Google Cloud Platform Cloud Engineer

This role combines hands-on engineering with architectural leadership, ensuring teams select and implement the right Google Cloud Platform services and patterns. You will operate as a technical leader across multiple teams, owning cloud-related decisions, accelerating delivery, and raising the overall engineering maturity of our application development organization., * Own and guide Google Cloud Platform architecture decisions for application teams, ensuring scalability, security, and cost-efficiency

• Embed with development teams to accelerate delivery on high-priority initiatives
• Act as a bridge between application teams and platform engineering, leveraging shared capabilities while adapting them to real-world needs
• Design and implement infrastructure using Terraform, including:

• Internal enterprise modules
• Google Cloud Foundation Fabric (CFF) modules
• Custom extensions where needed

• Contribute directly to delivery with a hands-on approach (~50% coding/building)
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and platform issues; serve as a Tier 3 escalation point
• Help define and mature CI/CD and DevSecOps practices using GitLab and enterprise standards
• Guide teams in adopting secure, scalable patterns across networking, IAM, and service design
• Upskill and mentor developers on cloud-native development and infrastructure practices
• Provide pragmatic guidance-balancing best practices with delivery speed

• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) in production environments
• Proven ability to design and implement cloud architectures, not just operate them
• Deep experience with Terraform in enterprise environments
• Experience working with or extending modular IaC frameworks (e.g., CFF or similar)
• Background supporting or embedding within application development teams, + IAM and security design

• Networking (VPCs, connectivity, service access)
• Observability and troubleshooting

• CI/CD experience, preferably with GitLab pipelines
• Familiarity with Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) concepts (e.g., Humanitec or similar), * Comfortable owning decisions and influencing without authority
• Able to move between teams and contexts quickly
• Strong troubleshooting mindset-able to dig into complex issues and resolve them hands-on
• Passion for mentoring and elevating other engineers
• Pragmatic: knows when to standardize and when to adapt, * Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification
• Experience with Google Cloud Foundation Fabric (CFF)
• Experience building or operating Internal Developer Platforms
• Exposure to DevSecOps and enterprise security practices, * 50/50 split between hands-on engineering and architectural guidance
• No on-call responsibilities, but acts as a senior escalation point
• Floats across teams, with the ability to focus deeply on critical initiatives
• Reports into Application Development leadership while partnering closely with Platform Engineering