Job Description

About You
You're looking for a challenge where you can take ownership of building and maintaining Google Cloud infrastructure for a large-scale operational platform. You will work closely with a platform lead to stand up Kubernetes workloads (GKE clusters and/or Helm-based deployments, final architecture still being finalized with the client), CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native monitoring, with the heaviest infrastructure work taking place during the first two months as the platform comes online, followed by pipeline maintenance and deployment support through acceptance.
This is a platform-focused DevOps role where strong Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Git expertise are essential. You will work within defined Dev/QA access boundaries and contribute to a structured delivery process.
Note: This role operates under a 5-month contractor model, with at least 4 hours of daily overlap with U.S. Eastern business hours required.
You Bring to Applaudo the Following Competencies:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering,



or a related field is desired, or equivalent professional experience.
- 5+ years of professional experience with Terraform on Google Cloud, including building and maintaining infrastructure from an existing baseline and building new modules from scratch where none exist (e.g., GKE)
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including both GKE cluster setup/management and Helm chart packaging and deployment.
- Working knowledge of Cloud Run for containerized service deployment.
- Experience deploying and maintaining Cloud Composer (Airflow-based) for orchestration, including environment configuration.
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and environment promotion workflows, using Cloud Build and Artifact Registry.
- Experience implementing and maintaining Google Cloud-native monitoring, alerting, and logging using Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging.
- Strong Git fundamentals, including branch

📌 Google Cloud DevOps Engineer (Bogotá)
🏢 Applaudo Studios
📍 Bogotá