DevOps Engineer

GCS Recruitment; King of Prussia (PA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment is seeking a seasoned professional for a DevOps position in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. The role includes designing and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructure across GCP and AWS, leading Kubernetes operations, and enhancing CI/CD pipelines. Candidates should have 7-10+ years of significant experience in DevOps along with a strong technical foundation in cloud services and automation tools.

The ideal candidate will champion continuous improvement and help bridge development and operations effectively while advocating for process automation.

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure.
• Strong hands-on experience with GCP, GKE, Cloud SQL, Firestore, IAM, and service accounts.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and improve scalable cloud infrastructure across GCP and AWS.
• Lead Kubernetes workload design, cluster upgrades, scaling, and reliability improvements.
• Manage IAM permissions, service accounts, SSL certificates, secrets, and security controls.

Skills

DevOps experience

GCP & AWS expertise

Kubernetes knowledge

CI/CD experience

Scripting skills

Monitoring and observability

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Jenkins

RabbitMQ

Job description

Job Description

Skills and Experience

• 7-10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure
• Strong hands‑on experience with GCP, GKE, Cloud SQL, Firestore, IAM, and service accounts
• Experience with AWS services such as S3, EC2, CloudFront, Route53, and IAM
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and Terraform
• Experience with Kubernetes control planes, autoscaling, readiness/liveness probes, cluster upgrades, and workload reliability
• CI/CD expertise using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, and Git-based release workflows
• Experience with RabbitMQ or similar message queue technologies
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Bash, Python, and YAML
• Experience with secrets management, Workload Identity Federation, RBAC, and secure deployment practices
• Strong understanding of networking, load balancing, DNS, CDN, SSL/TLS, and production change management
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, observability, SLOs/SLIs, incident response, RCA, and postmortems
• Strong operational mindset with the ability to use metrics to improve reliability, deployment quality, and platform performance

Typical Tasks and Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and improve scalable cloud infrastructure across GCP and AWS
• Build and evolve Terraform, Helm, and automation frameworks
• Lead Kubernetes workload design, cluster upgrades, scaling, and reliability improvements
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Cloud Build
• Support RabbitMQ-based and event-driven microservice infrastructure
• Improve monitoring, alerting, anomaly detection, dashboards, and SLO/SLI tracking
• Troubleshoot complex cloud, networking, Kubernetes, deployment, and infrastructure issues
• Manage IAM permissions, service accounts, SSL certificates, secrets, and security controls
• Lead production deployment planning, rollback strategies, and release readiness activities
• Participate in incident response, RCA, and postmortem follow‑ups
• Drive DevSecOps practices, compliance readiness, vulnerability remediation, and infrastructure governance
• Define and evolve DevOps standards, deployment practices, and operational best practices
• Mentor DevOps Engineers 1-3 and provide technical guidance through design reviews and knowledge sharing
• Partner with engineering, QA, video, security, product, and infrastructure teams on planning and execution

Responsibilities

• Championing the optimization of the development process to effectively bridge the gap between software development, engineering, and management
• Driving the pursuit of continuous improvement with robust continuous integration, development, and deployment pipelines
• Advocating for and overseeing the automation of processes to accelerate the software development process
• Facilitating effective communication and collaboration between development and operations teams for rapid product development
• Monitoring application performance to anticipate and correct operational issues
• Creating and maintaining stable, deployable, and scalable operating environments by continuously improving infrastructure
• Commanding advanced knowledge of development processes and programming languages
• Ensuring adherence to industry standards and best practices for security and compliance throughout the development and operations lifecycle
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance; must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.