Empresa: Kstack
About the Role We are looking for an experienced Google Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) . This role has a strong focus on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, and cloud-native operations . You will work closely with engineering and application teams to build reliable deployment environments, improve infrastructure automation, strengthen operational resilience, and ensure cloud platforms are secure, observable, and production-ready. The ideal candidate combines strong hands-on GCP expertise with a solid understanding of Kubernetes, serverless architectures, automation, networking, security, and distributed systems. Key Responsibilities • Design, deploy, configure, and operate production-grade Kubernetes environments using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) . • Manage cluster scalability, resource allocation, workload scheduling, availability, and performance. • Deploy and operate scalable applications and microservices using Cloud Run , optimizing configurations for concurrency, resource utilization, performance, and startup latency. • Build and maintain automated infrastructure provisioning and deployment workflows using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines . • Manage core GCP services, including Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery , and related cloud infrastructure components. • Implement cloud security best practices, including IAM, least-privilege access, service accounts, VPC controls, secrets management, and encryption . • Design and maintain networking components such as VPCs, Shared VPCs, Cloud DNS, Cloud Load Balancing, VPC Peering, and firewall rules . • Monitor infrastructure health, application performance, latency, availability, and resource utilization using Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging . • Build proactive monitoring and alerting strategies and troubleshoot complex issues across distributed cloud environments. • Partner with software engineering teams to define deployment strategies, cloud architecture standards, and infrastructure requirements for applications. • Contribute to high-availability, business continuity, and disaster recovery strategies. • Create and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, operational runbooks, deployment procedures, and disaster recovery plans . • Drive continuous improvements in platform reliability, automation, security, scalability, and operational efficiency. Required Qualifications • 3–5 years of professional experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a related infrastructure-focused role. • Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and operating production workloads in cloud environments. • Proven experience deploying, configuring, scaling, and troubleshooting Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) environments. • Hands-on experience deploying and managing workloads with Cloud Run . • Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker . • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Crossplane, or Pulumi . • Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows. • Strong understanding of cloud-native and microservices architectures . • Solid knowledge of GCP networking concepts and services, including VPCs, Shared VPCs, Cloud DNS, Cloud Load Balancing, VPC Peering, and firewall configuration . • Strong understanding of cloud security principles, including IAM, service accounts, secrets management, encryption, and least-privilege access controls . • Experience with observability and monitoring using Google Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging , or comparable tooling. • Ability to automate operational tasks using at least one scripting or programming language such as Python, Go, Bash, or Node.js . • Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills, with the ability to diagnose infrastructure, networking, deployment, and performance issues in complex distributed environments. • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across infrastructure, platform, and application engineering teams. Education Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering , or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Preferred Qualifications • Google Cloud Certified – Associate Cloud Engineer or Professional Cloud Architect certification. • Experience with service mesh technologies and container-native networking. • Experience designing high-availability and disaster recovery architectures on GCP. • Experience supporting large-scale or enterprise production environments. • Familiarity with cloud cost optimization and resource governance practices.