GCP Cloud support engineer

Title- GCP Cloud support engineer
Location – Elk Grove, CA
Contract

Job Description:
At least 5+ years hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering, SRE, or as a GCP Cloud support engineer
Excellent Python, bash, and scripting fundamentals
Expertise with GCP cloud platform
Expertise with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Cloud Deployment Manager, Ansible, or Chef.
Experience in building systems where observability is a first class concern using protocols and tools that cover the space of log aggregation, analytics, monitoring, distributed systems tracing and alerting
Experience with containerization and cluster management technologies like Docker, Kubernetes and GKE.
Familiarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes
Experience in designing and managing a predictive alerting platform using monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud monitoring, Splunk,
Proficient at Linux system administration
Experience with modern web services architectures
Experience with Git
Experience with GKE & Kubernetes desired
Able to build tools from scratch when needed
Ability to quickly learn new and existing technologies
Strong problem solving skills

Experience in writing detailed solution specifications, diagrams, best practices/standards documentation, operating procedures, test plans/test reports, etc.
Excellent communication skills - must be capable of effectively engaging and leading interactions with cross functional technical and business teams and varying levels of management. Able to comfortably present to customers and stakeholders.

This role works cloud-based customers as well PaaS engineering teams to help meet customers cloud operational needs as well as assist with their migration to the cloud platforms. We are looking for someone who is comfortable with working with customers and has the experience to solving GCP technical issues. 

Troubleshooting, problems solving and automating solutions are daily routines. Familiarity with CI/CD Pipelines and being fluent with config as code through Cloud Deployment Manager, TerraForm/Palumi Config management is a must.