Description:
How you'll role
As the Lead DevOps Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of enhancing reliability and scalability within Google's cloud environments. You will guide a team of Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) in implementing cutting-edge monitoring and automation practices, ensuring system uptime and performance. This role demands a blend of technical expertise, leadership prowess, and a commitment to continuous improvement, driving the business to new heights of operational excellence.
What you'll do
- Lead and mentor a team of SRE engineers, promoting knowledge sharing and growth
- Act as the technical authority on SRE practices for GCP, ensuring system reliability and uptime across environments
- Oversee team workload distribution and manage stakeholder expectations
- Champion and implement DevOps and SRE best practices with emphasis on automation and scalability
- Drive monitoring and observability initiatives, leveraging tools like Grafana, Prometheus, and Stackdriver
- Design, maintain, and optimise CI/CD pipelines using GCP-native tools and industry standards
- Troubleshoot complex production incidents, ensuring root cause analysis and long-term fixes
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent platform performance
- Apply Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using tools such as Terraform or Deployment Manager
- Foster a proactive and blameless incident management culture
Requirements:
- Lead and mentor a team of SRE engineers, promoting knowledge sharing and growth
- Act as the technical authority on SRE practices for GCP, ensuring system reliability and uptime across environments
- Oversee team workload distribution and manage stakeholder expectations
- Champion and implement DevOps and SRE best practices with emphasis on automation and scalability
- Drive monitoring and observability initiatives, leveraging tools like Grafana, Prometheus, and Stackdriver
- Design, maintain, and optimise CI/CD pipelines using GCP-native tools and industry standards
- Troubleshoot complex production incidents, ensuring root cause analysis and long-term fixes
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent platform performance
- Apply Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using tools such as Terraform or Deployment Manager
- Foster a proactive and blameless incident management culture
- Incident Management: 3 to 4 years
- Kubernetes: 3 to 4 years
- GCP Infrastructure: 3 to 4 years
- Degree or Diploma in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- Google Cloud certifications (e.g., Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, Professional Cloud Architect) are highly advantageous
- Minimum 3 years in a management/leadership capacity within SRE/DevOps teams
- Strong experience working on GCP infrastructure and services
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration at scale
- Familiarity with incident management, post-mortem processes, and production monitoring tools
- Hands-on experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Deployment Manager
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools
- UNIX/Linux administration expertise
- Familiarity with security, compliance, and cost optimisation on GCP
- GCP Heavy (Azure secondary)
- Okta
- Next.js for the frontend, or React otherwise
- Terraform
- Kubenetes - Helm
- Postgres Databases but mostly team dependent on DB - so must be comfortable with any
- Atlassian PM tooling
- FAST API for backends
What you'll need
- Degree or Diploma in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- Google Cloud certifications (e.g., Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, Professional Cloud Architect) are highly advantageous
- Minimum 3 years in a management/leadership capacity within SRE/DevOps teams
- Strong experience working on GCP infrastructure and services
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration at scale
- Familiarity with incident management, post-mortem processes, and production monitoring tools
- Hands-on experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Deployment Manager
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools
- UNIX/Linux administration expertise
- Familiarity with security, compliance, and cost optimisation on GCP
Additional skills
- GCP Heavy (Azure secondary)
- Okta
- Next.js for the frontend, or React otherwise
- Terraform
- Kubenetes - Helm
- Postgres Databases but mostly team dependent on DB - so must be comfortable with any
- Atlassian PM tooling
- FAST API for backends
13 Feb 2026;
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