GKE Administrator and Cloud Delivery Engineer

Job Description

 Appealing Points:

• Lead Enterprise GKE Platform Engineering – Design, deploy, and optimize production-grade Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) environments with a focus on scalability, security, and reliability.
• Work with Modern Cloud & DevOps Technologies – Utilize GKE, Terraform, Helm, GitOps, ArgoCD, Ansible, and Kubernetes-native tools to build and automate cloud-native platforms.
• Drive Cloud Operations & Platform Excellence – Collaborate with application teams to enhance platform security, observability, automation, and continuous delivery across enterprise cloud environments.

Annual salary: 9 million and above

Job Responsibilities:

• Provision, manage, and optimise GKE clusters including Autopilot and Standard modes across multiple environments
• Design and implement cluster networking, including VPC-native clusters, Shared VPC, and Private GKE configurations
• Manage GKE IAM, RBAC policies, and Workload Identity integration to enforce least-privilege access
• Own cluster lifecycle management: upgrades, node pool management, auto-scaling, and cost optimisation
• Define and maintain infrastructure-as-code for GKE using Terraform and Helm charts
• Implement GitOps workflows using ArgoCD or Flux for continuous delivery to GKE environments
• Configure and manage Kubernetes-native tooling: Ingress controllers, service mesh (Istio/Anthos), and policy controllers (OPA/Gatekeeper)
• Deliver observability solutions using Google Cloud Monitoring, Managed Prometheus, and Cloud Logging
• Automate operational tasks and cluster configuration using Ansible playbooks
• Collaborate with application teams to define workload specifications, resource quotas, and namespace governance
• Support cloud delivery activities including release planning, environment management, and go-live support

Job Qualification:

• 4+ years of experience administering production Kubernetes clusters, with at least 2 years on GKE
• Strong understanding of GKE networking: VPC-native, Shared VPC, Private Clusters, Cloud NAT
• Hands-on experience with Terraform for GKE cluster provisioning and node pool management
• Proficiency in Helm for Kubernetes application packaging and deployment
• Experience with GKE IAM, RBAC, and Workload Identity Federation
• Familiarity with GitOps tools (ArgoCD, Flux) and CI/CD pipeline integration
• Working knowledge of Ansible for configuration management and automation
• Strong understanding of container security, image scanning, and Binary Authorization

Preferred Skills:

• Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer or CKA/CKAD certification
• Experience with Anthos Service Mesh or Istio on GKE
• Familiarity with Vertex AI Workbench or ML workloads on GKE
• Experience managing multi-tenant GKE platforms at enterprise scale
• Background in SRE practices, SLO definition, and error budget management

Language Skills: Business level Japanese (JLPT N2 and above) and Business level English

Company Description: 

This company is one of the largest IT consulting companies in Europe, with more than 200,000 employees based in locations in over 40 countries.

As a global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation, they were established in 2013 as a Japanese corporation of the world's leading IT consulting company at the forefront of innovation, and they offer a wide range of integrated services with the highest level of technology and abundant expertise.