As a Senior Google Cloud Engineer, you'll lead the design, deployment, and optimization of Google Cloud solutions, focusing on performance, reliability, security, and cost-efficiency. You'll play a pivotal role in guiding customers through cloud adoption, implementing automation, and enhancing cloud infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities:
- Cloud Architecture & Deployment:
- Architect, deploy, and optimize Google Cloud solutions.
- Ensure infrastructure scalability, resilience, and cost-efficiency.
- Customer Engagement:
- Lead technical discussions, providing guidance on cloud adoption and optimization.
- Conduct Well-Architected Reviews to improve cloud environments.
- Automation & CI/CD:
- Implement automation using Terraform, Cloud Build, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Optimize deployment processes for efficiency.
- Kubernetes & Microservices:
- Manage and optimize Kubernetes (GKE), Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, and Compute Engine.
- Support microservices architectures for scalability.
- Security & Compliance:
- Oversee cloud security using Google Security Command Center, IAM, and VPC Service Controls.
- Implement best practices for data protection and compliance.
- Mentorship & Leadership:
- Mentor junior engineers, providing technical leadership and guidance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (sales, product, customer success) to align solutions with business goals.
- Incident Management:
- Participate in an on-call rotation to support critical operations and incident management.
Qualifications:
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field (or equivalent experience).
- Master’s degree + 2 years of experience or 8+ years in a related role also acceptable.
Technical Skills:
- Proficiency with Google Cloud services: Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, VPC networking.
- Strong scripting skills: Python, Bash, PowerShell.
- Expertise in Kubernetes (GKE), Docker, microservices architecture.
- Experience with IaC tools like Terraform or Deployment Manager.
- CI/CD tools: Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD.
- Cloud security best practices (IAM, compliance frameworks).
Preferred Skills:
- Multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, hybrid cloud).
- Experience with Google Anthos.
- Familiarity with JIRA, Confluence, agile methodologies