Senior Google Cloud Engineer

Description

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Google Cloud Engineer to join our team on a long-term contract basis in Salt Lake City, Utah. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, reliable, and scalable cloud infrastructure to support critical business operations. Your contributions will help ensure that teams across the organization can operate efficiently and deliver impactful solutions. If you are passionate about leveraging your expertise in Google Cloud to drive innovation, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities:
Design and manage production-grade workloads on Google Cloud, ensuring security, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
Develop and enforce infrastructure standards for identity, networking, data protection, and secrets management.
Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines to streamline infrastructure provisioning, testing, and deployment.
Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using tools like Terraform to enhance scalability and repeatability.
Troubleshoot incidents, conduct root-cause analysis, and refine system monitoring and alerting mechanisms.
Enhance and maintain private connectivity, firewall policies, and least-privilege access for secure cloud environments.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to review and optimize designs, threat models, and operational readiness.
Mentor team members on cloud best practices, operational excellence, and sustainable on-call strategies.
Improve visibility into cloud costs, system performance, and logging to support organizational goals.
Participate in post-incident reviews to drive continuous improvement of backup, recovery, and capacity management strategies.

Requirements

Minimum of 7 years of experience in cloud engineering, with a focus on Google Cloud Platform.
Proficiency in using Google Cloud services such as Pub/Sub, BigQuery, and Kubernetes.
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
Strong expertise in creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows.
Solid understanding of networking, identity management, and data protection in cloud environments.
Experience with scripting and automation to enhance operational efficiency.
Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and cost optimization tools in cloud ecosystems.
Ability to troubleshoot complex issues and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver solutions.

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