Overview
Senior GCP Cloud Engineer specializing in Generative AI solutions for banking clients. Hands-on building production infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform with a focus on security, compliance, and operational excellence.
Location: Rome, Latium, Italy (partial remote/onsite as applicable).
About The Project
Join Neurons Lab as a Senior GCP Cloud Engineer working on Generative AI solutions for banking clients. You will be hands-on building production infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform while contributing to architecture design with emphasis on security, compliance, and operational excellence.
Your Impact
- Build cloud infrastructure using Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker.
- Work across multiple banking GenAI projects, implementing architectures, creating reusable IaC patterns, and maintaining high security standards.
Duration & Reporting
Part-time long-term engagement with project-based allocations. Direct report to Head of Cloud.
Objective
Build and operate GenAI cloud infrastructure for banking clients on Google Cloud Platform.
- Engineering Excellence: Build production infrastructure using Terraform, deploy on Kubernetes/GKE, containerize with Docker, implement CI/CD pipelines.
- Architecture Support: Contribute to architecture design, create technical specifications, and provide engineering insights during solution design.
- Client Success: Implement secure, scalable, cost-effective solutions aligned with GCP best practices and financial regulations.
- Knowledge Transfer: Create reusable IaC patterns, comprehensive documentation, and operational runbooks.
KPIs
- Deploy infrastructure through IaC (Terraform) with zero manual configuration.
- Create at least 3 reusable IaC components or architectural patterns per quarter.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines for all projects with automated testing and deployment.
- Document architecture and implementation details for knowledge sharing.
- Maintain 95%+ uptime for production GenAI endpoints.
Areas of Responsibility
Cloud Engineering (70%)
- Build and maintain GCP infrastructure using Terraform; develop reusable modules for GenAI patterns.
- Deploy and manage applications on GKE; Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, container security.
- Containerize applications with Docker; multi-stage builds, optimization, security.
- Develop Python applications: FastAPI backends, GenAI integration (RAG, LLM apps, chat interfaces).
- Deploy GenAI model serving: Vertex AI endpoints, containerized models on GKE, vector databases.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines: Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, automated testing and deployment.
- Security & compliance: IAM, VPC Service Controls, encryption, banking regulations (PCI-DSS, GDPR, MAS TRM).
- Cost optimization: GPU/TPU workload optimization, spot VMs, auto-scaling, monitoring.
- Manage GPU resources, ML pipelines, model performance monitoring.
Architecture Support (30%)
- Contribute to GCP architecture design for GenAI solutions (RAG, LLM applications, ML platforms).
- Create technical specifications, provide cost estimates and feasibility input.
- Participate in technical presentations and demos.
- Stay current with GCP AI/ML services (Vertex AI, Gemini, etc.).
Skills & Knowledge
Certifications & Core Platform
- Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect (REQUIRED - active).
- Core GCP services: GCE, GKE, Cloud Run, Vertex AI, VPC, IAM, Cloud KMS, Secret Manager.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect (strong plus); multi-cloud experience valued.
Must-Have Technical Skills
- Terraform (expert); GCP infrastructure, reusable modules, best practices.
- Kubernetes/GKE (expert); deployment strategies, security, networking, Helm.
- Docker (expert); containerization, multi-stage builds, optimization.
- Python (advanced); OOP, async, FastAPI/Flask, GenAI libraries (LangChain, LlamaIndex).
- GenAI: LLMs, RAG, vector databases, prompt engineering, Vertex AI.
- GPU/TPU management; optimization for training/inference workloads.
- CI/CD pipelines: Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI.
- Linux/UNIX administration, networking fundamentals.
Strong Plus
- Banking/FSI experience with compliance (PCI-DSS, GDPR, MAS TRM).
- Multi-cloud architecture experience.
- Modern DevOps practices and monitoring tools.
Communication
- Advanced English (written and verbal).
- Client-facing presentations and demos.
- Technical documentation.
Experience
- 5+ years in cloud engineering, DevOps, or solution architecture roles.
- 2+ years hands-on with GCP (GCE, GKE, Vertex AI); AWS experience is a strong plus.
- 2+ years with Terraform for GCP – reusable modules, automation.
- 2+ years with Kubernetes (GKE preferred) and Docker in production.
- 2+ years Python programming – APIs (FastAPI/Flask), GenAI applications.
- GenAI/ML workloads (strong plus) – LLM apps, RAG systems, GPU/TPU compute.
- Banking/FSI experience (strong plus) – financial services clients, compliance, security.
Questions for Applicants
- GCP Certification: Confirm your Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect status (cert ID, issue date, expiration).
- GCP GenAI Experience: Describe a GenAI project on GCP; services used; architecture; challenges.
- Terraform & Kubernetes on GCP: Examples of Terraform + GKE patterns; module structure.
- Banking/FSI Experience: Describe projects, compliance requirements, and security controls.
- AWS Background: Level of AWS experience and any multi-cloud projects.
Seniority level
Employment type
Job function
- Engineering and Information Technology
- Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting
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