Google Cloud Platform Platform Engineer

Job Summary

We are looking for a skilled Google Cloud Platform Platform Engineer to build, automate, secure, and operate cloud platforms on Google Cloud Platform. The role requires strong hands-on expertise in Google Cloud Platform, Python, Terraform, and cloud security, with supporting experience in IAM, networking, CI/CD, SRE, Vertex AI, and Kubernetes. The candidate will be responsible for developing scalable platform capabilities, enabling infrastructure automation, strengthening security controls, and improving reliability across cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable and secure platform engineering solutions on Google Cloud Platform.
• Develop and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform for automated, repeatable, and auditable cloud provisioning.
• Create and enhance Python-based automation for cloud operations, monitoring, integrations, and platform tooling.
• Implement security controls and guardrails across Google Cloud Platform environments, including identity, access, secrets, and policy enforcement.
• Configure and support IAM models, service accounts, role design, and least-privilege access patterns.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployment across development, test, and production environments.
• Support Kubernetes-based platforms on Google Cloud Platform, including cluster configuration, workload deployment, and operational stability.
• Collaborate with SRE and operations teams to improve observability, monitoring, incident response, and platform reliability.
• Work on networking setup and connectivity patterns, including VPCs, subnets, firewall rules, DNS, and secure access design.
• Enable and support Vertex AI platform capabilities as part of cloud-native and ML-enabled engineering environments.
• Troubleshoot issues related to cloud infrastructure, security controls, deployment automation, and runtime platform performance.
• Document platform standards, automation patterns, operating procedures, and engineering best practices for internal teams and vendors.

Must-Have Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) services and platform engineering practices.
• Proficiency in Python for scripting, automation, and operational tooling.
• Strong experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.
• Good understanding of cloud security principles, access control, secrets management, and policy enforcement.
• Experience with IAM, role design, and service account management in Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Working experience with Kubernetes and containerized platform environments.
• Knowledge of networking concepts including VPC, firewall, DNS, and secure connectivity.
• Familiarity with SRE practices including monitoring, reliability, alerting, and incident response.