Lead DevOps Engineer/ Cloud Solution Architect (Google Cloud Platform)

Lead DevOps Engineer / Cloud Solution Architect – Google Cloud Platform

Location: Raritan, NJ | Type: Full-Time | Experience: 12+ Years

Looking for a hands-on Cloud Solution Architect / Lead DevOps Engineer with deep Google Cloud Platform expertise to design, build, and support secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions.

Important: This is a hands-on technical leadership role—candidate must be capable of designing and personally implementing/troubleshooting solutions, not purely architecture/governance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead Google Cloud Platform cloud architecture, DevOps, and platform engineering initiatives.
• Design and implement Google Cloud Platform networking, IAM, security, landing zones, and infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Dataproc, and Dataform.
• Build CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub, GitOps, and Terraform.
• Develop automation using Python and Bash.
• Support Generative AI / Vertex AI / Gemini platforms.
• Implement monitoring, observability, disaster recovery, and reliability solutions.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and provide technical leadership/mentoring.
• Collaborate with Application, Data, Security, AI/ML, Architecture, and Operations teams.

Required Skills:
12+ years DevOps/Cloud/Platform Engineering, Google Cloud Platform, Terraform, Kubernetes/GKE, Jenkins, GitHub, Docker, Python, Bash, IAM, Shared VPC, Private Service Connect, CI/CD, Cloud Security, Networking, Observability.

Preferred: AWS, Vertex AI, Gemini, Azure, Google Cloud Platform Professional Cloud Architect certification, Kubernetes certifications.

Tekshapers is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.