Cloud Engineer
Pubblicato il 07-09-2026 - Hays in Italia
Cloud Engineer (GCP) - Switzerland
Full-Time Consultancy Assignment | Ticino
The Opportunity
For an established organisation operating in a secure and highly regulated environment, we are looking for an experienced Cloud Engineer to join its Infrastructure and Platform Engineering team in Ticino.
This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building, automating, securing, and operating cloud-native infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform. You will work directly with Terraform, Kubernetes/GKE, Python, Bash, and Git in a production environment.
The position requires full-time availability and daily onsite presence in Ticino. Remote or hybrid arrangements cannot be considered.
Your Responsibilities
- Build, deploy, and maintain secure and scalable infrastructure on GCP.
- Write and manage reusable, production-grade Terraform modules.
- Deploy, operate, upgrade, and troubleshoot workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine.
- Manage GCP services including IAM, VPC networks, and Compute Engine.
- Develop automation and operational tooling using Python and Bash.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or GCP-native tooling.
- Work through Git-based workflows, including branching, code reviews, and merge requests.
- Implement cloud security controls, least-privilege access, secrets management, and SSL/TLS configurations.
- Configure monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions.
- Investigate production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement preventive actions.
- Collaborate with development, security, and external engineering teams in an Agile environment.
Your Profile
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience in Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering, or DevOps.
- Strong production experience with Google Cloud Platform.
- Advanced practical knowledge of Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
- Solid experience operating Kubernetes, preferably GKE, and containerised workloads.
- Experience with GCP services such as IAM, VPC networ