Posted 25 July, 2026
GCP Senior Dev Ops / Platform Engineer
Vantage Point Consulting
India
Full Time
Reference: 365_594564_26-02335
Total Experience : 8 to 10yrs, with Very strong in communication, proactive, collaborative, go-getter, etc.
Work model: hybrid and locationindependent, with office presence only when required by company or client.
Job Overview
The Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer is a hands-on platform capability specialist responsible for implementing, operating, and improving cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and operational tooling within an established platform architecture.
Key Responsibilities
- Build, configure, and maintain cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in line with agreed patterns and modules.
- Implement and support CI/CD pipelines for application and platform services, following established standards.
- Operate and support production and non-production environments, ensuring availability, performance, and reliability.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using agreed observability tooling.
- Support containerised workloads and runtime platforms (e.g. Cloud Run, Kubernetes) within defined guardrails.
- Manage service configuration, secrets, and environment variables using approved tooling and processes.
- Support incident investigation and resolution, providing diagnostics and remediation under onshore leadership.
- Implement platform security controls, patching, and hardening based on defined security standards.
- Contribute to platform documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
- Participate in on-call or operational support rotations where required, following defined escalation paths.
- Work within Agile/Scrum teams to deliver platform and reliability improvements.
The candidate must have:
Cloud & infrastructure
5-8+ years of experience in DevOps / Platform / Site Reliability Engineering roles.
Strong hands-on experience with GCP or another hyperscaler.
Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
Experience managing networking, IAM, and service accounts in cloud environments.
CI/CD & automation
Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, Jenkins).
Experience automating operational tasks using scripting languages (e.g. Bash, Python).
Familiarity with release management and deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling).
Runtime & observability
Experience running containerised platforms (Docker, Cloud Run, Kubernetes).
Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools.
Ability to diagnose issues using metrics, logs, and traces.
Security & reliability
Solid understanding of cloud security fundamentals (IAM, secrets management, least privilege).
Experience implementing reliability and availability best practices.
Familiarity with compliance-driven environments and change control processes.
