DevOps Specialist

GCP DevOps Engineer – Job Description (2+ Years Experience)

We are looking for a motivated and skilled GCP DevOps Engineer with 2+ years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and deployment processes on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The ideal candidate should have experience in cloud operations, monitoring, containerization, and DevOps best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application deployment.
• Manage and monitor cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Work with development and QA teams to automate build, deployment, and release processes.
• Handle infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
• Manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes (GKE).
• Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure high availability.
• Implement security best practices, backup strategies, and access management.
• Support production deployments and resolve environment-related issues.
• Maintain documentation for infrastructure, deployment, and operational procedures.

Required Skills

• 2+ years of experience in DevOps or Cloud Engineering.
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Cloud Build.
• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes (GKE).
• Experience with Terraform or other IaC tools.
• Strong understanding of Linux administration and shell scripting.
• Experience with version control tools like Git.
• Knowledge of monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Cloud Monitoring.
• Understanding of networking, security, and cloud architecture concepts.

Good to Have

• Experience with Ansible or other configuration management tools.
• Knowledge of Python, Bash, or scripting languages.
• GCP Certifications are an added advantage.
• Exposure to Agile/Scrum environments.

Springer Capital is a cross-border asset management firm focused on real estate investment banking in China and the USA. We are offering a remote internship for individuals passionate about automation, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines. Start and end dates are flexible, and applicants may be asked to complete a short technical quiz or assignment as part of the application process. 

Responsibilities: 

▪ Assist in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to automate development workflows 

▪ Monitor and improve system performance, reliability, and scalability 

▪ Manage cloud-based infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP) 

▪ Support containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes 

▪ Implement infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation 

▪ Collaborate with software engineering and data teams to streamline deployments 

▪ Troubleshoot system and deployment issues across development and production environments 

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for backend, frontend, and mobile applications.
• Manage cloud infrastructure using AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, VPC, RDS, CloudWatch, ECS/EKS).
• Configure and maintain Docker containers and/or Kubernetes clusters.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform / CloudFormation.
• Automate build, deployment, and monitoring processes.
• Manage code repositories using Git/GitHub/GitLab, enforce branching strategies.
• Implement monitoring and alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK, Splunk.
• Ensure system scalability, reliability, and security.
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve deployment and development workflows.
• Optimize infrastructure costs and improve performance.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of AWS cloud services.
• Experience with Docker, containers, and orchestrators (ECS, EKS, Kubernetes).
• Strong understanding of CI/CD tools: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Experience with Linux administration and shell scripting.
• Strong understanding of Networking, VPC, DNS, Load Balancers, Security Groups.
• Experience with monitoring/logging tools: CloudWatch, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation (IaC).
• Good understanding of Node.js or similar application deployments.
• Knowledge of NGINX/Apache and load balancing concepts.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Preferred/Good to Have

• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS).
• Experience with Serverless architectures (Lambda).
• Experience with Redis, MongoDB, RDS.
• Certification in AWS Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer.
• Experience with security best practices, IAM policies, and DevSecOps.
• Understanding of cost optimization and cloud cost management.

• Public clouds, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
• Automation technologies, such as Kubernetes or Jenkins
• Configuration management tools, such as Puppet or Chef
• Scripting languages, such as Python or Ruby

• Work towards improving the following 4 verticals - scalability, availability, security, and cost, for company's workflows and products.
• Help in provisioning, managing, optimizing cloud infrastructure in AWS (IAM, EC2, RDS, CloudFront, S3, ECS, Lambda, ELK etc.)
• Work with the development teams to design scalable, robust systems using cloud architecture for both 0-to-1 and 1-to-100 products.
• Drive technical initiatives and architectural service improvements.
• Be able to predict problems and implement solutions that detect and prevent outages.
• Mentor/manage a team of engineers.
• Design solutions with failure scenarios in mind to ensure reliability.
• Document rigorously to keep track of all changes/upgrades to the infrastructure and as well share knowledge with the rest of the team
• Identify vulnerabilities during development with actionable information to empower developers to remediate vulnerabilities
• Automate the build and testing processes to consistently integrate code
• Manage changes to documents, software, images, large web sites, and other collections of code, configuration, and metadata among disparate teams

- You will manage all elements of the post-sale program relationship with your customers, starting with customer on-boarding and continuing throughout the customer relationship. 

- As the primary customer interface, you engage with customer teams to educate, identify needs, develop designs, set goals, manage and execute on plans that unlock continuous, incremental value from their investments in the CloudPassage Halo platform.

- You are hands-on during execution and thoroughly enjoy seeing your security projects come to life and supporting them afterwards. You are a trusted adviser.

Responsibilities :

- Manage a portfolio of 5+ Enterprise customer accounts with complex needs (typical enterprise customers invest between $500k and $4m+ per year with CloudPassage, have hundreds to tens of thousands of individual public cloud infrastructure deployments, and protect hundreds of thousands of cloud infrastructure assets with Halo).

- Provide level-3 technical support on your customer's most complex issues

- Lead implementation of low-level security controls in Cloud environments, for services, server and containers

- Remotely diagnose & resolve DevSecOps issues in customer environments - able to resolve their DevOps issues that may be interfering with CloudPassage processing.

- Interact with CloudPassage Engineering team by providing customer issue reproduction and data capture, technical diagnostics and validating fixes. QA experience preferred.

- Establish and program manage proactive, value-driven, high-touch relationships with your customers to understand, document and align customer strategies, business objectives, designs, processes and projects with Halo platform capabilities and broader CloudPassage services.

- Develop a trusted advisor relationship by building and maintaining appropriate relationships at all levels with your customer accounts, creating a premium and high-caliber experience.

- Ensure continued satisfaction, identify & confirm unaddressed customer needs that can be value-add opportunities for up-sell and cross-sell, and communicate those needs to the CloudPassage sales team. Identify any early CSAT issues and renewal risks and work with the internal team to remediate and ensure strong CSAT and a successful renewal.

- Be a strong customer advocate within CloudPassage and identify and support areas for improvement in the customer experience, both in our product and processes.

- Be team-oriented, but with a bias towards action to get things done for your customers.

Requirements : Strong cloud security knowledge & experience including :

- End-to-end enterprise security processes

- Cloud security - cloud migrations & shift in security requirements, tooling & approach

- Hands-on DevOps, DevSecOps architecture & automation (critical)

- 4+ years experience in security consulting and project/program management serving cybersecurity customers.

- Complex, level 3 technical support

- Remotely diagnosing & resolving DevSecOps issues in customer environments

- Interacting with CloudPassage Engineering team with customer issue reproduction

- Experience working in a security SaaS company in a startup environment.
 
- Experience working with Executive and C-Level teams.

- Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external constituents.

- Excellent organization, project management, time management, and communication skills.

- Understand and document customer requirements, map to product, track & report metrics, identify up-sell and cross-sell opportunities.
 
- Analytical both quantitatively and qualitatively.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
 
- Security certifications (Security +, CISSP, etc.).

Expert Technical Skills :

- Consulting and project management : documenting project charters, project plans, executing delivery management, status reporting. Executive-level presentation skills.

- Security best practices expertise : software vulnerabilities, configuration management, intrusion detection, file integrity.

- System administration (including Linux and Windows) of cloud environments : AWS, Azure, GCP; strong networking/proxy skills.

Proficient Technical Skills :

- Configuration/Orchestration (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, CloudFormation, Terraform).

- CI/CD processes and environments.

Familiar Technical Skills & Knowledge : Python scripting & REST API's, Docker containers, Zendesk & JIRA.

We are looking for a System Engineer who can manage requirements and data management in Rational Doors and Siemens Polarion. You will be part of a global development team with resources in China, Sweden and the US.

Responsibilities and tasks

1. Import of requirement specifications to DOORS module
   1. Create module structure according to written specification (e-mail, word, etc)
   2. Format: reqif, word, excel, pdf, csv
   3. Make adjustments to data required to be able to import to tool
   4. Review that the result is readable and possible to work with
2. Import of information to new or existing modules in DOORS
   1. Feedback of Compliance status from an excel compliance matrix to a module in DOORS
   2. Import requirements from one module to another based on baseline/filter…
   3. Import lists of items: Test cases, documents, etc in excel or csv to a module
   4. Provide guidance on format to information holder at client
3. Link information/attribute data from one module to others
   1. Status, test results, comment
   2. Link requirements according to information from the client in any given format
4. Export data and reports
   1. Assemble report based on data from one or several modules according to filters/baseline/written requests in any given format
   2. Export statistics from data in DOORS modules
5. Create filters in DOORS modules

Note: Polarion activities same as DOORS activities, but process, results and structure may vary

Requirements – Must list (short, and real must, no order)

• =>10 years of overall experience in Automotive Industry
• Having requirement management experience in the automotive industry.
• =>3 years of experience in Rational Doors as user
• Knowledge in Siemens Polarion, working knowledge is a plus
• Experience in offshore delivery for more than 7 years
• Able to lead a team of 3 to 5 people and manage temporary additions to team
• Having working knowledge in ASPICE and handling requirements according to ASPICE L2
• Experience in setting up offshore delivery that best fits the expectations of the customer
• Experience in setting up quality processes and ways of working
• Experience in metrics management – propose, capture and share metrics with internal/ external stakeholders
• Good Communication skills in English

Requirements - Good to have list, strictly sorted in falling priority order

• Experience in DevOps framework of delivery
• Interest in learning new languages
• Handling requirements according to ASPICE L3
• Willingness in travel, travel to Sweden may be needed (approx. 1-2 per year)

Soft skills

• Candidate must be driving and proactive person, able to work with minimum supervision and will be asked to give example situations incoming interviews.
• Good team player with attention to detail, self-disciplined, able to manage their own time and workload, proactive and motivated.
• Strong sense of responsibility and commitment, innovative thinking.