Cloud Operations Engineer

APN Consulting, Inc.

13d • Remote

About The Position

APN Consulting, Inc. is a progressive IT staffing and services company offering innovative business solutions to improve client business outcomes. We focus on high impact technology solutions in ServiceNow, Fullstack, Cloud & Data, and AI / ML. Due to our globally expanding service offerings we are seeking top-talent to join our teams and grow with us.

Requirements

• Strong GCP (Multiple Services) / IaC / Terraform / GKE
• 6+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, cloud operations, or SRE
• 4 years hands-on on GCP.
• Strong understanding of GCP core services: Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, IAM, VPC, Load Balancing, Cloud Logging, and Cloud Monitoring.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform: HCL, reusable modules, variables, remote state, state locking, workspaces/environments, plan/apply lifecycle, drift handling, and code review.
• CI/CD experience using Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or equivalent.
• Good understanding of networking: VPC, subnetting, firewall rules, private connectivity, load balancers, DNS, NAT, VPN, Interconnect, Cloud Router, Shared VPC, and hub-spoke architecture.
• Scripting knowledge in Bash, Python, or Go.
• Good security basics: IAM least privilege, service accounts, secrets, KMS, audit logging, vulnerability awareness.
• Terraform HCL, modules, remote state, state locking, reusable templates, environment separation.
• Containerisation and Kubernetes basics: deployments, services, ingress, config maps, secrets, autoscaling, troubleshooting.
• Linux administration and basic scripting.
• GCP Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, IAM, VPC, Load Balancers, Cloud NAT, Cloud Router, Cloud DNS.
• CI/CD using Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
• Monitoring and logging using Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent.

Nice To Haves

• GKE Autopilot vs Standard decisioning.
• Anthos / GKE Enterprise exposure.
• Cloud Deploy, Artifact Registry.
• FinOps and cost optimisation.
• Policy as Code using OPA, Sentinel, or Terraform policy controls.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure design, provisioning, deployment, and troubleshooting.
• Production troubleshooting exposure: logs, metrics, alerts, incident response, performance, reliability, and cost optimisation.
• Ability to explain real-world implementation decisions, trade-offs, and failure scenarios.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed