Google Cloud Platform Engineer

Title: Google Cloud Platform Cloud Platform Engineer

Locations: Houston, TX; Mayfield Heights OH; Milwaukee, WI (Two positions)

Team: IT Platform Engineering, Infrastructure & Operations

Role summary We are bringing Google Cloud Platform into our enterprise-supported cloud environment alongside our existing Azure platform. This contract-to-hire engineer will build and harden an enterprise-ready Google Cloud Platform landing zone and help evolve our current tenant from experimentation into a governed, production-grade platform. The role partners closely with identity, security, FinOps and AI Governance teams.

Key responsibilities

• Design and deploy an enterprise landing zone covering organization, folder, and project structure, IAM, connectivity, logging, and security integrations, aligned to landing zone best practices.

• Migrate unmanaged Google accounts to managed identities and implement Entra-to-Google identity sync with full SSO and MFA.

• Consolidate projects into a single billing account to enable FinOps invoicing and chargeback.

• Establish network guardrails including public IP blocking policies, centralized VPCs and hub architecture, and private access and endpoints.

• Centralize audit logging and monitoring and integrate enterprise security tooling such as Wiz and CrowdStrike.

• Implement platform components as code (Terraform) with reusable, secure, policy-enforced modules.

• Document standards and operational runbooks to support handoff to platform and cloud operations teams.

Required qualifications

• Hands-on Google Cloud Platform platform engineering experience, including Cloud Identity, IAM, org policy, VPC networking, and billing administration.

• Identity federation experience with Microsoft Entra ID, SSO, and MFA.

• Infrastructure as code proficiency with Terraform.

• Working knowledge of cloud security posture management and log and monitoring centralization.

• Experience taking a cloud environment from POC to enterprise-governed state.

Preferred

• Experience operating a second cloud (Azure) at enterprise scale.

• FinOps and chargeback model experience.

• Familiarity with Wiz, CrowdStrike, and manufacturing or regulated enterprise environments.

Engagement Contract-to-hire. Initial focus is landing zone buildout and enterprise readiness, with potential conversion to support ongoing Google Cloud Platform platform operations.