Job Title: Cloud DevOps Engineer (GCP)

Location: Buffalo, NY, 1-2 days from the office

Job Type: 6+ Months Contract

Must be comfortable to work on 1099

Need GC or USC

• Design, build, and run GCP infrastructure.

• Provision and manage core GCP services, including: VMs (Linux and Windows) on Compute Engine, GKE clusters, Dataproc clusters, Cloud SQL instances

• Automate provisioning, config, and deployments using Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, or Cloud Deployment Manager.

• Monitor and tune platforms for performance, cost, and scale using Google Cloud Operations Suite (Stackdriver), Prometheus, and/or Grafana.

• Keep things secure: IAM, network controls, and encryption.

• Partner with app teams to speed up delivery and improve reliability.

• Troubleshoot prod/non-prod issues, then complete RCA and documentation.

• Implement backup and disaster recovery for critical services and data.

• Translate requirements into design specs aligned to business agreements.

• Work well in a team and pick things up quickly.

What you’ll bring

• 5+ years in IT development/engineering.

• Bachelor’s or master’s in computer science/engineering (or similar).

• GCP certs (Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer / Cloud Architect) are a bonus.

• Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid setups.

• Must-have: hands-on GKE, Helm, and Kubernetes app deployment experience.

• Hands-on with Python and GCP services: Composer/Airflow, Data Fusion, Big Query, Cloud Storage, GCE, Dataflow.

• Solid DevOps tooling knowledge: Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, GitHub, etc.

• Comfortable on Unix/Linux and with shell scripting.

• Monitoring/logging experience with Cloud Operations, Prometheus, Grafana.

• Good grasp of networking: VPCs, firewalls, load balancers, DNS.

• Strong Git skills, including branching strategies.