How you'll role

As the Lead DevOps Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of enhancing reliability and scalability within Google's cloud environments. You will guide a team of Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) in implementing cutting-edge monitoring and automation practices, ensuring system uptime and performance. This role demands a blend of technical expertise, leadership prowess, and a commitment to continuous improvement, driving the business to new heights of operational excellence.

What you'll do

• Lead and mentor a team of SRE engineers, promoting knowledge sharing and growth

• Act as the technical authority on SRE practices for GCP, ensuring system reliability and uptime across environments

• Oversee team workload distribution and manage stakeholder expectations

• Champion and implement DevOps and SRE best practices with emphasis on automation and scalability

• Drive monitoring and observability initiatives, leveraging tools like Grafana, Prometheus, and Stackdriver

• Design, maintain, and optimise CI/CD pipelines using GCP-native tools and industry standards

• Troubleshoot complex production incidents, ensuring root cause analysis and long-term fixes

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure consistent platform performance

• Apply Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using tools such as Terraform or Deployment Manager

• Foster a proactive and blameless incident management culture