Senior DevOps Engineer (GCP & Terraform Mandatory)

Project Description:

• Join our Development Center in Bucharest, and become a member of our open-minded, progressive and professional team. In this role you will be working on projects for one our world famous clients.
• You will have a chance to grow your technical and soft skills, and build a thorough expertise of the industry of our client.
• On top of attractive salary and benefits package, Luxoft will invest into your professional training, and allow you to grow your professional career.

Responsibilities:

• • Architect, design, implement, and maintain highly scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• • Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices, leveraging Terraform extensively for resource provisioning and configuration management.
• • Lead the development, optimization, and standardization of robust CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Workflows, ensuring efficient, reliable, and secure software releases.
• • Collaborate closely with development teams to embed DevOps practices, promote a culture of continuous improvement, and ensure optimal application performance and stability.
• • Automate complex operational tasks and processes, reducing manual effort and improving overall system efficiency and reliability.
• • Develop and maintain advanced scripts and tools for infrastructure automation, monitoring, and deployment across the GCP ecosystem.
• • Implement and enforce stringent security best practices, ensuring compliance and data protection across all infrastructure components and deployment processes, including the use of GCP Secret Manager.
• • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior team members, fostering their growth and development.
• • Participate in on-call rotations and provide expert-level support for production systems, ensuring high availability and rapid issue resolution.(if requested)

Mandatory Skills Description:

• • Expert-level proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tools, specifically Terraform (a mandatory requirement).
• • Demonstrable expertise in cloud platforms, with significant hands-on experience and certifications in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Experience with AWS or Azure is a plus.
• • Extensive experience with enterprise Security Management solutions, including advanced usage of GCP Secret Manager and other GCP security services (e.g., Cloud IAM, Security Command Center).
• • Proven track record in defining, implementing, and optimizing complex CI/CD flows, with deep expertise in GitHub Workflows.
• • Strong experience with containerization technologies: Docker (creating optimized images, multi-stage builds) and Kubernetes (cluster administration, deployments, scaling, using Terraform modules for cluster creation/management).
• • Proficient in developing and maintaining Helm Charts (templates, hooks, packaging, release management).
• • Solid experience in delivering high-quality, maintainable code within enterprise-scale development environments, adhering to best practices and code review processes.
• • In-depth working knowledge of environment monitoring tools such as GCP Operations (formerly Stackdriver), New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, for proactive incident detection and performance optimization.
• • Strong expertise in software development processes, models, lifecycles, and methodologies (Agile/Scrum).
• • Hands-on experience with service-mesh technologies like Istio or similar products for traffic management, security, and observability.
• • Advanced software development and scripting skills in at least one relevant language (e.g., Python, Go, Java, Bash, JavaScript).
• • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

• • Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible or Chef is a plus.