Cloud Platform Specialist

Platform Ownership & Governance

• Define and maintain GCP usage guardrails (access, environments, policies).
• Lead platform roadmap and release planning with a product mindset.
• Own FinOps practices: budgeting, tagging, cost tracking, and optimization coaching.

Infrastructure Enablement

• Provide secure, scalable network design patterns.
• Collaborate with the CISO to enforce "security by default" principles.
• Deliver reusable templates and checklists for infrastructure provisioning.

Data Platform Enablement

• Define standards for data storage, security, quality, and lineage.
• Support platforms like BigQuery and Vertex AI with practical enablement.

Integration & API Standards

• Establish approved patterns for APIs and event-driven architectures.
• Govern lifecycle, versioning, and security of integrations.

Operational Excellence

• Define service levels, alerting, and dashboards for platform health.
• Lead incident coordination and post-mortems; drive preventive actions.

Access & Identity

• Implement robust single sign-on and least-privilege access controls.

Compliance & Risk

• Translate ISO/SOC requirements into actionable platform checks.
• Manage change and risk through lightweight design reviews and exception handling.

Hard Skills

• Proven hands-on engineering experience in cloud infrastructure (preferably GCP).
• Strong knowledge of Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Familiarity with hybrid cloud integrations (on-prem, SAP, other clouds).
• Experience with FinOps, security frameworks, and audit readiness.

Soft Skills

• Strategic mindset with ability to treat GCP as a product.
• Clear communicator with ability to explain technical risk and cost in plain terms.
• Decisive governance and stakeholder management across multiple teams.
• Calm under pressure, especially during incidents and escalations.
• Vendor management experience with cloud providers and support partners., * GCP Professional certifications (e.g., Cloud Architect, DevOps Engineer).
• Experience in retail or ecommerce environments.
• Familiarity with data enablement tools.