Senior GCP DevOps Engineer – Cloud Platform Lead

eir business talent; Donegal, Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

eir business talent is seeking a Senior GCP DevOps Engineer for a Dublin-based client to design, implement and operate secure cloud platforms on Google Cloud Platform.

You will lead CI/CD, GitOps, Terraform automation, large-scale GKE environments, SRE practices, incident management and governance, while mentoring engineers and aligning with banking, GDPR and enterprise security requirements. Hybrid Dublin.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years in enterprise cloud platform engineering, DevOps or SRE roles.
• Hands-on with GCP services: GKE, Cloud Build, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, IAM, Security.
• Expert Terraform experience with modules and remote-state governance.
• Strong Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and service-mesh (Istio) skills.
• CI/CD and GitOps using Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD or Argo CD.
• Python, Shell scripting, YAML and REST APIs proficiency.
• Experience with cloud monitoring and OpenTelemetry is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure, scalable GCP platforms with multi-region DR and HA.
• Lead cloud migration and modernisation, define platform standards and governance.
• Establish and govern CI/CD, GitOps, environment automation, and deployment strategies.
• Automate infra provisioning with Terraform, governance and policy as code.
• Design/manage large-scale GKE environments including security and perf standards.
• Implement SRE with SLIs/SLOs, monitoring, logging, alerting and observability.
• Lead incident and problem management and root-cause analysis for reliability.
• Embed DevSecOps controls, IAM, secrets management and vulnerability handling.
• Ensure alignment with banking, GDPR and enterprise security requirements.
• Mentor engineers, collaborate with architects, security, risk and operations teams.

Skills

GCP DevOps

GKE/Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD / GitOps

Python scripting

Security IAM

Incident management

Stakeholder mgmt

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Cloud Build

Kubernetes

Istio

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Job description

eir business talent is seeking a Senior GCP DevOps Engineer for a Dublin-based client to design, implement and operate secure cloud platforms on Google Cloud Platform.

You will lead CI/CD, GitOps, Terraform automation, large-scale GKE environments, SRE practices, incident management and governance, while mentoring engineers and aligning with banking, GDPR and enterprise security requirements. Hybrid Dublin.