Google Cloud Platform DevOps Engineer
Posted 3 days ago by 1765868307
Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The Lead DevOps Engineer will play a crucial role in managing and optimizing the staging and production infrastructure for Iron Mountain's Digital Services within the federal sector. This position involves working with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform, AWS, and Microsoft Azure to ensure compliance and performance. The engineer will also focus on automation, incident management, and application lifecycle management to enhance system reliability and efficiency. This role is fully remote and requires a proactive approach to problem-solving and collaboration with various teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deploy, manage, and maintain cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform, ensuring compliance for government workloads.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, OpenTofu, or AWS CloudFormation.
- Collaborate with development teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab and OpenTofu for efficient infrastructure and application delivery.
- Monitor system performance, participate in capacity planning, and optimize application and infrastructure performance by tuning configurations and identifying bottlenecks.
- Develop scripts and tools to automate routine operations, including patching, scaling, and monitoring.
- Design and implement self-healing systems that proactively detect and resolve faults.
- Manage backup and disaster recovery strategies to ensure data integrity and availability across environments.
- Perform regular security audits and vulnerability patching, adhering to government compliance requirements (e.g., FedRAMP, NIST).
- Respond to and resolve infrastructure incidents and outages in real-time, minimizing disruption.
- Conduct RCA for production issues and implement long-term corrective actions.
- Participate in an on-call rotation, escalating and coordinating responses to high-severity issues.
- Document incidents, responses, and postmortems to capture lessons learned.
- Diagnose complex infrastructure and application problems, including database performance issues, latency, and service connectivity challenges.
- Ensure comprehensive logging and telemetry to support incident response, performance tuning, and auditing.
- Drive observability improvements by collaborating with Engineering and Platform teams to enhance system reliability and traceability.
- Lead resolution efforts for application-level incidents, ensuring coordinated response across teams.
- Oversee application lifecycle management, including version upgrades, security patches, and regional rollouts.
- Contribute to a shared knowledge base, documenting recurring issues and resolution steps.
- Support scaling strategies to meet regional demand, ensuring infrastructure resilience and compliance with service-level objectives (SLOs).
Key Skills:
- Minimum 5 years of experience leading and supporting enterprise-level applications in production environments.
- Proven experience in cloud infrastructure provisioning and management on Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, or Microsoft Azure.
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation and systems management.
- Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
- Hands-on experience with cloud object storage services such as AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, or Azure Blob Storage.
- Working knowledge of database and persistence technologies, particularly MongoDB and PostgreSQL.
- Experience supporting and integrating microservices architectures and RESTful APIs.
- Familiarity with incident and service management systems, such as ServiceNow and Jira.
- Experience with SAST/DAST security and compliance tooling, such as Prisma Cloud, CrowdStrike, XSOAR, and Burp Suite.
- Basic understanding of identity and access management (IAM) and SSO technologies, particularly Okta, and application integration practices.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills, especially in complex, distributed, cloud-based environments.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly document procedures, incidents, and solutions.
- Effective at producing support documentation and conducting knowledge transfer or training sessions.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision in a fast-paced, collaborative, and globally distributed team.
- A motivated, proactive mindset with a commitment to delivering high-quality, secure, and reliable systems.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
100% Remote The Lead DevOps Engineer, a key member of the EIT DevOps Team, is responsible for the staging and production infrastructure of Iron Mountain s Digital Services within the federal sector. This role is pivotal in managing and optimizing staging and production deployment environments across Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure.
Core Responsibilities:
Incident Management & Observability:
Application & Knowledge Management:
Qualifications:
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