Senior GCP DevOps Engineer (Cloud Platform)

About the role

Lumenalta is looking for a Senior GCP DevOps Engineer with a strong DevSecOps mindset to join a high‑impact cloud platform engagement. You will design and operate secure, scalable infrastructure on Google Cloud, integrate AI workloads, and ensure seamless connectivity across multi‑cloud environments.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement secure CI/CD pipelines with automated security gates, policy enforcement and compliance checks.
• Architect, configure and manage GKE/Kubernetes clusters, including multi‑tenant namespaces and Workload Identity Federation.
• Provision GCP resources with Terraform, handling project‑per‑tenant setups and environment parity.
• Operationalize Vertex AI for long‑running batch jobs, covering scheduling, monitoring and failure recovery.
• Build and maintain cross‑cloud networking using Partner Interconnect, Identity‑Aware Proxy and firewall topology.
• Lead pre‑production security hardening and deploy API gateways (Cloud Endpoints, Apigee) with authentication, rate limiting and threat protection.
• Establish monitoring, alerting and cost‑optimization practices, ensuring reliability and FinOps accountability.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to define platform standards and reduce operational overhead.

Required profile

• 7+ years of professional DevOps or platform engineering experience, primarily on GCP.
• Proven hands‑on experience building secure CI/CD pipelines and managing production‑grade GKE environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, compliance and cost‑optimization.

Required skills

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) / Kubernetes
• Terraform
• Vertex AI
• CI/CD pipeline tools (e.g., Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
• Workload Identity Federation
• Partner Interconnect, Identity‑Aware Proxy (IAP)
• API gateways (Cloud Endpoints, Apigee)
• Monitoring & alerting (Stackdriver, Prometheus)
• FinOps / cost‑optimization practices
• AWS (for cross‑cloud networking)