Cloud Engineer
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Job description
As a Senior Associate Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure solutions to ensure high availability, scalability, and security. You will work closely with engineering teams to optimize cloud environments and support business-critical applications. Your Impact
The Cloud Infrastructure (GCP) Engineer role focuses day to day on designing and implementing scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure and platform services on GCP., * Build and maintain pipelines for deploying applications to GCP like Jenkins, harness .
- Enable automated testing, canary releases, and blue-green deployments.
- Integrate with artifact repositories (Artifact Registry, Container Registry).
Containers & Orchestration
- Deploy, monitor, and scale applications onGoogle Kubernetes Engine (GKE) .
- Manage Helm charts, Kubernetes manifests, and operators.
- Apply policies withOPA/Gatekeeper/Kubernetes security best practices.
Security & Compliance
- Applyleast privilege IAM roles and manage secrets withSecret Manager or HashiCorp Vault.
- Secure GKE workloads withWorkload Identity, Binary Authorization, Shielded VMs, VPC Service Controls.
- Nice to have Ensure compliance withCIS, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, or SOC2 depending on industry.
Cost Optimization
- Monitor and optimize GCP billing usingBudgets, Cost Explorer, and Recommender APIs.
- Implement rightsizing for Compute Engine, GKE nodes, and storage.
- Use preemptible VMs and autoscaling where applicable
Collaboration & Process
- Work with developers to containerize and deploy applications.
- Document infrastructure, processes, and incident response runbooks.
- Participate in on-call rotations and disaster recovery planning
Requirements
Cloud Infrastructure (GCP)
- Experience designing and implementing scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure and platform services on GCP.
- Experience with designing and implementing Google foundations/landing zones.
- Managing core services: Compute Engine, Kubernetes (GKE), Cloud Functions, GCP IAM etc.
- Design and configure networking: VPC, subnets, Cloud Load Balancers, Cloud CDN, VPNs, Interconnects.
- Manage GCP IAM roles, service accounts, and organizational policies.
- Implement storage solutions using Cloud Storage, Filestore, Persistent Disks, and BigQuery (for infra logs/monitoring).
Automation & IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
- Use advancedTerraform (preferred )with Terratest for infrastructure provisioning.
- Ability to write reusable terraform modules
- Automate workflows withCloud Build, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
- Develop scripts inPython, Bash, or Go for automation and cloud integrations.
Benefits & conditions
Annual Pay Range- USD $113000-160000
The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work.
An inclusive workplace that promotes diversity and collaboration.
- Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities.
- Competitive compensation and benefits package.
- Flexibility to support work-life balance.
- Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family.
- Generous paid leave and holidays.
- Wellness program and employee assistance.
