MODULE LEAD - GCP SRE
happiestminds
Job Description
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to enable fast, safe, and automated software delivery.
- Manage and maintain Kubernetes clusters on GCP (GKE), including workload deployments, scaling, resource optimization, and cluster lifecycle management.
- Author and maintain Helm charts for packaging and deploying microservices across multiple environments (dev, staging, production).
- Implement and govern Kubernetes deployment strategies ? including rolling updates, blue/green deployments, and canary releases ? to minimize downtime and risk.
- Build and maintain Docker images; enforce container best practices including image hardening, layer optimization, and secure base images.
- Own cloud infrastructure automation on GCP using Terraform ? including writing reusable modules, managing remote state, and handling workspace-based environment separation.
- Configure and manage proxy infrastructure (forward/reverse proxies, load balancers, ingress controllers) and ensure correct network routing for internal and external traffic.
- Design and enforce networking policies within Kubernetes (Network Policies, service meshes) and across GCP VPCs.
- Instrument applications and infrastructure for observability using Dynatrace ? including APM, dashboards, anomaly detection, and alerting.
- Manage incident response processes: on-call rotations, runbooks, post-mortems, and continuous improvement to reduce MTTR.
- Collaborate with development teams to define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; enforce reliability standards across services.
- Maintain and contribute to Confluence wikis and Jira project boards for documentation, runbooks, sprint planning, and incident tracking.
- Evaluate and recommend tooling, platforms, and process improvements to increase engineering productivity and system resilience.
- Enforce security best practices across infrastructure including secrets management (Vault, GCP Secret Manager), RBAC, and compliance controls.