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Workster

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11 - 50 employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Workster is a recruitment platform focused on matching candidates with diverse job opportunities across various industries. With a commitment to boosting international careers, Workster partners with leading companies in sectors like technology, customer service, and business process outsourcing to help individuals find their next big career move. The platform emphasizes multilingual support and remote work options, catering to a global workforce.

📋 Description

• Operate and maintain production GCP environments, ensuring availability, performance and scalability for critical applications and services • Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, Deployment Manager or similar, enabling repeatable and auditable deployments • Build, maintain and optimise CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation using tools like Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitLab CI or equivalent • Design and implement monitoring, alerting and observability solutions using Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Prometheus, Grafana and related tooling • Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents; perform root cause analysis and drive corrective and preventive actions to improve system reliability • Manage networking, load balancing, VPN/Interconnect, VPCs, Cloud DNS and related GCP networking components • Configure and operate compute, storage and database services (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, BigQuery) following best practices for security and cost optimisation • Implement and maintain identity, access and security controls using Cloud IAM, Secrets Manager, KMS, and integrate with enterprise identity providers • Automate operational tasks and runbooks with scripting (Python, Bash, Go) and orchestration frameworks to reduce manual toil • Participate in on-call rotations and provide timely incident response and incident communications to stakeholders • Collaborate with developers, platform engineers and security teams to support continuous improvement, capacity planning and cost management • Produce and maintain high-quality operational documentation, runbooks, architecture diagrams and post-incident reports • Contribute to cloud migration, modernisation and platform standardisation programmes, helping to define operational standards and best practices

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience as a Cloud Operations or Site Reliability Engineer, with hands-on operational experience in Google Cloud Platform • Practical experience with GCP services including GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Cloud IAM and networking components • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred) and configuration management tools • Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, Go or similar) and experience automating operational tasks • Experience building and maintaining observability and monitoring (Cloud Monitoring, Logging, Prometheus, Grafana) and managing alerts and SLIs/SLOs • Familiarity with CI/CD practices and tools (Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Argo CD) and container orchestration (Kubernetes/GKE) • Good understanding of cloud networking, security controls, identity management and encryption best practices • Proven ability to troubleshoot production incidents, perform root cause analysis and implement long-term fixes • Strong communication and collaboration skills with experience working in cross-functional and international teams • Relevant certifications (e.g. Google Cloud Professional Cloud Engineer, Professional Cloud Security Engineer, or equivalent) are advantageous • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • Fluent English (C1 or above); knowledge of Bulgarian is advantageous but not required.

🏖️ Benefits

• Hybrid working model: 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home • Competitive remuneration package aligned with experience and market rates • Home office allowance • 25 days of paid annual leave • Additional private health insurance • Food vouchers • Public transportation card • Employee Assistance Program (Mental Health, Legal & Financial Counselling) • Optional parking space • Multisport card • Modern office in a Class A business building in Sofia • Comprehensive training, mentorship and career development support • Access to over 15,000 LinkedIn Learning courses to support professional development • Opportunity to work on international cloud transformation projects within a company that values diversity, inclusion, sustainability and mutual trust