Senior Developer / DevOps Engineer (GCP/Node.js)

The Role

What You'll Do

Development (50%)

DevOps / SRE (50%)

• Build and maintain backend microservices in Node.js / TypeScript (NestJS, Express).
• Develop and extend Strapi-based content and platform services.
• Design and implement REST and GraphQL APIs consumed by internal and external clients.
• Contribute to auth platform work — token management, session handling, identity provider integration.
• Write and maintain database schemas and migrations (PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Review code across the backend stack; contribute to engineering standards and documentation.
• Debug and resolve production application issues end-to-end.
• Own and operate GKE clusters — scaling, upgrades, PDBs, resource tuning, zero-downtime deploys.
• Manage all GCP infrastructure via Terraform — VPCs, IAM, Cloud SQL, GKE, storage.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions; manage GitOps workflows with ArgoCD.
• Define and monitor SLOs/SLIs; maintain observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki).
• Own IAM posture — least-privilege service accounts, Workload Identity, audit logging.
• Handle database operations — backup validation, restore testing, rightsizing, failover.
• Conduct FinOps reviews; identify and act on GCP cost reduction opportunities.

What We're Looking For

Development

• 3+ years building production backend services in Node.js / TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience with NestJS or Express — REST APIs, middleware, authentication flows.
• Experience with Strapi or a comparable Node.js CMS / headless platform is a strong plus.
• Comfortable with PostgreSQL and MongoDB — schema design, migrations, query optimization.
• Able to read and write React for debugging or minor frontend contributions.
• Strong fundamentals: clean code, code review, testing (unit + integration), async patterns.

DevOps / Infrastructure

• 3+ years of hands-on DevOps or SRE experience in a production cloud environment.
• Solid Kubernetes experience — cluster operations, RBAC, networking, storage, rolling updates (GKE preferred).
• Proficient with Terraform — modularized configurations, state management, GCP provider.
• GitHub Actions CI/CD experience including self-hosted runners and secrets management.
• GitOps with ArgoCD or equivalent; multi-environment deployment pipelines.
• GCP hands-on experience: GKE, Cloud SQL, IAM, VPC, Cloud Storage, Secret Manager.
• Monitoring and alerting stack ownership — Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent.
• Comfortable scripting in Python or Bash for automation and tooling.

General

• Comfortable context-switching between application development and infrastructure work.
• Strong written and verbal English — you'll write runbooks, ADRs, and post-mortems.
• Self-directed and high-ownership in a small team without heavy process.

Nice to Have

★ CKA, AWS/GCP professional certification, or Terraform Associate.

★ HashiCorp Vault hands-on (dynamic secrets, K8s agent injector).

★ Istio or other service mesh production experience.

★ SOC 2 compliance exposure — infrastructure controls, access reviews, audit evidence. ★ FinOps experience — identifying and acting on cloud cost reduction.

★ Experience in cybersecurity, insurtech, or a regulated data environment.

★ Familiarity with GraphQL API design.