Senior GCP & Oracle Cloud DevOps Engineer – Platform & Tools

Company Description

CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER. It’s our heritage and it’s also our future. Because we don’t just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire, entertain and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard—when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day. We value and share an infinite range of ideas and voices that evolve and broaden our perspectives with a reach that extends into all our brands, partners, and suppliers.

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior GCP & Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and manage secure, scalable, highly available, and resilient cloud infrastructure across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in multi-cloud architecture, DevOps practices, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD automation, Kubernetes, cloud networking, observability, and cloud security. You will work closely with development, QA, security, architecture, and operations teams to streamline software delivery, automate infrastructure management, and improve platform reliability across GCP and OCI environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure across GCP and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Design and support multi-cloud architectures, connectivity, and workloads spanning GCP and OCI.
• Implement reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules and automated provisioning using Terraform.
• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Google Cloud Build, OCI DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, and Argo CD.
• Deploy and manage containerized applications using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE).
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, application deployments, configuration management, monitoring, patching, and operational tasks.
• Implement and manage cloud networking, including VPC/VCN, subnets, routing, load balancers, DNS, VPNs, firewalls/security lists, NAT gateways, and private connectivity.
• Implement IAM, identity federation, service accounts, OCI dynamic groups, policies, and least-privilege access controls.
• Configure monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability using Google Cloud Operations Suite, OCI Monitoring, OCI Logging, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Optimize cloud resources across GCP and OCI for performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and cost efficiency.
• Design and support backup, disaster recovery, high availability, and business continuity strategies across cloud environments.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and production issues and participate in incident management, root cause analysis, and remediation.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve application deployment, release management, and platform engineering processes.
• Implement and enforce DevSecOps, vulnerability management, secrets management, policy enforcement, and compliance standards.
• Support container and artifact security, vulnerability scanning, and secure software supply-chain practices.
• Maintain technical documentation, cloud architecture diagrams, deployment procedures, and operational runbooks.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote DevOps, automation, security, and cloud engineering best practices across teams.

Required Skills:

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
• Compute Engine
• Cloud Run
• Cloud Functions
• Cloud Build
• Cloud Storage
• Cloud SQL
• BigQuery
• Pub/Sub
• VPC, IAM, Load Balancing, and Cloud DNS
• Secret Manager
• Artifact Registry
• Google Cloud Operations Suite

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

• Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE)
• OCI Compute
• OCI Functions
• OCI Container Instances
• OCI Object Storage
• OCI Database services
• Autonomous Database
• OCI DevOps
• OCI Container Registry / Artifact Registry
• Virtual Cloud Network (VCN)
• OCI IAM, compartments, policies, and dynamic groups
• OCI Load Balancer
• OCI DNS
• OCI Vault and Secrets
• OCI Monitoring and Logging
• OCI Notifications
• OCI Service Connector Hub
• OCI Cloud Guard and Security Zones
• FastConnect, Site-to-Site VPN, and Dynamic Routing Gateway (DRG)

DevOps & Infrastructure Automation

• Terraform
• Terraform modules and remote state management
• Ansible (preferred)
• Bash/Shell scripting
• Python (preferred)
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Helm
• GitOps practices

CI/CD

• Google Cloud Build
• OCI DevOps
• GitHub Actions
• GitLab CI/CD
• Jenkins
• Argo CD (preferred)

Kubernetes & Containers

• Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
• Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE)
• Docker
• Kubernetes administration and troubleshooting
• Helm
• Kubernetes networking and ingress
• Kubernetes RBAC and security
• Container registry and image management
• Autoscaling and resource optimization

Monitoring & Logging

• Google Cloud Operations Suite
• OCI Monitoring
• OCI Logging
• OCI Logging Analytics
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• ELK/OpenSearch (preferred)
• Application and infrastructure alerting

Cloud Networking

• GCP VPC and OCI VCN
• Subnets and routing
• Load balancing
• DNS
• NAT
• Firewalls and OCI security lists/network security groups
• VPN and private connectivity
• OCI FastConnect
• GCP Cloud Interconnect
• TCP/IP and network troubleshooting
• Hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity

Security & DevSecOps

• GCP IAM and OCI IAM
• Workload Identity
• OCI dynamic groups and instance/resource principals
• OAuth and service accounts
• Secret Manager and OCI Vault
• Security Command Center
• OCI Cloud Guard
• Container security and vulnerability scanning
• Policy enforcement and compliance
• Encryption and key management
• Identity federation and least-privilege access
• Security automation and remediation

Version Control

• Git
• GitHub
• GitLab
• Bitbucket

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 6–10+ years of overall IT/DevOps/Cloud Engineering experience.
• 4–6+ years of hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform and/or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, with strong practical experience in at least one platform and demonstrated experience working with the other.
• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, or operating multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments is strongly preferred.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, particularly GKE and/or OKE, and Docker.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Terraform, including reusable modules, state management, and automated infrastructure deployment.
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong cloud and networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, load balancing, VPNs, VPC/VCN, firewalls, and private connectivity.
• Experience implementing cloud IAM, secrets management, encryption, network security, and other cloud security best practices.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, observability, incident management, and production troubleshooting.
• Understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity principles.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps and automated security controls is preferred.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, documentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with application development, security, architecture, QA, and infrastructure teams.

Additional Information

Preferred Qualifications

• Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer, Professional Cloud Architect, or equivalent GCP certification.
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional, DevOps Professional, or equivalent OCI certification.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).
• HashiCorp Terraform certification.
• Experience migrating workloads between on-premises environments, GCP, and OCI.
• Experience designing GCP-to-OCI connectivity and multi-cloud architectures.
• Experience with GitOps, platform engineering, and Kubernetes-based deployment patterns.
• Experience operating enterprise-scale, highly available production environments.