Lead GCP SRE & Platform Reliability

Altice USA; Bethpage (NY); On-site; USD 134,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Optimum is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This hands-on role blends cloud infrastructure, networking, automation, Kubernetes, and reliability engineering to support critical enterprise applications.

The ideal candidate brings deep GCP and cloud networking expertise with IaC, observability, incident management, and a passion for reliability through automation and platform engineering.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in SRE, Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, or Network Engineering.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience operating production workloads on Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong expertise in GCP & GKE, Kubernetes, Terraform, Cloud Networking, IAM, Monitoring/Observability, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with NCC/Interconnect/Cloud VPN/Cloud Router/Shared VPC/hybrid cloud networking.
• Proven in incident management, SLOs, automation, and reliability improvement.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate enterprise-scale GCP infrastructure and platforms.
• Build and manage solutions using GKE, Cloud Run, Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Monitoring.
• Architect and support cloud networking including NCC, Interconnect, Cloud VPN, Cloud Router, Shared VPC, and Private Service Connect.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and automate deployment/ops via CI/CD pipelines.
• Define/manage SLOs and improve observability; lead incident response and RCA initiatives.
• Implement cloud security, IAM, governance, and operational best practices.

Skills

GCP

GKE

Kubernetes

Terraform

Cloud Networking

IAM

Monitoring

Observability

Python

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

IaC tooling

Job description

Optimum is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This hands-on role blends cloud infrastructure, networking, automation, Kubernetes, and reliability engineering to support critical enterprise applications.

The ideal candidate brings deep GCP and cloud networking expertise with IaC, observability, incident management, and a passion for reliability through automation and platform engineering.