Cloud Operations Engineer

Cloud Operations Engineer

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.

Job Title: Cloud Operations Engineer

Location: Remote

Employment Type: Full-time

Experience: 6+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, cloud operations, or SRE, 4 years hands-on on GCP.

Job Description

• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure design, provisioning, deployment, and troubleshooting.
• 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.
• Production troubleshooting exposure: logs, metrics, alerts, incident response, performance, reliability, and cost optimisation.
• Scripting knowledge in Bash, Python, or Go.
• Good security basics: IAM least privilege, service accounts, secrets, KMS, audit logging, vulnerability awareness.
• Ability to explain real-world implementation decisions, trade-offs, and failure scenarios.

Generic Skills (Must Have)

• 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 Skills (Must Have)

• 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 Have (Trainable)

• 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.

We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where individuals from all backgrounds feel valued and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives. We strongly encourage applications from candidates of all genders, races, ethnicities, abilities, and experiences to join our team and help us build a culture of belonging.