Senior DevOps & Platform Lead - GCP, Kubernetes, GitOps

Confero; New Jersey; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Confero is seeking a senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to own the GCP infrastructure, advance GKE and Terraform architectures, and drive platform ownership across a multi-tenant SaaS environment. You will shape CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Cloud Build, implement GitOps with Helm and ArgoCD, and ensure robust observability, security, and cost controls.

You will also lead modernization efforts, contribute to disaster recovery planning, and help build a high-performing internal DevOps and

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on production experience with GCP and GKE.
• Strong Terraform experience, including modules, state management and architecture.
• Strong production Kubernetes and Docker experience.
• Experience building or modernising an infrastructure platform from scratch or from an early version‑one environment.
• Experience supporting multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure and tenant isolation.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of the GCP infrastructure from the current outsourced team.
• Assess and improve 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 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 infra with retries and DLQ.

Skills

GCP

GKE

Terraform

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Observability

Disaster recovery

Platform ownership

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Cloud Build

Artifact Registry

Job description

Confero is seeking a senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to own the GCP infrastructure, advance GKE and Terraform architectures, and drive platform ownership across a multi-tenant SaaS environment. You will shape CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Cloud Build, implement GitOps with Helm and ArgoCD, and ensure robust observability, security, and cost controls.

You will also lead modernization efforts, contribute to disaster recovery planning, and help build a high-performing internal DevOps and