Cloud Devops - Associate Manager @ Iris Software

The Cloud DevOps Lead is responsible for establishing and evolving GCP-native DevOps culture and engineering practices across the organization. You will lead a team of DevOps engineers, define CI/CD standards using GCP-native tooling, architect automation frameworks on GCP, and embed security into the software delivery lifecycle accelerating delivery velocity while maintaining system reliability and compliance on Google Cloud Platform.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Define and drive the DevOps strategy and CI/CD pipeline standards using GCP-native tools (Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, Artifact Registry)
• Lead a team of DevOps engineers, providing technical mentorship and career development
• Lead Kubernetes-based deployment workflows on GKE using Helm, ArgoCD, or Cloud Deploy
• Establish GitOps practices for GCP configuration and infrastructure management
• Integrate GCP-native security scanning, Binary Authorization, and compliance gates into pipelines (DevSecOps)
• Implement and maintain observability stacks using Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and Cloud Trace
• Drive SRE principles including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and incident management on GCP
• Collaborate with Dev, QA, and Infra teams to enable continuous delivery at scale on GCP
• Manage GCP Artifact Registry, Secret Manager, and release versioning strategies
• Champion automation of operational tasks using GCP-native automation and self-service infrastructure
• Lead post-mortem reviews and drive continuous improvement in deployment reliability
• Support hybrid workload pipelines delivering to both GCP and on-prem environments

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS SKILLS (GCP MANDATORY)

• 10+ years of experience with 5+ years in a DevOps lead or senior role
• Hands-on expertise with GCP DevOps tooling: Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, Artifact Registry, Cloud Source Repositories and GitHub Actions mandatory
• Strong GKE experience including cluster operations, Workload Identity, and automated deployments
• Proficiency in Terraform for GCP infrastructure automation
• Experience with GitOps tools: ArgoCD, Flux, or GCP Cloud Deploy
• Solid scripting skills in Python and/or Bash
• Experience with GCP monitoring: Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and Cloud Trace
• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices: Binary Authorization, Container Analysis, Artifact Registry security
• Experience with hybrid CI/CD pipelines integrating GCP with on-prem environments

PREFERRED / NICE-TO-HAVE (AWS / AZURE CONSIDERED)

• Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer certification (strongly preferred)
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or CKAD
• Experience with Jenkins as complementary CI tools (nice to have)
• AWS DevOps or Azure DevOps experience (nice to have)