GCP DevOps Engineer: Cloud Modernization & CI/CD

RWS; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

RWS in the Foundational Platforms team is seeking a DevOps Engineer focused on Google Cloud Platform. You will modernise and operate infrastructure behind financial applications, migrate to GCP, and enable reliable software releases.

The role is hands-on with ownership across GKE, Cloud SQL and CI/CD pipelines using GitHub and Terraform Cloud. The candidate will collaborate with architecture, security and product teams to deliver scalable, secure platforms and maintain operational runbooks for

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on experience in a DevOps, Cloud or Platform Engineering role delivering production workloads on GCP.
• Experience migrating legacy or on-premises apps and infra to cloud environments with migration planning and service continuity.
• Strong experience with GKE, Kubernetes and Docker for deploying and operating containerised apps.
• Proven experience designing and building CI/CD pipelines integrated with GitHub, with automated tests and deployment automation.
• Solid knowledge of Terraform and Terraform Cloud to provision and manage cloud infra, including remote state and modules.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate reliable, secure and scalable GCP environments supporting business-critical apps.
• Plan and deliver migration of legacy applications and infrastructure to GCP with phased approach and minimal downtime.
• Deploy, configure and optimise containerised services on GKE.
• Implement and support Cloud SQL environments including migrations, backups and high availability.
• Design and build CI/CD pipelines with GitHub and Terraform Cloud for repeatable deployments.
• Build and manage infrastructure as code with Terraform across environments.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to modernise deployment approaches for legacy and modern apps, including .NET workloads.
• Embed observability, logging, metrics and incident response to improve reliability.
• Apply cloud security and governance standards including IAM, networking and secrets management.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to deliver shared platform improvements and maintain runbooks.

Skills

GCP

GKE

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud SQL

GitHub CI/CD

Terraform

Terraform Cloud

IAM

Networking

Security

Observability

Scripting

Python

Bash

PowerShell

NET

Tools

GitHub

Terraform Cloud

GKE

Cloud SQL

Job description

RWS in the Foundational Platforms team is seeking a DevOps Engineer focused on Google Cloud Platform. You will modernise and operate infrastructure behind financial applications, migrate to GCP, and enable reliable software releases.

The role is hands-on with ownership across GKE, Cloud SQL and CI/CD pipelines using GitHub and Terraform Cloud. The candidate will collaborate with architecture, security and product teams to deliver scalable, secure platforms and maintain operational runbooks for