W2: GCP Platform engineer Jersey City, New Jersey(Onsite)

We are supporting a large-scale cloud platform engineering initiative for a client. This is not a traditional DevOps or application engineering role. This role focuses on building and governing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments at scale - establishing secure foundations, enabling platform capabilities, and supporting internal engineering teams. You will play a key role in designing and implementing cloud landing zones, identity models, and infrastructure automation frameworks that will support enterprise-wide adoption of GCP. What You'll Be Doing Year 1 Focus (Current Phase)

• Design and build GCP landing zones (org, folders, projects)
• Implement IAM, security policies, and governance controls
• Develop Terraform-based infrastructure modules
• Enable secure platform services and automation frameworks
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployment
• Support event-driven and internal platform services
• Automate operational workflows using Python or scripting

Year 2 Evolution (Future State)

• Support expansion into containerized platforms (GKE / Kubernetes)

• Enable scalable compute and application workloads

• Contribute to AI and data platform capabilities

• Help scale platform usage across multiple engineering teams, Modern Engineering Expectations We are looking for engineers who are comfortable leveraging AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity. This includes:

• Tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, or similar

• Using AI for:

• Code generation

• Infrastructure templates

• Test creation

• Documentation

• Pull request creation and review

Role Breakdown

• 70% Infrastructure Engineering (Terraform, GCP, IAM)
• 30% Development & Automation (Python, scripting, tooling)

What This Role Is NOT To ensure alignment, this role is not a fit for candidates who are primarily:

• Data engineers (BigQuery, Spark, ETL-heavy roles)
• Application developers
• DevOps engineers without platform ownership experience

Why This Role?

• Be part of a ground-up GCP platform build
• Work on enterprise-scale cloud architecture
• Influence how cloud is adopted across a major organization
• Engage with modern engineering practices, including AI-assisted workflows

• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• Deep experience with Terraform as a primary IaC tool

• Experience designing or managing:

• GCP org / folder / project structures

• IAM roles, policies, and service accounts

• Experience implementing security and governance frameworks

• Experience building or supporting CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure

• Proficiency with Python or scripting for automation

Preferred Experience

• Experience in enterprise or regulated environments (financial services a plus)
• Experience building or contributing to cloud landing zones
• Exposure to platform engineering or internal developer platforms
• Familiarity with GCP networking (Shared VPC, connectivity models)