Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - GP

Remote, Colombia / Remote, Costa Rica
Practice – DevOps /
Full-Time/Salary /
Remote
Gorilla Logic is a leading digital product engineering firm with strong teams in the United States, Colombia, and Costa Rica. We specialize in delivering innovative digital platforms and products that empower our clients to transform their businesses and achieve their strategic goals. Our core services include Cloud Engineering, Digital Product Development, Data & AI, and Delivery Transformation.
As the Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you will lead the advancement of our sophisticated Terraform infrastructure on GCP, driving key initiatives that focus on the scalability, maintainability, and robustness of our network architecture. This critical role will position you at the forefront of enhancing CI/CD pipelines, refining state management, and developing custom solutions that align with our complex and dynamic cloud environment. Your expertise will be pivotal in ensuring the resilience, security, and efficiency of our cloud infrastructure as we continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible in cloud engineering.

Responsibilities
* Enhance and manage a mature Terraform infrastructure for a vast and complex network architecture on GCP, focusing on scalability, maintainability, readability, and reusability.
* Develop and manage deployment strategies for building and promoting infrastructure changes across development, integration, and production environments
* Refine Terraform state management to mitigate issues related to environment infrastructure implementation, blocking states within larger teams, and Terraform code promotion impacts.
* Upgrade CI/CD pipelines for network infrastructure deployment to GCP across various environments, aiming to improve time-to-market and implement testing and automation enhancements.
* Enhance test isolation for Terraform changes specifically related to network configurations to ensure stability and reliability.
* Develop custom Terraform providers for specific components as necessary to meet unique business needs.
* Design and develop a custom GCP automation framework in Go for future state environment management.
* Create documentation for training, operation, and support, including runbooks, playbooks, disaster recovery processes, training modules, and architecture diagrams.

Technical Requirements
* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
* At least 2 years of experience as Backend Developer with good understanding of SOLID principles, DRY, modularity and other best practices.
* At least 5 years of experience in roles such as DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), or Cloud Developer.
* Extensive hands-on experience with Terraform in production environments, with deep understanding of state management on high demanding and concurrent teams
* Proven experience with cloud services on GCP (preferred), AWS, or Azure.
* Strong expertise in CI/CD pipeline construction using Cloud Build (preferred), Github Actions, or Tekton.
* Deep understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices, including modularity, reusability, and adherence to 12-Factor App methodology.
* Strong Knowledge of TCP/IP networking protocols and fundamental security principles.
* Expertise in deep Google services, particularly PSC (Private Service Connect) and Load Balancers.
* Proficient with high level multi-paradigm languages such as Golang (preferred), C, or Rust.
* Deep understanding with Git, including experience with pull requests, different git flows, branch management, and merge conflict resolution.
* Knowledge of traffic management strategies, tools, and technologies to optimize network flows and service delivery.
* Excellent communication skills and proficient in time management.

Bonus Skills
* Direct experience with Google Cloud Platform.
* Experience with advanced Terraform setups using frameworks like Terragrunt, Terraspace or Terratest.
* Proficiency in GitOps tools and methodologies.
* Familiarity with distributed architecture concepts, including reverse proxies, web servers, load balancers, network layers, CIDR blocks, NAT, and strategies like blue-green deployments.
* Linux administration skills, with experience managing both servers and desktop environments.
* Proficient in scripting with Bash, PowerShell, or similar scripting languages.