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# Senior/Lead GCP Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Capgemini
- **Location:** Atlanta, GA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $105,000.0 - $115,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Audit Trail, BigQuery, Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, Profiling, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Github, Monitoring of Systems, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering Practices, Cloud Services, Prometheus, Datadog, Data Logging, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, Cloud Monitoring, System Availability, Grafana, Reliability of Systems, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Deployment Automation, Google Cloud Functions, Data Management, Cloud Optimization, Terraform, Splunk, Artificial Intelligence Markup Language (AIML), Dynatrace
- **Published:** August 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=fc1a41f2f5e507b7

## About the Role

* Google Cloud Platform Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Monitoring and Google Cloud Logging
 * Managed Service for Prometheus, Cloud Trace, Cloud Profiler and Cloud Audit Logs
 * Experience with Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine).
 * Experience with IAM, Shared VPC, Organization level monitoring configurations, Observability Platforms.
 * DevOps Automation, Terraform, Git/GitHub, CICD pipelines, Kubernetes
 * Experience with one or more Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry., * 5 years of cloud platform engineering experience
 * 3 years of hands-on Google Cloud Platform experience
 * 3 years of Python development and automation experience
 * Experience implementing centralized observability solutions across multiple cloud accounts projects
 * Experience with enterprise monitoring logging alerting and operational analytics
 * Experience supporting Kubernetes based platforms, * Experience designing organization wide observability frameworks
 * Experience implementing OpenTelemetry standards
 * Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering SRE practices
 * Experience with FinOps and cloud cost optimization
 * Experience supporting data platforms and AIML workloads
 * Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification
 * Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer certification

Key Deliverables

 * Enterprise wide observability architecture across GCP projects
 * Centralized monitoring and logging platform
 * Automated project onboarding to observability services
 * Standardized dashboards alerts and operational metrics
 * Improved platform reliability and reduced incident response times
 * Python based automation framework for cloud operations

## Description

GCP Platform Engineering

 * Design build and maintain enterprise scale cloud platform services on Google Cloud Platform
 * Develop reusable platform capabilities standards and automation frameworks
 * Implement Infrastructure as Code IaC using Terraform
 * Support cloud governance IAM networking security and compliance requirements
 * Drive platform reliability scalability and operational excellence

Observability Monitoring

 * Design and implement centralized observability architecture across multiple GCP projects and environments
 * Build enterprise monitoring logging tracing and alerting solutions using GCP native and third-party observability tools
 * Centralize logs metrics traces dashboards and alerts across development test and production environments
 * Define observability standards SLISLOs alerting strategies and operational runbooks
 * Create executive operational and application health dashboards
 * Establish monitoring coverage for cloud infrastructure
 * Develop solutions for automated alert management reporting and operational analytics

Platform Reliability Operations

 * Partner with development and operations teams to improve system reliability
 * Conduct root cause analysis and incident investigations
 * Optimize monitoring coverage while reducing alert fatigue
 * Support production operations and platform upgrades
 * Drive continuous improvement of operational processes and platform observability


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