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Senior GCP DevOps Engineer (onsite)

Applaudo Studios

You are a Senior DevOps Engineer with deep hands-on experience building secure, cloud-native platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and delivering infrastructure entirely through Terraform and GitLab CI/CD. You combine platform engineering, cloud security leadership, and multi-cloud connectivity across AWS, GCP, and legacy systems to turn infrastructure into a self-service product for development teams. You thrive in environments where immutability, automation, and continuous improvement are highly valued. You are a hands-on technical leader who enjoys mentoring others and transferring knowledge, helping the team reach zero manual deployments and 100% of its infrastructure as code.

About Applaudo Studios

At Applaudo, talented people design, build, and scale meaningful, AI-powered solutions that create real business impact.

As an AI-native organization, we collaborate across design, development, cloud, data, and artificial intelligence to turn ideas into scalable products that transform how companies operate, make decisions, and grow.

We are building a high-performance culture grounded in five values: Empowering Excellence, Collaborative Teamwork, Unsolicited Respect, Consistent Transparency, and Efficient Communication .

Joining us means being part of an organization that is evolving intentionally, investing in modern ways of working, and leading AI-native transformation at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Advanced experience building multi-environment GitLab CI/CD pipelines, including deployment orchestration and pipeline security.
  • Be Accountable for the Following Responsibilities: Define Golden Paths that enable self-service deployments for development teams.
  • Guarantee infrastructure immutability, ensuring no production changes happen outside of Terraform.
  • Build and evolve CI/CD workflows that move the team toward zero manual deployments.
  • Lead the security of the cloud ecosystem by integrating security controls into the delivery workflow.
  • Implement Binary Authorization and network policies to protect the cloud ecosystem.
  • Design secure multi-cloud and hybrid connectivity between AWS, GCP, and legacy systems.
  • Apply proactive FinOps practices through quotas and cost alerts.
  • Develop Kubernetes operators and controllers that automate complex tasks.
  • Transfer knowledge to the team through pair programming sessions.
  • Advanced experience with Terraform (complex reusable modules) and multi-environment GitLab CI/CD . Advanced experience with GCP cloud-native architecture , plus AWS and hybrid connectivity . Advanced experience with Binary Authorization, network policies, and Kubernetes operators and controllers . Working knowledge of FinOps practices.
  • These define how we work, how we support one another, and how we hold ourselves accountable.

Requirements

  • You Bring to Applaudo the Following Competencies: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field is desired, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 4+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, platform engineering, and cloud environments.
  • Advanced expertise designing complex, reusable Terraform modules and enforcing an immutable, everything-as-code infrastructure strategy.
  • Advanced knowledge of GCP cloud-native architecture as the primary platform.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS and hybrid connectivity across multi-cloud environments and legacy systems.
  • Advanced experience implementing Binary Authorization and network policies to secure cloud ecosystems.
  • Advanced experience developing Kubernetes operators and controllers to automate complex operational tasks.
  • Working knowledge of FinOps practices, including quotas and cost alerts for cloud billing control.
  • Proven technical leadership, mentoring, and knowledge transfer skills.
  • Strong teamwork and collaboration skills.
  • Working knowledge of English is required; Spanish will be the primary language of communication within the project.
  • Professional, GitLab Certified CI/CD, and Google Professional Cloud Architect certifications are desired.

Benefits

  • About Us We Are Engineered Different.
  • Applaudo is a place for people who want to learn fast, take ownership, and work alongside strong teams they are proud to belong to.

Note

This position is offered under a 3-month assignment (with the possibility of extension) and follows a hybrid model , with 3 to 4 days per week on-site and 1 to 2 days remote, Monday through Friday.