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# Google Cloud Platform Cloud Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Mayfield Heights
- **Location:** Houston, TX, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Audit Trail, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Federated Identity Management, Identity and Access Management, Azure Active Directory, Data Logging, Google Cloud, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Terraform
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/1dffbf0c-14b1-4495-9d32-d17b176752d3

## About the Role

* Hands-on Google Cloud Platform platform engineering experience, including Cloud Identity, IAM, org policy, VPC networking, and billing administration.

 * Identity federation experience with Microsoft Entra ID, SSO, and MFA.

 * Infrastructure as code proficiency with Terraform.

 * Working knowledge of cloud security posture management and log and monitoring centralization.

 * Experience taking a cloud environment from POC to enterprise-governed state.

Preferred

 * Experience operating a second cloud (Azure) at enterprise scale.

 * FinOps and chargeback model experience.

 * Familiarity with Wiz, CrowdStrike, and manufacturing or regulated enterprise environments.

Engagement Contract-to-hire. Initial focus is landing zone buildout and enterprise readiness, with potential conversion to support ongoing Google Cloud Platform platform operations.

## Description

* Design and deploy an enterprise landing zone covering organization, folder, and project structure, IAM, connectivity, logging, and security integrations, aligned to landing zone best practices.

 * Migrate unmanaged Google accounts to managed identities and implement Entra-to-Google identity sync with full SSO and MFA.

 * Consolidate projects into a single billing account to enable FinOps invoicing and chargeback.

 * Establish network guardrails including public IP blocking policies, centralized VPCs and hub architecture, and private access and endpoints.

 * Centralize audit logging and monitoring and integrate enterprise security tooling such as Wiz and CrowdStrike.

 * Implement platform components as code (Terraform) with reusable, secure, policy-enforced modules.

 * Document standards and operational runbooks to support handoff to platform and cloud operations teams.


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