Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer - GCP

GoMining; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote/Hybrid work

Flexible hours across international 팀

Paid time off

Team retreats

Job summary

GoMining is seeking a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer to design and operate its cloud platform. The role focuses on GCP and Kubernetes, infrastructure delivery automation, and reliability and security of production services.

You will build and maintain infrastructure, improve the platform, and help product teams ship changes safely and efficiently.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of GCP services and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on with Terraform and CI/CD automation.
• Experience with GitOps workflows and related tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate GCP-based infrastructure using GKE and related services.
• Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform; ensure reproducible changes.
• Operate Kubernetes clusters, configure autoscaling and networking.
• Build CI/CD pipelines and GitOps processes (GitLab CI, Flux/Argo CD).
• Establish SLIs/SLOs, observability, and incident response practices.
• Ensure least-privilege access, secrets management, and security controls.
• Maintain backups, DR procedures, and cost optimization.

Skills

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

GitOps

Linux

Networking

Python/Bash

Tools

GKE

Argo CD

Flux

Helm

Kustomize

Job description

We are looking for aSenior DevOps / Platform Engineerto develop and operate GoMining's cloud platform.

The primary focus of this role isGCP and Kubernetes, infrastructure and application delivery automation, and the reliability and security of production services.

You will maintain and improve our existing infrastructure, contribute to the development of the next generation of our platform, and help product teams ship changes safely and efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate infrastructure inGCP, including GKE, virtual machines, networking, load balancers, storage, and managed services.
• Manage Infrastructure as Code withTerraform: develop modules, manage state and dependencies, ensure reproducible changes, and identify configuration drift.
• OperateKubernetes: upgrade clusters and platform components, configure autoscaling, workload placement, network policies, and resource allocation.
• DevelopCI/CD and GitOpsusing GitLab CI and Flux / Argo CD, automating builds, checks, deployments, controlled releases, and rollbacks.
• Build observability across metrics, logs, distributed tracing, and actionable alerting. Define and improveSLIs/SLOstogether with engineering teams.
• Troubleshoot production incidents and performance issues, conduct root cause analysis, and eliminate recurring failure patterns.
• Implement least-privilege access, environment and service isolation, secure secrets management and rotation, and infrastructure audit controls.
• Maintain backup processes and regularly validate recovery of critical data and infrastructure according to agreedRPO/RTO.
• Help engineering teams prepare services for production, including health checks, resource configuration, telemetry, and deployment procedures.
• Optimize cloud infrastructure usage and costs while maintaining reliability requirements.
• Maintain infrastructure documentation, operational runbooks, and recovery procedures.

• Strong hands-on experience independently operatingproduction infrastructure and Kubernetes, including upgrades, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery.
• Strong experience withGCP, including GKE, Compute Engine, VPC, IAM, and Cloud Storage; good understanding of Cloud SQL, Cloud Logging, and Cloud Monitoring.
• Hands-on experience withTerraform, including modules, remote state, locking, importing existing resources, and safely applying infrastructure changes through CI.
• Deep knowledge ofKubernetes and containerization: Deployments, StatefulSets, Services, Ingress, storage, requests/limits, probes, autoscaling, RBAC, and NetworkPolicy.
• Experience withHelm and Kustomize.
• Strong Linux administration skills, preferably Debian/Ubuntu: processes, systemd, filesystems, disks, and resource troubleshooting.
• Strong networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP(S), TLS, routing, NAT, load balancing, and firewalls.
• Ability to troubleshoot connectivity issues across applications, Kubernetes clusters, networks, and cloud services.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines, preferably withGitLab CI, and strong understanding of Git and GitOps principles.
• Understanding of runner permissions, secrets protection, and production deployment controls.
• Automation skills withBash and Python, including maintainable infrastructure scripts and API integrations.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools such asPrometheus, Grafana, or Cloud Monitoring.
• Practical experience operatingPostgreSQLand understanding Redis and RabbitMQ, including availability, connections, replication or clustering, backup, and recovery.
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles: least privilege, service accounts, Workload Identity, secrets management, network segmentation, and access auditing.
• Ability to independently deliver infrastructure changes to a validated production result, explain technical trade-offs, and collaborate effectively with Engineering and Security teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience withFlux CD, Argo CD, Ansible, and HashiCorp Vault.
• Experience withOpenTelemetryand distributed tracing.
• Experience migrating infrastructure between clouds or Kubernetes clusters, including database migrations with limited downtime.
• Experience designing disaster recovery strategies and conducting recovery exercises.
• Cloud cost optimization and capacity planning experience.
• Experience withDigitalOcean, Hetzner, or AWS.
• Ability to read and troubleshoot JavaScript / TypeScript applications.
• Experience operating financial or payment services with strict requirements around access control, auditing, reliability, and data integrity.

• Professional growth: support for courses, conferences, and English learning (up to 100% coverage).
• Work-life fit: remote or hybrid format with flexible hours across international teams.
• Paid leave: up to 20 vacation days + 8 company holidays + 5 personal days per year
• Recognition programs: structured performance reviews and team awards.
• Team culture: retreats in international locations (for example, company apartments in Cyprus).