Job Summary:
We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer with deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The ideal candidate must have extensive hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating production workloads on GCP, combined with strong knowledge of infrastructure automation, security, reliability, and cloud cost optimization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, deploy, and operate secure, scalable, and highly available GCP environments supporting mission-critical production workloads.
- Define and manage GCP organizational structures, including organizations, folders, projects, Shared VPCs, IAM policies, and service account lifecycle management.
- Build and maintain resilient multi-region and multi-zone architectures to ensure business continuity and disaster recovery.
- Deploy and manage workloads across Compute Engine, GKE (Autopilot and Standard), Cloud Run, and Cloud Functions.
- Develop reusable Terraform modules and automate infrastructure provisioning across networking, compute, data, and security layers.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build and infrastructure automation best practices.
- Implement and maintain GCP security services including:
- VPC Service Controls
- Cloud Armor WAF
- Security Command Center
- Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK)
- Binary Authorization
- Establish governance standards for resource labeling and tagging to enable accurate cost allocation and reporting.
- Lead cloud financial management initiatives and continuously optimize cloud spending.
- Build and maintain billing dashboards and cost-monitoring frameworks.
- Implement budgets, alerts, rightsizing recommendations, and purchasing strategies for CUDs and SUDs.
- Produce monthly cloud cost reports, trend analyses, and optimization roadmaps for engineering and finance stakeholders.
- Mentor engineers on GCP best practices and cloud-native technologies.
- Contribute to internal platform tooling, documentation, and governance standards.
- Collaborate with engineering, security, and finance teams to ensure operational excellence, cost efficiency, and compliance.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of infrastructure, cloud, and DevOps experience.
- Proven hands-on experience designing and operating production environments on Google Cloud Platform.
- Strong expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and cloud security.
- Demonstrated experience implementing FinOps practices and delivering measurable cloud cost reductions.
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience with AI/ML platforms and Vertex AI is a plus.