Lead / Sr. DevOps Engineer

Client Type: Product-based

Job Type: Full-Time With Client

Work Mode: Hybrid

Base Location: Bengaluru, India

Experience: 6-11 Years

Skills: GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, GKE

Role Overview

As an 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 enablesafe and repeatable deployments from DEV to PROD, including application releases and infrastructure changes.
• Build, improve, and maintainCI/CD pipelines using GitOps principles and ensure teams follow standard guardrails.
• Develop and maintain application‑specificInfrastructure as Code (IaC) to deploy services (containers/VMs, secrets, load balancers, certs) using reusable platform components.
• Act asfirst 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 toself‑service frameworks for developers.
• Identify gaps and drive improvements acrossreliability, scaling, automation, and cost optimisation for your product area.
• Partner with architects/platform teams to review architectures and ensure solutions meetcloud readiness / operational standards.

Required Qualifications

• High ownership, clear communicator, comfortable working embedded with product teams.
• GCP (3+ years)in production environments.
• Strong Kubernetes / GKEexperience (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).