Cloud GCP Senior Engineer

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We are looking for a skilled Cloud Engineer with solid Google Cloud Platform experience to join our cloud practice team. You will be responsible for building, maintaining, and optimizing GCP cloud infrastructure environments, implementing GCP-native services, automating cloud operations, and supporting the delivery of reliable and scalable GCP solutions including hybrid cloud workloads.

Key Responsibilities

• Provision and manage GCP infrastructure resources using Terraform (VPC, IAM, Compute, GKE, Cloud Run)
• Build and maintain GCP VPC networks, subnets, firewall rules, Cloud IAM roles, and policies
• Deploy and manage containerized workloads on GKE and serverless workloads on Cloud Run
• Implement on-prem to GCP connectivity using Cloud VPN and assist with Cloud Interconnect setups
• Implement monitoring and observability using Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and Datadog
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management using Terraform and Python scripts
• Participate in GCP cost optimization reviews and implement rightsizing recommendations
• Support GCP security implementation including CIS benchmarks and vulnerability remediation
• Troubleshoot GCP infrastructure issues and respond to operational incidents
• Document infrastructure configurations, runbooks, and operational procedures
• Collaborate with DevOps and development teams to support GCP application deployments
• Support workload migration activities from on-prem and other platforms to GCP

Required Qualifications & Skills (GCP Mandatory)

• 5+ years of hands‑on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) mandatory
• Working knowledge of GCP-native services: Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud IAM, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub
• Proficiency in Terraform for GCP infrastructure automation
• Experience with GKE workload deployment and Cloud Run service management
• Understanding of GCP networking: VPC, Subnets, Firewall rules, Cloud NAT, Cloud VPN
• Experience with hybrid cloud environments and on‑prem connectivity basics
• Linux system administration and shell scripting (Bash)
• Basic Python scripting for automation tasks
• Experience with version control systems (Git)

Preferred / Nice‑to‑Have (AWS / Azure Considered)

• Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer certification
• Experience with CI/CD integration for GCP infrastructure deployment
• Knowledge of Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and log‑based alerting
• AWS or Azure exposure (nice to have)

Mandatory Competencies

• Cloud – GCP – Artifact Registry, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
• DevOps/Configuration Mgmt – Terraform
• Operating System – Linux
• Cloud – GCP – Cloud Build, Google Cloud Deploy, Dataflow, Cloud Run