Google Cloud Platform Platform Engineer

W2 role - No third party applications please
Role: Google Cloud Platform Platform Engineer
Location- Hybrid- Roseland, NJ or Alpharetta, GA - (Looking for only locals)
Duration: 12 months with likely extensions


We are seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer to help build, enhance, and support a large-scale Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) environment. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone with deep public cloud experience who can help develop the platforms, automation, and tooling that enable engineering teams to build and operate secure, resilient, cloud-native applications at scale
The ideal candidate brings extensive Google Cloud Platform expertise, strong Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience, and a software engineering mindset toward cloud infrastructure

Required Qualifications
Approximately 10+ years of hands-on architecture and engineering experience, with significant recent experience in public cloud environments.
Extensive hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform).
Strong experience designing and supporting enterprise-scale cloud platforms.
Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform.
Strong understanding of Git, GitOps, source control, and modern software engineering practices.
Hands-on experience building automation and reusable engineering solutions.
Experience developing and supporting enterprise CI/CD pipelines, including tools such as Jenkins.
Experience with artifact management platforms such as Artifactory.
Strong understanding of cloud-native application architecture, resiliency, scalability, and security.
Experience establishing cloud environments that are secure, compliant, cost-effective, and easy for development teams to adopt.
Ability to troubleshoot complex cloud infrastructure, deployment, and production issues.
Experience working with engineering collaboration and documentation tools such as Jira and Confluence.