Sr GCP Cloud Platform Engineer
About the role
The Senior GCP Cloud Platform Engineer will join the IT Engineering team during a pivotal phase of the GCP journey. This role will partner closely with the development teams to support the cloud environment shift from manual-heavy operations to a fully automated infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Lead the transition from manual infrastructure management to a fully automated CI/CD lifecycle in Azure DevOps, bridging the current state to push-button deployments.
- Own the Terraform and Ansible ecosystem to ensure changes are made through code, reducing manual tweaks and eliminating configuration drift.
- Act as the senior voice with the engineering team to establish standards, share best practices, and guide decisions on adopting new tools.
- Help architect the next phase of infrastructure by moving services into modern, elastic environments that support high availability and self-healing.
- Lead container strategy by selecting workloads ready for orchestration, setting image standards, and ensuring consistent deployment patterns.
- Define critical system health metrics with the team and participate in the on-call rotation to keep 24/7 delivery services operational and resilient.
Requirements
- 5+ years in Cloud Infrastructure, Systems Engineering, or Platform Operations
- Strong Linux administration skills; a “Linux-first” troubleshooter comfortable at the command line when deployments fail
- Proven experience building and managing automated release flows in Azure DevOps (e.g., Pipelines/Releases/Boards)
- High proficiency with Terraform and Ansible, including organizing existing code into a professional, modular library
- Strong understanding of the “why” and “how” behind containerization, including evaluating when workloads should move to a managed container platform vs. staying on VMs
- Ability to understand application dependencies and troubleshoot build/deployment errors to unblock developers in mixed environments
Qualifications
- Ability to balance modernization decisions pragmatically, helping teams choose between containers and VMs based on what each workload needs
Skills
- Hands-on experience managing Google Cloud (GCP) environments, specifically Shared VPCs, IAM hierarchies, and Cloud SQL
- High proficiency with Terraform and Ansible, including organizing existing code into a professional, modular library
- Strong understanding of the “why” and “how” behind containerization, including evaluating when workloads should move to a managed container platform vs. staying on VMs
- Ability to understand application dependencies and troubleshoot build/deployment errors to unblock developers in mixed environments
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Life and short- and long-term disability coverage
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match
- Flex vacation in states other than CA, CO, IL, MA, MT, and NE, with accruals up to 96 hours for first year of employment with tenure-based increases up to 160 hours
- Two (2) floating holidays per year
- Paid sick leave*
- Six (6) paid company holidays
- Two (2) weeks paid pregnancy disability leave, four (4) weeks paid parental bonding leave
- Additional wellness and employee assistance programs
Pay
The expected starting base pay range for this position is $104,800. – $131,000. with full potential base salary range over a successful candidate’s tenure in the position of $104,800. – $157,200. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, skills, internal equity, and other job-related factors.
Schedule
This position may be performed remotely in states where the company is authorized to employ individuals.
Posting Timeline
This job posting is anticipated to remain open for at least 15 days from the date of posting
Disclosures
Washington state employees are eligible for up to 56 hours of paid sick leave annually.