DevOps Engineer

Job : Devops Engineer Location : Buffalo, NY 1-2 days from the office Duration : 6 months+ |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.