Ase/se/sse - Cloudops

**Industry**:IT Product**Job Category**:IT/ Technical**Job Type**:Full Time**Job Location**:GurugramHybrid - 3 Days WFO

As a Cloud Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for deploying, managing, and optimizing our
cloud-based infrastructure, focusing on technologies such as Terraform, Kubernetes, GitOps/ArgoCD,
CI/CD, GitLab, Ansible, and more. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless
and scalability.

Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform to automate
provisioning and scaling of resources.
- Work with Kubernetes/CloudRun or any GCP compute engines to deploy, configure, and
- Implement and maintain GitOps practices using ArgoCD for declarative, automated
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment
processes.
- Collaborate with development teams to ensure the integration of GitLab and other version
control tools into the CI/CD workflow.
- Monitor and optimize system performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure high availability
and scalability of cloud services.
- Collaborate with the security team to implement security best practices and ensure
compliance with industry standards.
- Participate, troubleshoot and fix on any outages in on-call rotation to provide 24/7 support
for critical infrastructure incidents.
- Stay up-to-date with industry best practices and emerging technologies to continuously improve cloud operations.

**Requirements**:

- Proven experience in cloud infrastructure management, preferably with **GCP**.
- Strong expertise in T**erraform for infrastructure as code (IaC) and automation**.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration.
- Proficiency in CI/CD tools, with a focus on GitLab CI/CD,Familiarity with GitOps practices
and ArgoCD.
- Understanding of Linux systems and networking.
- Knowledge of security best practices and compliance standards.
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment

Education and/or Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, MIS, Computer Science or related field required
- Typically requires 3 to 15 years’ experience within the skills outlined above
- Written and deployed mission critical workloads to the public cloud (**preferably Google Cloud**)
- Experience with modern container orchestration systems: Kubernetes
- Experience in setting/selecting and documenting technology standards for a development
organization
- Has lead engineering teams or direct work effort of technical resources

Our client is a Fortune 500 US headquartered NYSE listed multinational -the largest retailer & distributor of the aftermarket automotive parts & accessories