Hybrid Senior DevOps Engineer – GCP

at Heidi Health

• Job title: Senior DevOps Engineer – GCP
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, DNS, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Linux, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Melbourne, Australia

About the role

• Senior DevOps Engineer focused on GCP platform engineering at healthtech startup. Collaborating with teams to enhance compute and networking capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve compute platforms (Compute Engine, managed instance groups, GKE, container runtimes)
• Implement and enhance GCP networking components (VPCs, peering, Private Service Connect, Cloud DNS, load balancing)
• Contribute to secure and scalable network topologies across environments
• Implement agreed platform patterns and standards for compute and networking
• Deliver platform infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Improve automation and CI/CD pipelines for platform changes
• Work with senior engineers to improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency
• Participate in incident response and post-incident improvements
• Work alongside senior platform engineers and architects on design and rollout
• Support application teams consuming compute and networking capabilities
• Contribute documentation, examples, and runbooks
• Provide pragmatic feedback to help evolve platform standards over time, including incident response and SLO ownership

Requirements

• 3–7+ years experience in cloud or platform engineering
• Hands-on production experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Strong understanding of cloud compute and networking fundamentals
• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Familiarity with GCP networking primitives (VPCs, firewall rules, private connectivity)
• Comfortable operating Linux-based workloads
• Nice to Have: Experience with other cloud providers (AWS, Azure), Exposure to GKE or Kubernetes in production, Familiarity with multi-project or landing zone–style setups, Experience in high-availability or security-conscious environments

Benefits

• Flexible hybrid working environment, with 3 days in the office.
• A generous personal development budget of $500 per annum
• Learn from some of the best engineers and creatives, joining a diverse team
• Become an owner, with shares (equity) in the company, if Heidi wins, we all win
• The rare chance to create a global impact as you immerse yourself in one of Australia’s leading healthtech startups
• If you have an impact quickly, the opportunity to fast track your startup career!