Cloud DevOps Engineer

Cloud DevOps Engineer Location: Kraków, Poland Working model: Hybrid — 6 days per month from the Kraków office About the role As a Cloud DevOps Engineer, you will work within an Agile team of Engineers and Operations professionals, building and managing highly resilient, scalable and high-performing GCP infrastructure in an automated and efficient way. You will work closely with Application DevOps teams and cross-functional IT teams. The role requires a proactive approach, a willingness to innovate and the ability to investigate and adopt new products and services offered by GCP to achieve maximum performance. Key responsibilities - Build and manage the GCP foundation platform to enable application deployments. - Engineer solutions on the GCP foundation platform using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methods, such as Terraform. - Integrate, configure, deploy and manage centrally provided cloud services, including IAM, networking, logging, operating systems and containers. - Manage SDN in GCP. - Consume centrally agreed Hardened OS environments, including Linux and Windows. - Ensure compliance with centrally defined Security requirements. - Ensure compliance with Operational Risk standards, including network, firewall, OS, logging, monitoring, availability and resiliency. - Build and support Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and Continuous Testing activities. - Implement centrally provided patches. - Support non-functional testing. - Maintain support and operational documentation as required. - Troubleshoot issues and provide support to Application teams. - Ensure effective Change Management practices in line with central standards. - Provide impact assessments for proposed changes to the GCP core platform. - Participate in a rotational on-call schedule, providing out-of-hours support as part of our 24/7 coverage. Qualifications and experience The ideal candidate will have: - Experience building a range of services with a Cloud Service Provider, ideally GCP. - Expert understanding of DevOps principles and Infrastructure as Code concepts and techniques. - Strong understanding of CI/CD and available tools. - Experience configuring SDN within a Cloud Service Provider, including VPCs and XPN. - Good understanding of physical networking, including subnets, NAT and routing. - Knowledge of Security and Compliance, including IAM, ADFS, OAuth and cloud compliance, auditing and monitoring tools. - Strong customer and stakeholder focus, with the ability to build strong relationships with Application teams and cross-functional, global and local IT teams. - Good leadership and teamwork skills, with the ability to work collaboratively in an Agile environment with Application DevOps pods and provide the GCP-specific capabilities required to deliver the service. - Strong focus on operational effectiveness and delivering solutions aligned with approved design patterns and security standards. - Strong risk management capabilities. - Excellent skills in at least one of the following programming languages: Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, Go, Groovy or Scala. - Experience with full automation and configuration management. - A track record of continuously looking for ways to improve processes and a strong understanding of the mechanisms required to successfully implement change. - Experience setting and achieving challenging short-, medium- and long-term goals that exceed standards in the field. - Excellent written and spoken communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex information clearly and effectively to a wide range of audiences. - The ability to build effective networks across business areas and develop relationships based on mutual trust. - A successful track record of delivering complex projects and/or programmes using appropriate techniques and tools to ensure and measure success. - A comprehensive understanding of risk management and proven experience ensuring compliance with relevant regulatory processes. Essential skills - Demonstrable Cloud Service Provider experience, ideally GCP, including infrastructure build and configuration of services such as Compute, Storage and SDN (VPC and XPN). - Demonstrable experience in Linux administration and scripting, preferably Red Hat. - Experience working with Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Testing tools. - Experience working within an Agile environment. - Programming experience in one or more of the following: Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, Go, Groovy or Scala. - Server administration experience with either Linux or Windows. - Experience with automation scripting using tools such as Terraform and Ansible. - Ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools. Desirable skills - GCP Certifications, ideally Professional level. - Linux Certification. - Windows Server Certification. - Experience working in a highly regulated industry, e.g. Financial Services. - Flexible working - Opportunities to grow - An inclusive and diverse environment