Google Cloud Platform Platform Engineer (Multiple Openings)
Location: Jersey City, NJ (5 days onsite)
Duration: 6 Months
Position Overview
Seeking a Google Cloud Platform Platform Engineer to support and evolve a large-scale Google Cloud Platform environment. This is a hands-on platform engineering role focused on building, operating, and maintaining shared cloud infrastructure that application and service teams depend on.
The ideal candidate is a platform-minded engineer who takes ownership of cloud foundations networking, identity, infrastructure as code, and deployment pipelines ensuring reliability, security, and operational excellence across multiple environments.
Key Responsibilities
Own and operate the Google Cloud Platform platform foundation, including infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD enablement, and operational support.
Manage and support CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments.
Use Terraform as the source of truth to provision, manage, and evolve Google Cloud Platform infrastructure.
Design, maintain, and execute operational runbooks.
Operate and support core Google Cloud Platform services across compute, networking, storage, and identity.
Support event-driven and messaging architectures.
Act as an escalation point for platform-level issues.
Partner with security and compliance stakeholders.
Enable application teams with stable, scalable platform capabilities.
Required Qualifications
Strong hands-on experience with Terraform.
Deep understanding of Google Cloud Platform (Org, Folders, Projects, IAM, Networking, Compute, Storage).
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tooling.
Experience operating production Google Cloud Platform environments.
Strong troubleshooting skills.
Python for automation and tooling.