DevOps Lead

Confero; New Jersey; On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Confero is seeking a Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to take full ownership of the GCP infrastructure, improve Terraform modules, and advance the GKE environment with RBAC, workload isolation and autoscaling.

You will strengthen CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Cloud Build, implement GitOps with ArgoCD, and enhance observability, disaster recovery, and security across IAM, networking and data services. Experience building multi-tenant SaaS infra is essential.

Qualifications

• Senior level DevOps/Platform experience with hands-on leadership.
• Deep GCP and GKE production expertise.
• Strong Terraform mastery including modules and state management.
• Proven Kubernetes and Docker production experience.
• Experience building infrastructure platforms from scratch.
• Ability to modernize legacy infra and reduce technical debt.
• Extensive CI/CD using GitHub Actions or Cloud Build.
• Experience supporting multi-tenant SaaS and tenant isolation.
• Solid cloud networking knowledge (VPCs, firewalls, DNS).
• Strong incident response, DR planning and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Take complete ownership of the GCP infrastructure from the current outsourced team.
• Assess and improve Terraform modules, state management and architecture.
• Mature the GKE environment across workload identity, RBAC, namespace isolation, deployment health and autoscaling.
• Introduce stronger deployment and GitOps practices using Helm and ArgoCD where appropriate.
• Build and improve CI/CD workflows across GitHub Actions, GCP Cloud Build and Artifact Registry.
• Strengthen multi-tenant isolation across Kubernetes workloads, cloud services and data infrastructure.
• Provision and operate Cloud SQL, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Pub/Sub and Memorystore.
• Design reliable message-driven infrastructure, including ordering, retries, dead-letter queues and workload prioritisation.
• Improve observability across metrics, logs, tracing, dashboards and alerting.
• Build multi-region resilience, automated failover, disaster recovery processes and incident runbooks.
• Provision and manage GPU infrastructure for production AI workloads, including node pools, scheduling, quotas and cost control.
• Build agentic capabilities to support infrastructure operations, deployment and troubleshooting.
• Improve cloud security across IAM, networking, Secret Manager, Cloud KMS and Cloud Armor.
• Establish cost visibility, budget controls and per-tenant infrastructure tracking.
• Help hire and shape the future internal DevOps and Platform Engineering team.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

Team Leadership

SRE Practices

Infrastructure as Code

Cost Control

Security

Networking

Incident Response

Observability

Troubleshooting

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GCP

GKE

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud Build

Artifact Registry

Cloud KMS

Cloud Armor

Job description

Take complete ownership of the GCP infrastructure from the current outsourced team.

Assess and improve the existing Terraform modules, state management and infrastructure architecture.

Mature the GKE environment across workload identity, RBAC, namespace isolation, deployment health and autoscaling.

Introduce stronger deployment and GitOps practices using tools such as Helm and ArgoCD where appropriate.

Build and improve CI/CD workflows across GitHub Actions, GCP Cloud Build and Artifact Registry.

Strengthen multi-tenant isolation across Kubernetes workloads, cloud services and data infrastructure.

Provision and operate Cloud SQL, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Pub/Sub and Memorystore. Design reliable message-driven infrastructure, including ordering, retries, dead-letter queues and workload prioritisation.

Improve observability across metrics, logs, tracing, dashboards and alerting.

Build multi-region resilience, automated failover, disaster recovery processes and incident runbooks.

Provision and manage GPU infrastructure for production AI and agent workloads, including node pools, scheduling, quotas and cost control.

Build agentic capabilities to support infrastructure operations, deployment and troubleshooting.

Improve cloud security across IAM, networking, Secret Manager, Cloud KMS and Cloud Armor.

Establish cost visibility, budget controls and per-tenant infrastructure tracking.

Help hire and shape the future internal DevOps and Platform Engineering team.

What we're looking for

• At least 10 years of experience across DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering or cloud infrastructure.
• At least five years operating at a senior, technical-lead or platform-ownership level.
• Deep, hands-on production experience with GCP and GKE.
• Strong Terraform experience, including modules, state management and infrastructure architecture.
• Strong production Kubernetes and Docker experience.
• Experience building or materially improving an infrastructure platform from scratch or from an early version-one environment.
• Experience inheriting existing infrastructure, identifying technical debt and leading its modernisation.
• Strong CI/CD experience using GitHub Actions, GCP Cloud Build or comparable tooling.
• Production experience operating GPU infrastructure, ideally across scheduling, node pools, drivers, quotas, autoscaling and cost.
• Experience supporting multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure and tenant isolation.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, including VPCs, firewalls, load balancers and DNS.
• Experience with observability, incident response, disaster recovery and production reliability.
• Comfortable remaining deeply hands-on while setting technical direction and preparing to build a team.