Cloud Infrastructure / IaC Engineer

About Photon

Photon is a Digital Engineering and Digital Modernization company founded in 1999, partnering with leading global enterprises, including Fortune 500 organizations, to build and modernize digital platforms and experiences.

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Cloud Infrastructure / Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) Engineer responsible for building, automating, and managing cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform). The role will focus on infrastructure automation, repeatable provisioning, scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency across cloud environments. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, Infrastructure-as-Code, cloud infrastructure management, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and manage cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform).
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions to automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
• Build reusable and repeatable infrastructure automation solutions for application and platform environments.
• Support the provisioning, configuration, and ongoing management of cloud infrastructure across multiple environments.
• Collaborate with application and platform engineering teams to define infrastructure requirements and deployment needs.
• Improve infrastructure scalability, reliability, consistency, and operational efficiency through automation.
• Implement and maintain infrastructure monitoring and observability using Datadog and Grafana.
• Troubleshoot cloud infrastructure, configuration, connectivity, and deployment issues.
• Participate in incident response activities and root-cause analysis for infrastructure-related issues.
• Maintain infrastructure code and configurations using GitHub and established engineering practices.
• Support secure configuration and deployment of cloud infrastructure.
• Use Jira for engineering activities, issue tracking, and delivery management.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or related engineering roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform).
• Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and infrastructure automation.
• Experience managing and supporting cloud infrastructure at scale.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog and Grafana.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across cloud and infrastructure environments.
• Experience supporting incident investigation, root-cause analysis, and resolution.
• Familiarity with Jira and GitHub.
• Familiarity with unit testing and API testing within an engineering environment.
• Understanding of secure coding practices and infrastructure security principles.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with application, platform, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams.