Google Cloud Engineer

Description

We are looking for a Google Cloud Engineer to support secure, scalable, and reliable cloud environments for teams building advanced technology solutions in Salt Lake City, Utah. This is a Contract position focused on strengthening production infrastructure, improving automation, and enabling high-performing engineering and data workflows on Google Cloud. The ideal candidate brings deep experience with a systems administration or applications background compared to only DevOps experience.

Responsibilities:

Architect, deploy, and support production services on Google Cloud with an emphasis on resilience, security, performance, and cost efficiency.

Build and maintain infrastructure components across compute, storage, databases, messaging, serverless platforms, and Kubernetes-based environments.

Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows to provision, validate, and release infrastructure and application changes safely.

Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and establish guardrails that reduce risk, improve consistency, and support controlled change management.

Strengthen cloud foundations by defining and applying standards for identity access, private networking, firewall controls, secrets management, and data protection.

Improve platform observability through monitoring, logging, tracing, and cost reporting, and use insights to optimize service health and operational visibility.

Respond to incidents, investigate root causes, refine alerting and service objectives, and improve backup, recovery, and capacity planning practices.

Partner with security, platform, data, and application teams to review architecture decisions, operational readiness, and risk before production launches.

Guide engineering teams on Google Cloud best practices, sustainable operational processes, and effective use of automation across the delivery lifecycle.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a closely related technical role.

Strong, recent hands-on expertise with Google Cloud Platform, including services such as Pub/Sub and BigQuery.

Proven experience using Terraform to provision and manage cloud infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code practices.

Background building automation scripts and CI/CD workflows for repeatable, reliable deployment and operational processes.

Experience working with Kubernetes in production environments, including deployment, scaling, and ongoing platform support.

Solid understanding of cloud security principles, including least-privilege access, network controls, secrets handling, and compliance-aware design.

Demonstrated ability to support incident response, monitoring, logging, and performance optimization in complex cloud environments.

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