Knooviq Industries PvtLtd

Job Title: L2 GCP Cloud Infrastructure & Operations Engineer

Experience: 3–6 Years

Location: Pune

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Overview

We are looking for an experienced L2 GCP Cloud Infrastructure & Operations Engineer with strong hands-on experience managing, monitoring, and troubleshooting Google Cloud Platform infrastructure in a production environment.

The ideal candidate should have practical experience in Compute Engine, Linux administration, GCP networking, incident management, and cloud infrastructure troubleshooting.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and troubleshoot GCP infrastructure, including Compute Engine VMs, disks, snapshots, and cloud resources.
• Perform Linux system administration, OS patching, security updates, and performance troubleshooting.
• Configure and troubleshoot GCP networking components, including VPCs, subnets, firewall rules, routes, Cloud NAT, VPN, DNS, and load balancing.
• Handle L2 production incidents, service requests, escalations, root-cause analysis (RCA), and SLA commitments.
• Monitor infrastructure using Google Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging; investigate alerts and resolve service issues.
• Administer IAM roles, service accounts, permissions, and infrastructure security controls.
• Support backup, restoration, disaster recovery, and high-availability operations.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and operational tasks using Terraform, Ansible, Bash, or Python.
• Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and incident reports.

Required Skills

• 3–6 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, cloud operations, or production support.
• Hands-on production experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong knowledge of Compute Engine, Linux administration, and infrastructure troubleshooting.
• Practical understanding of VPC networking, firewall rules, routing, NAT, VPN, and load balancing.
• Experience handling production incidents, troubleshooting, RCA, and SLA-driven support.
• Familiarity with Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, IAM, backup, and recovery procedures.
• Working knowledge of Terraform, scripting, or configuration management tools.

Preferred Skills

• Google Associate Cloud Engineer or Professional Cloud certifications.
• Experience supporting enterprise production environments.
• Exposure to Kubernetes/GKE, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.

Important Candidate Requirement

Candidates must have practical, hands-on experience resolving production infrastructure issues in GCP. Candidates whose experience is limited to theoretical knowledge, training, certifications, or application-level support without infrastructure troubleshooting experience may not be suitable.

Ideal Candidate Profile

A cloud operations or infrastructure support engineer who has personally managed GCP resources, investigated production incidents, troubleshot Linux and networking issues, and maintained service availability.