Cloud Engineer – GCP

About the role

Digital Gates is seeking a Cloud Engineer specialized in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to operate and optimise its cloud environment. You will ensure secure, reliable, and cost‑effective cloud operations across compute, storage, and networking services.

Key responsibilities

• Provision, scale and manage GCP resources, including compute, storage and project structures.
• Monitor workloads, manage capacity and drive cost optimisation and rightsising.
• Execute standard changes, patching and configuration management in line with cloud best practices and security policies.
• Troubleshoot cloud incidents, support root‑cause analysis and contribute to reliability improvements.
• Maintain cloud documentation, standards and configuration baselines.

Required profile

• Minimum 3 years of hands‑on GCP operations experience.
• Strong knowledge of GCP services, IAM, networking and cost management.
• GCP certification (Associate Cloud Engineer or Professional Cloud Architect/Engineer) preferred.
• Familiarity with infrastructure‑as‑code and automation tools such as Terraform is an advantage.

Required skills

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Cloud networking
• Cost management and optimisation
• Infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform)
• Cloud compute and storage services
• Monitoring and logging
• Patching and configuration management

What we offer

• Opportunity to join a high‑impact team managing mission‑critical database infrastructure.
• Work on enterprise‑scale challenges in performance engineering, disaster recovery and security compliance.
• Exposure to a diverse technology stack and continuous learning environment.