[Remote] Lead DevOps Engineer GCP - US Citizens Only /Remote

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Saransh Inc is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to manage and optimize staging and production deployment environments for Iron Mountain’s Digital Services. This role involves ensuring secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and collaborating closely with development and operations teams to deliver reliable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, manage, and maintain cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP, ensuring compliance for government workloads
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, OpenTofu, or AWS CloudFormation
• Collaborate with development teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab and OpenTofu for efficient infrastructure and application delivery
• Monitor system performance, participate in capacity planning, and optimize application and infrastructure performance by tuning configurations and identifying bottlenecks
• Develop scripts and tools to automate routine operations, including patching, scaling, and monitoring
• Design and implement self-healing systems that proactively detect and resolve faults
• Manage backup and disaster recovery strategies to ensure data integrity and availability across environments
• Perform regular security audits and vulnerability patching, adhering to government compliance requirements (e.g., FedRAMP, NIST)
• Respond to and resolve infrastructure incidents and outages in real-time, minimizing disruption
• Conduct RCA for production issues and implement long-term corrective actions
• Participate in an on-call rotation, escalating and coordinating responses to high-severity issues
• Document incidents, responses, and postmortems to capture lessons learned
• Diagnose complex infrastructure and application problems, including database performance issues, latency, and service connectivity challenges
• Ensure comprehensive logging and telemetry to support incident response, performance tuning, and auditing
• Drive observability improvements by collaborating with Engineering and Platform teams to enhance system reliability and traceability
• Lead resolution efforts for application-level incidents, ensuring coordinated response across teams
• Oversee application lifecycle management, including version upgrades, security patches, and regional rollouts
• Contribute to a shared knowledge base, documenting recurring issues and resolution steps
• Support scaling strategies to meet regional demand, ensuring infrastructure resilience and compliance with service-level objectives (SLOs)

Skills

• Must be eligible and willing to submit for U.S. Government security clearances; active clearance is a plus
• Minimum 5 years of experience leading and supporting enterprise-level applications in production environments
• Proven experience in cloud infrastructure provisioning and management on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation and systems management
• Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm
• Hands-on experience with cloud object storage services such as AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, or Azure Blob Storage
• Working knowledge of database and persistence technologies, particularly MongoDB and PostgreSQL
• Experience supporting and integrating microservices architectures and RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with incident and service management systems, such as ServiceNow and Jira
• Experience with SAST/DAST security and compliance tooling, such as Prisma Cloud, CrowdStrike, XSOAR, and Burp Suite
• Basic understanding of identity and access management (IAM) and SSO technologies, particularly Okta, and application integration practices
• Excellent troubleshooting skills, especially in complex, distributed, cloud-based environments
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly document procedures, incidents, and solutions
• Effective at producing support documentation and conducting knowledge transfer or training sessions
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision in a fast-paced, collaborative, and globally distributed team
• A motivated, proactive mindset with a commitment to delivering high-quality, secure, and reliable systems
• Experience supporting FedRAMP Authorized platforms is highly desirable

Company Overview

• We provide recruitment, consulting and IT services for our clients, which focus on maximizing their revenue generation, enhancing business productivity and improving cost management. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in Plainsboro, New Jersey, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://saranshinc.com.

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