GCP DevOps Engineer II

Candescent is a forward-thinking technology company transforming how financial institutions deliver Intelligent Banking experiences. We unite digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions that power and connect digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions—creating seamless engagement across digital, remote, and in-person channels.

Our Experience-Led, Intelligence-Driven approach combines human-centered design with data, automation, and cloud-based innovation. Built on an API-first architecture, our extensible ecosystem enables institutions to adapt quickly, integrate easily, and unlock new opportunities for growth—turning every customer interaction into a moment of clarity, confidence, and connection.

Position: GCP Dev Ops Engineer II

Experience: 4-6 Years

Location: Bangalore (Ecospace)

Job Description

Role Summary

As an Embedded DevOps Engineer, you will work closely with a product development team and act as the key enabler for getting services production‑ready in GCP. This role is the “engine” that helps product teams onboard to our cloud, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and operational readiness practices, ensuring services can be deployed, supported, and run reliably in production.

Key Responsibilities

• Work embedded with product teams to enable safe and repeatable deployments from DEV to PROD, including application releases and infrastructure changes.
• Build, improve, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitOps principles and ensure teams follow standard guardrails.
• Develop and maintain application‑specific Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to deploy services (containers/VMs, secrets, load balancers, certs) using reusable platform components.
• Act as first responder for production incidents for the applications you support; drive operational concerns to closure in partnership with SRE/ROC and development teams.
• Improve operational efficiency by automating repetitive tasks and contributing to self‑service frameworks for developers.
• Identify gaps and drive improvements across reliability, scaling, automation, and cost optimisation for your product area.
• Partner with architects/platform teams to review architectures and ensure solutions meet cloud readiness / operational standards.

Education / Background (Expectation)

• B.Tech/M.Tech in Computer Science
• Product company experience preferred; fintech/domain experience preferred

Must‑Have Skills (Non‑Negotiable)

• High ownership, clear communicator, comfortable working embedded with product teams.
• GCP (3 years) in production environments.
• Strong Kubernetes / GKE experience (running & supporting production workloads).
• Docker container build/release patterns (hands-on).
• CI/CD with GitHub Actions (build deploy troubleshooting).
• Terraform (IaC) for infra delivery.
• NGINX Helm (Ingress basics, chart usage/standardisation).
• Solid cloud networking (VPCs, firewall rules, ingress/egress).

Good‑to‑Have Skills

• Cloudflare exposure
• Observability tools: Prometheus / Grafana / Dynatrace (or similar)
• ArgoCD / GitOps tooling experience
• Scripting (Python)
• Java / Spring Boot support experience
• Exposure to AI tools / AI agents to improve site reliability

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