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Senior / Lead - Cloud Security & Reliability Engineer (GCP) at Searce Inc · Mumbai · 4 - 8 years · Profitable · Posted 30 Jun 2026

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Senior / Lead - Cloud Security & Reliability Engineer (GCP)

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Posted by Mohammed Rabidheen
4 - 8 yrs
Best in industry
Mumbai
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Terraform
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Senior Cloud Security & Reliability Engineer (GCP)

Searce Inc | Mumbai, Maharashtra | On-site | 4–7 Years

About Searce

Searce is a global, AI-native, engineering-led technology consultancy and a Premier Google Cloud Partner — recognized as the Google Cloud Workplace AI Transformation Partner of the Year, APAC (2026). With 20+ years of experience and 3,000+ clients across 10+ countries, we help businesses stay ahead of the cloud curve. The Role We're looking for a Senior Cloud Security & Reliability Engineer with deep GCP expertise to join our Mumbai MSP team. You'll own reliability, security, and optimization of enterprise client GCP environments — 24/7.


What You'll Do

Own Reliability — Lead 24x7 GCP cloud operations and incident management. Define and enforce SLOs.

Engineer the Blueprint — Build scalable, secure GCP architectures and maintain IaC modules and playbooks.

Automate Everything — Embed AI-driven automation and AIOps to eliminate toil and preempt incidents.

Drive FinOps — Own GCP cost optimization for clients with quantified impact.

Be the Expert — Represent deep GCP expertise in client conversations and documentation.

Mentor & Elevate — Coach junior engineers through code reviews and problem-solving.


What We're Looking For

Experience

4–7 years total with 4+ years on GCP cloud infrastructure Background in Cloud Managed Services / MSP environments

2+ years in a client-facing technical role


Technical Skills (Must-Have)

GCP: GKE, IAM, VPC, Cloud Monitoring, Stackdriver — in work experience

Kubernetes: GKE — demonstrated in production

IaC: Terraform — module-level, demonstrated in work experience Observability: Prometheus + Grafana minimum

Security: GCP IAM, VPC controls, Security Command Center

Scripting: Python


Nice to Have

GCP Professional Cloud Architect / Pro DevOps Engineer certification BFSI or enterprise domain experience Thanos, Vault, Istio, ArgoCD FinOps Foundation Certification


Why Searce?

🏆 Google Cloud Partner of the Year — APAC 2026

🌍 Enterprise clients across US, APAC, and India

🤖 AI-first, engineering-led culture

📈 Fast-growing MSP team with real career ownership

🤝 HAPPIER values — Humble, Adaptable, Positive, Passionate, Innovative, Excellence, Responsible

📧 Interested? Share your profile and let's connect.

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About Searce Inc

Founded :
2004
Type :
Services
Size :
1000-5000
Stage :
Profitable

About

What is ‘searce’


Searce means ‘a fine sieve’ & indicates ‘to refine, to analyze, to improve’. It signifies our way of working: To improve to the finest degree of excellence, ‘solving for better’ every time. Searcians are passionate improvers & solvers who love to question the status quo.

The primary purpose of all of us, at Searce, is driving intelligent, impactful & futuristic business outcomes using new-age technology. This purpose is driven passionately by HAPPIER people who aim to become better, everyday.

What we do

Searce is a modern tech consulting firm that empowers clients to futurify their businesses, leveraging Cloud, AI & Analytics.


  1. We are a category defining niche’ cloud-native technology consulting company, specializing in modernizing (improve, automate & transform) the full-scope of infra, app, process & work
  2. We partner with clients in their ‘beyond x’ journey to drive intelligent, impactful & futuristic business outcomes
  3. We are the most preferred tech partner of choice when it comes to ‘solving for better’ for the new-age tech startups & digital enterprises, leading disruption in their industries
  4. Our Service Offerings: We offer Advanced Cloud, Data & App Modernization, Cloud Consulting, Management & Improvement (DevOps, SysOps & Cloud Managed Services), Applied AI & Analytics services 
  5. As one of the top 5 niche’ full scope global partners for Google Cloud & a preferred partner for AWS, we are the most preferred ‘engineering-led’ tech company of choice when it comes to solving complex business problems.


Who we are


We are passionate improvers, solvers & futurists. Driven by our engineering excellence mindset, we care most about delivering intelligent, impactful & futuristic business outcomes. Searcians are motivated by continuous improvement & solving for better in everything we do.

At the core, a Searcian is self-driven to become better, everyday. In passionate pursuit of the finest degree of excellence we drive exceptional outcomes in everything we do.

We believe that trust is the most important value. We also believe that we need to ‘earn the trust’, everytime one engages with us. And earning trust for us is far more important than anything else. We aim to be the *most trusted* tech consulting partner for our clients.

We are HAPPIER at heart. Humble, Adaptable, Positive, Passionate, Innovative, Excellence focused, & Responsible. We live the HAPPIER Culture Code.

Being HAPPIER.



How we work


  1. Customers. Partners. Our aim is to build relationships with customers for life. And meaningfully improve the life of every customer.
  2. We do what we say. We say what we do. We are uncomfortably honest and transparent. Being genuine wins trust & makes people happier.
  3. Mistakes are encouraged. We make mistakes. Tons of those. Everyday. And we don’t mind apologizing to our juniors, peers or superiors. We are no ego-doers.
  4. Underpromise. Overdeliver. We work with a deep desire to go above and beyond in everything we do. Everytime.

So, If you are passionate about tech, future & what you read above (we really are!), apply here to experience the ‘Art of Possible’

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Shubham Vishwakarma

Full Stack Developer - Averlon
I had an amazing experience. It was a delight getting interviewed via Cutshort. The entire end to end process was amazing. I would like to mention Reshika, she was just amazing wrt guiding me through the process. Thank you team.
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