DevOps/Cloud Engineer
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Employment Type Full time; Monday-Friday, 8 am-5pm (every other Friday off) Must be a resident of the state of Idaho or UtahTo apply, send resumes to hr@bestnotes.comVisit Bestnotes.com to learn about our organization.
Reports To: CTO
Job Description: DevOps / Cloud Engineer
Position Summary:
We are seeking a skilled DevOps / Systems Administrator to help maintain, secure, and evolveour cloud infrastructure in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role supports two coreapplication environments: This position is responsible for infrastructure reliability, security, performance, operationalmaturity, and effective collaboration with internal development teams and external infrastructureservice partners. The ideal candidate is comfortable working across traditional VM-basedenvironments and modern containerized cloud-native systems, with a strong security mindsetand a practical approach to availability, maintainability, and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Cloud Infrastructure and Operations
- Security and Compliance
- Legacy platform: PHP application running on virtual machines with Apache and MySQLModern platform: JavaScript / FHIR-based application using PostgreSQL and Kubernetes
- Administer, maintain, and improve GCP-based infrastructure for both legacy and modernapplication stacks
- Manage compute, networking, storage, IAM, secrets, logging, monitoring, backup, anddisaster recovery capabilities
- Maintain and optimize VM-based application environments, including Apache, PHP, MySQL, Linux systems, and supporting services
- Support and operate Kubernetes-based environments for modern applications, includingcluster health, deployments, scaling, ingress, observability, and platform stability
- Maintain CI/CD and operational workflows that support reliable application delivery acrossenvironments
- Monitor system health, performance, availability, and capacity, and proactively address risksand bottlenecks
- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation planning
- Help design, implement, and enforce security best practices across infrastructure, platforms, and operational processes
- Collaboration and Platform Support
Required Qualifications:
- Harden systems and services, manage patching processes, and reduce infrastructure riskexposure
- Maintain secure IAM, access controls, secrets handling, certificate management, andnetwork segmentation
- Partner with development teams and service providers to improve secure deploymentpatterns and operational controls
- Support audit, compliance, vulnerability remediation, logging, and evidence-gatheringprocesses as needed
- Continuously evaluate infrastructure and application architecture for security improvements
- Work closely with software development teams to support application delivery, troubleshooting, performance, and operational readiness
- Serve as a bridge between engineering, operations, security, and external infrastructurepartners
- Coordinate with third-party service providers, cloud partners, and infrastructure vendors onimplementation, troubleshooting, and operational improvements
- Contribute to infrastructure standards, documentation, runbooks, and operational processes
- Help guide architecture decisions with a focus on reliability, security, scalability, andsupportability
- Strong hands-on experience administering production systems in Google Cloud Platform
- Experience supporting Linux-based web application environments
- Strong experience with one or more of the following:
- Apache / PHP / MySQL on VMsKubernetes-based application platforms
- PostgreSQL administration in application environments
- Experience with cloud networking, firewalls, IAM, service accounts, DNS, TLS/certificates, load balancing, and backup/recovery
- Strong understanding of infrastructure security principles and operational hardening
- Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response
- Experience working directly with software engineers and technical vendors / servicepartners
- Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills
This description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. It is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and requirements. Other functions may be assigned, and management retains the right to add to or change the duties and responsibilities at any time.