DevOps Engineer

Ambush is a people-first engineering, design, strategy, and AI company that partners with leading organizations to build meaningful products and lasting outcomes. The DevOps Engineer will design and manage GCP infrastructure, build CI/CD pipelines, implement infrastructure automation, and establish observability and security practices. The role also involves troubleshooting systems, supporting high availability and disaster recovery, contributing to DevOps best practices, and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and manage GCP-based infrastructure ensuring scalability, performance, and cost efficiency
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support reliable deployments and automated testing
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automate environment setup and configuration
• Establish and maintain observability frameworks: monitoring, logging, and alerting for uptime and performance
• Collaborate with Security and Engineering to enforce least privilege, compliance, and Zero Trust principles
• Troubleshoot and optimize system performance, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery readiness
• Contribute to DevOps best practices and mentor other engineers on automation, cloud, and reliability

Requirements:

• Proven expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) like Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Build, IAM, VPC, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Run
• Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or Pulumi)
• Solid scripting/automation experience
• Deep understanding of Docker and Kubernetes orchestration
• Strong knowledge of networking, cloud security (IAM, firewalls, service accounts), and high availability architecture
• Experience with CI/CD systems (CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, GitLab CI, etc)
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting (Stackdriver, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar)
• Excellent English proficiency is extremely important; you will have daily contact with senior stakeholders, and communication is key
• Availability to travel to Australia for 2–3 months
• Experience with multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure)
• Experience with Zero Trust networking and DevSecOps practices
• Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration systems such as Temporal, Cadence, or Airflow
• Previous exposure to regulated environments (HIPAA, SOC 2, or equivalent compliance frameworks)
• Familiarity with modern edge security practices, including Zero Trust networking, service meshes, and mTLS