[Hiring] Cloud Operations Engineer @APN Consulting, Inc.

Role Description

We are seeking a Cloud Operations Engineer with strong GCP skills and experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.

• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure design, provisioning, deployment, and troubleshooting.
• Strong understanding of GCP core services:
  • Compute Engine
  • GKE
  • Cloud Run
  • Cloud Storage
  • Cloud SQL
  • IAM
  • VPC
  • Load Balancing
  • Cloud Logging
  • Cloud Monitoring
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform:
  • HCL
  • Reusable modules
  • Variables
  • Remote state
  • State locking
  • Workspaces/environments
  • Plan/apply lifecycle
  • Drift handling
  • Code review
• CI/CD experience using Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or equivalent.
• Good understanding of networking:
  • VPC
  • Subnetting
  • Firewall rules
  • Private connectivity
  • Load balancers
  • DNS
  • NAT
  • VPN
  • Interconnect
  • Cloud Router
  • Shared VPC
  • Hub-spoke architecture
• Production troubleshooting exposure:
  • Logs
  • Metrics
  • Alerts
  • Incident response
  • Performance
  • Reliability
  • Cost optimisation
• Scripting knowledge in Bash, Python, or Go.
• Good security basics:
  • IAM least privilege
  • Service accounts
  • Secrets
  • KMS
  • Audit logging
  • Vulnerability awareness
• Ability to explain real-world implementation decisions, trade-offs, and failure scenarios.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, cloud operations, or SRE.
• 4 years hands-on experience on GCP.

Requirements

• Terraform HCL, modules, remote state, state locking, reusable templates, environment separation.
• Containerisation and Kubernetes basics:
  • Deployments
  • Services
  • Ingress
  • Config maps
  • Secrets
  • Autoscaling
  • Troubleshooting
• Linux administration and basic scripting.
• GCP Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, IAM, VPC, Load Balancers, Cloud NAT, Cloud Router, Cloud DNS.
• CI/CD using Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
• Monitoring and logging using Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent.

Benefits

• We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace.
• Encouragement for applications from candidates of all genders, races, ethnicities, abilities, and experiences.