid understanding of Kubernetes networking, including Ingress controllers, Load Balancers, and FQDN network policies.
• Why Join Us?
• Work in an innovative environment with the business that is shaping the future of data migration.
• Be part of a
• dynamic, high-growth environment
• at

NucleusTeq

• .
• Competitive salary and
• comprehensive benefits package
• .