Intermediate Applications Developer

UPS is hiring an Intermediate Applications Developer for a remote role open to applicants in India. Level rates it ; you can apply on UPS.

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On Level's scale, this role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
This is listed as a remote role.
The posting mentions Google Cloud, Kubernetes and Postgres among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a mid-level role.
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Site Reliability Engineer focused on GCP infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and high availability systems.

Google CloudKubernetesPostgresBigQueryPrometheusGrafanaDynatrace

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Job Description:

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – GCP Expert

Experience: 5 to 6 years

Location: [Insert Location or "Remote"]

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary:

We are seeking a skilled and proactive Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 5–8 years of experience and deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The ideal candidate will be responsible for the reliability, availability, and performance of cloud-based applications and infrastructure. You will collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to build and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available systems.

Key Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and maintain reliable, scalable, and highly available systems on GCP.
Build and manage CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), and monitoring solutions.
Proactively monitor and manage system performance, uptime, and capacity using observability tools.
Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and application-level issues in real-time.
Implement and maintain disaster recovery, failover mechanisms, and backup strategies.
Automate repetitive tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce toil.
Participate in on-call rotations, incident management, and root cause analysis (RCA).
Ensure compliance with security standards, privacy regulations, and governance policies.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support DevOps and SRE best practices.
Drive improvements in SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets through data-driven insights.

Required Qualifications:

4–6 years of relevant experience as an SRE, DevOps Engineer, or Cloud Infrastructure Engineer.
Cloud Experience (GCP/AWS): Virtual Machines, Pub/Sub, Networking (Cloud NAT, VPC, Subnets, Load Balancer, Firewalls), Kubernetes (GKE), Buckets, Databases: Postgres, Cloud SQL, BigQuery
Incident Management: SLA, SLO, SLI; Error Budgeting (MTTR, MTTD)
Observability: Dynatrace, Prometheus & Grafana, Dashboarding
Automation: Shell Scripting, Terraform
Good to have: CI/CD (Jenkins, ArgoCD), Cloud Security & Compliance, Vulnerability Management, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

GCP certifications (e.g., Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, Cloud Architect).
Exposure to multi-cloud environments or hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Familiarity with Agile and ITIL frameworks.
Experience working in regulated environments with compliance standards (e.g., ISO, SOC2).

Employee Type:

Permanent

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How we rate this

Intermediate Applications Developer at UPS rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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Key facts

Intermediate Applications Developer is an open job at UPS.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in IN - TDC 1 (IN110) and is marked remote.
The job was posted on May 2, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by UPS. Apply on UPS

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Google CloudKubernetesPostgresBigQueryPrometheusGrafanaDynatrace

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Walk me through how you've used Kubernetes in your day-to-day work.
What are the limits of Postgres that you've run into, and how did you work around them?
What's a project where you used BigQuery hands-on?
Walk me through how you've used Prometheus in your day-to-day work.

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