The must have skills for this role are: Google Security Engineer, Google Service Enablement knowledge, Terraform, and DevOps.
Nice to have skills include hands on experience with Vertex AI, Gemini, and other Google services.
Role Summary:
We are looking for a hands-on Senior Google Cloud Platform Engineer to support the enablement of Google Cloud Platform services within a large, regulated enterprise environment.
This role will focus initially on enabling Vertex AI and Gemini AI services, followed by a phased rollout of additional Google Cloud Platform services as part of a broader multi-cloud strategy.
The ideal candidate will combine deep technical expertise in Google Cloud Platform infrastructure, security, and automation with experience working in highly governed, compliance-driven environments.
This is a delivery-focused role with opportunities to provide technical leadership and influence platform standards and best practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Google Cloud Platform Platform & Service Enablement
- Design, build, and enable secure-by-default Google Cloud Platform landing zones aligned with enterprise governance standards.
- Lead the enablement of Vertex AI and Gemini AI services, focusing on secure consumption patterns rather than model tuning.
- Support phased rollout of 15–20 additional Google Cloud Platform services over 12 months, following defined enablement and approval processes.
Infrastructure as Code & Automation:
- Develop and maintain Terraform-based infrastructure, including:
- Organization, folder, and project hierarchy
- IAM foundations and identity federation
- Network configurations (Shared VPCs, private access, firewall policies)
- Organization policies and guardrails
- Build reusable Terraform modules and manage deployments using GitOps and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform Enterprise).
- Implement policy-as-code gates, Terraform plan checks, and compliance validations.
Security, Governance & Compliance:
- Implement and enforce enterprise security controls, including:
- Workforce and workload identity federation
- Least-privilege IAM and RBAC models
- VPC Service Controls and hierarchical firewall policies
- Cloud KMS, Secret Manager, and data protection controls
- Collaborate closely with security, risk, and compliance teams to review guardrails and monitoring requirements.
- Support identity federation across clouds (e.g., AWS–Google Cloud Platform) and hybrid connectivity patterns (VPN / Interconnect).
CI/CD, Testing & Release Management:
- Build and support CI/CD pipelines for platform enablement and service rollout.
- Implement testing strategies for infrastructure and platform components, including:
- Unit and integration testing
- Static analysis and policy validation
- End-to-end testing in non-production environments
- Work within enterprise release governance frameworks, including ServiceNow-based change and release management.
Documentation & Collaboration:
- Produce clear, high-quality technical documentation for platform designs, enablement processes, and operational runbooks.
- Act as a hands-on contributor while providing guidance to peers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical discussions.
- Partner with platform, application, and security stakeholders to ensure smooth onboarding and adoption of Google Cloud Platform services.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 10+ years of overall IT experience, with 5–6+ years of hands-on Google Cloud Platform experience.
- Strong expertise in Google Cloud Platform, including:
- Google Cloud Platform organization and project structures
- IAM, identity federation, and security policies
- Networking (Shared VPCs, private access, firewall rules)
- Vertex AI and AI service enablement
- Advanced experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code in large-scale environments.
- Strong understanding of security, governance, and compliance in regulated enterprises (financial services preferred).
- Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and platform services.
- Proficiency in Python (automation, scripting, testing).
- Experience working in multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments (AWS + Google Cloud Platform a plus).
Working Style
- Strong hands-on Individual Contributor with the ability to take end-to-end ownership.
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced, high-governance environments.
- Clear communicator able to explain complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
- Collaborative mindset with a focus on secure, scalable, and repeatable solutions.
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