Senior GCP Engineer (m/w/d) (DevOps Engineer)
Are you passionate about Google Cloud, Kubernetes and building scalable cloud platforms ? Would you like to help build a next-generation Data Platform from the ground up while working with modern cloud-native technologies? We are looking for a Senior Platform Cloud Engineer / Tech Lead (m/f/d) to join a newly established Data Platform team. In this role, you will combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership , helping define the cloud strategy and architecture for a modern data platform running on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) . Working alongside Data Engineers, Software Engineers and Security teams, you will play a key role in building secure, scalable and automated cloud infrastructure that powers large-scale analytics and data-driven products.
Aufgaben
- Design, build and continuously improve a modern Data Platform on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) .
- Develop and maintain the GCP Landing Zone , including organisation structures, IAM, networking and governance. Build scalable cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / OpenTofu) .
- Design and optimise CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments and platform operations.
- Manage containerised workloads
- using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Docker and Cloud Run . Implement
- observability, monitoring and logging solutions to ensure platform
- reliability and performance. As Tech Lead , provide technical
- direction, mentor engineers and shape engineering standards without
- people management responsibilities.
Profil
- 5+ years of experience in Cloud Platform Engineering , DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering .
- Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) .
- Expertise in Terraform or OpenTofu and Infrastructure as Code. Experience with Docker , Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Cloud Run .
- Strong understanding of CI/CD , automation and cloud-native engineering practices.
- Experience with BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataflow or other modern data platform technologies is highly desirable. Knowledge of observability , monitoring and FinOps principles. Scripting experience with Python or Bash .
- Strong communication skills and an agile, collaborative mindset.
- Fluent English is required; German is beneficial but not essential.
Wir bieten
- Salary of up to €110,000 depending on experience
- The opportunity to build a brand-new Google Cloud Data Platform from the ground up
- 30 days' holiday
- 25 days of workation within the EU
- Flexible working hours and a modern hybrid working environment
- Exciting cloud-native technologies including GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform and Cloud Run
- Company pension scheme, bike leasing, Germany Ticket subsidy and attractive corporate discounts
- Regular Lunch & Learn sessions, language training and excellent professional development opportunities An international engineering team where English is the primary working language
