Lead DevOps Engineer

Job summary

Point Wild is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to architect and automate their cloud infrastructure and continuous delivery strategy on Google Cloud. The role involves ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of production environments while driving DevOps practices forward.

Qualifications

• Senior/Lead level experience operating production workloads on GCP and GKE (cluster topology, Helm, Kustomize, and ArgoCD)
• Expert-level Terraform skills with extensive experience running GitOps workflows at scale (specifically via Atlantis)
• Strong track record of designing, building, and maintaining multi-stage automated deployment pipelines
• High proficiency with Istio (VirtualServices, mTLS, sidecar injection) and API Gateways (specifically Kong)
• Hands-on experience enforcing enterprise-grade security and secret management (Auth0, Dex, ESO, SOPS, VPC-SC, IAM)
• Solid operational comfort with Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL), BigQuery, and in-cluster datastores like Elasticsearch or ClickHouse
• At least an upper-intermediate level of spoken and written English

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and manage highly available, fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
• Maintain and scale declarative infrastructure using Terraform across a multi-hundred-file estate, enforcing GitOps workflows with Atlantis
• Build, maintain, and optimize robust automated pipelines for continuous integration and delivery using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and ArgoCD
• Manage enterprise networking perimeters, service mesh architectures (Istio mTLS, VirtualServices), and API Gateways (Kong) for secure ingress, egress, and microservices traffic
• Implement comprehensive telemetry, log aggregation, and alerting to ensure high availability, optimal resource utilization, and fast incident response
• Enforce strict security postures (VPC-SC, IAM, Org Policies), manage identity and secrets storage, maintain compliance standards (such as SOC2), and participate in the operational on-call rotation

Skills

Relocation