GCP Cloud Platform Engineer (37.5 hrs/Week Part-time)

Location: New York, NY (100% onsite)

Duration: 30 months (part-time, 37.5 hrs/week)

About the role

The Senior Platform Engineer is a technical contributor on the newly established DFS Platform Services team. This role owns significant portions of the platform build including CI/CD pipelines, GCP infrastructure, GKE cluster operations, and the observability stack. The Senior Platform Engineer works within standards set by the Lead Platform Engineer and provides day-to-day technical guidance and mentorship to mid-level engineers on the team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, or equivalent
• Author, review, and maintain Terraform code for GCP infrastructure provisioning
• Support GKE cluster build-out, workload onboarding, and cluster operations
• Own assigned areas of the observability stack including Splunk integration, monitoring, and alerting
• Manage build artifact storage and versioning using GCP Artifact Registry
• Maintain and improve existing Salesforce/GearSet deployment pipelines
• Maintain SonarQube and GitHub integration for static and dynamic code analysis
• Manage GCP resources including compute, networking, IAM, and secrets management
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, code reviews, and sprint delivery
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to mid-level Platform Engineers
• Contribute to team documentation and participate in on-call rotation

Requirements

• 12+ years of overall IT experience
• 84 months of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure, including designing and operating CI/CD pipelines in production
• 60 months of experience with GCP, including Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, Secret Manager, VPC networking, and IAM
• 60 months of experience with Terraform, including module development, remote state management, and infrastructure migration
• 60 months of experience with GitHub and Git workflows, including branching strategies, pull requests, and webhook integrations
• 48 months of experience with static and dynamic code analysis, including SonarQube (SAST) and OWASP ZAP or equivalent (DAST) within CI/CD pipelines
• 48 months of experience with Splunk for observability, including log forwarding, pipeline integration, and dashboards
• 24 months of experience maintaining Salesforce deployment pipelines using GearSet or equivalent
• 24 months of experience providing technical mentorship to mid-level engineers
• Bachelor’s degree
• Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer, Terraform Associate (HashiCorp), or CKA/CKAD (Kubernetes) certification