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SynMax · 13 hours ago

Cloud Platform Engineer

Houston

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

SynMax is a pioneering data intelligence company specializing in maritime and energy intelligence. They are seeking a skilled Cloud Platform Engineer to manage and optimize their Google Cloud Platform environments, focusing on DevOps practices and ensuring the reliability and scalability of their cloud services.

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Responsibilities

Take ownership of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments supporting analytics platforms

Management, deployment, uptime, and scalability of core cloud services

Focus on DevOps practices, CI/CD automation, and ensuring reliability of platforms

Ensure platform meets or exceeds SLAs

Resolve incidents quickly and document with appropriate RCA and future runbooks

Implement additional automation to help scale and relieve manual effort

Utilize observability to detect incidents as early as possible

Conduct ongoing review of environments with stakeholders to identify cloud cost optimization opportunities

Qualification

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)DevOps methodologiesCI/CD pipelinesInfrastructure as codeKubernetesDockerMonitoring toolsScripting skillsTeam collaborationCommunication skills

Required

BS in CS or related STEM field

5+ years of experience in an Infrastructure, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering role with expertise in Google Cloud Platforms (GCP)

Proven experience with DevOps methodologies and building robust CI/CD pipelines

Experience with designing, managing, and deploying cloud infrastructure with a focus on ensuring scalability, security, resiliency, and high uptime

Experience with microservices, serverless/containerization and container orchestration such as Kubernetes, Docker, and Cloud Run

Strong experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK stack, DataDog, NewRelic, Splunk, or similar technologies

Experience with Infrastructure as code using Terraform

Familiarity with networking, security, and access management within a cloud environment (VPCs, subnets, firewalls, DNS, load balancers, full/partial VPNs)

Strong scripting skills (Bash, Go, python)

The ability to work effectively in a team environment with remotely located staff in different time zones, demonstrating strong communication and coordination skills

Preferred

Deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with hands-on experience managing and deploying services such as Google Compute Engine (GCE), Cloud Runs, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, and BigQuery

Experience with Github actions

Experience with managing cloud costs and FinOps optimization

experience with ISO27001

CMMC Level 2