Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer (GCP)
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About the Role
CONNECT Professional Services seeks a Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer with deep GCP expertise to design, deploy, and operate secure, scalable production environments. The role involves infrastructure automation, cloud security, cost optimization, and mentoring engineers.
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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 for business continuity and disaster recovery
- Deploy and manage workloads across Compute Engine, GKE, 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, Security Command Center, CMEK, and 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
- Mentor engineers on GCP best practices and cloud native technologies
- Collaborate with engineering, security, and finance teams to ensure operational excellence, cost efficiency, and compliance
Requirements
- 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
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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), and 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.
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.
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