Senior Site Reliability Engineer — Cloud Platform Lead

Altice USA; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Optimum is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable, and highly available platforms on Google Cloud Platform. This hands‑on engineering 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, along with a passion

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
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• Cloud Networking
• IAM
• Monitoring and Observability
• Infrastructure as Code
• Experience with NCC, Interconnect, Cloud VPN, Cloud Router, Shared VPC, and hybrid cloud networking.
• Proven experience supporting highly available production environments.
• Experience with SLOs, incident management, automation, and operational excellence.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Preferred Qualifications: Google Cloud Professional Cloud Network Engineer, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, CK A, GitOps, FinOps, AI/ML workloads, and hybrid cloud platforms.

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 and operational workflows through CI/CD pipelines.
• Define and manage SLOs, improve observability, and reduce operational 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

GCP

GKE

Kubernetes

Terraform

Cloud Networking

IAM

Observability

Infrastructure as Code

SRE

Python

Bash

CI/CD

Tools

GitOps

CI/CD Tools

Cloud Monitoring

Job description

Optimum is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable, and highly available platforms on Google Cloud Platform. This hands‑on engineering 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, along with a passion