Lead Site Reliability Engineer, GCP & Cloud Platforms

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

Job summary

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

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in GCP, cloud networking, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and incident management, with a passion for improving reliability

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 and GKE, Terraform, IAM, Monitoring, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with NCC, Interconnect, Cloud VPN, Cloud Router, Shared VPC, and hybrid cloud networking.
• Proven experience supporting highly available production environments and incident management.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.

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 via CI/CD pipelines.
• Define and manage SLOs, improve observability, and reduce toil through automation.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvement initiatives.
• Implement cloud security, IAM, governance, and operational best practices.
• Partner with application, network, and security teams to deliver reliable cloud-native platforms.
• Mentor engineers and help establish platform and SRE standards across the organization.

Skills

SRE

Platform Engineering

Cloud Infrastructure

DevOps

GCP

GKE

Terraform

IAM

Monitoring

IaC

Python

Tools

GKE

Cloud Run

Compute Engine

Cloud SQL

Pub/Sub

Cloud Storage

Cloud Monitoring

Job description

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

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in GCP, cloud networking, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and incident management, with a passion for improving reliability