Google Cloud Engineer

• Administer GCP organizations, folders, projects, and billing.
• Manage IAM roles, service accounts, and access controls using least-privilege.
• Configure and maintain VPCs, firewall rules, VPNs, and hybrid connectivity.
• Monitor platform health using Cloud Monitoring, Logging, and Alerting.
• Troubleshoot production issues and perform root-cause analysis across environments.
• Design, deploy, and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and Deployment Manager where applicable.
• Automate operations using Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Workflows, and Cloud Scheduler.
• Develop and maintain Python and shell scripts to reduce manual effort.
• Support on-premises to GCP and cloud-to-cloud migrations including planning and execution.
• Analyze workloads and dependencies, and execute data, application, and infrastructure migrations.
• Support cutovers, post-migration stabilization, and optimization.
• Integrate GCP with identity platforms, CI/CD pipelines, SaaS, and internal applications.
• Support API-based and event-driven integrations using REST and Pub/Sub.
• Collaborate with security, networking, and application teams on hybrid and multi-cloud patterns.
• Support applications on Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, and App Engine.
• Assist with environment provisioning, deployment pipelines, and performance tuning.
• Review architectures for scalability, resilience, security, and cost efficiency.
• Strong plus: support data platforms such as BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, and Dataflow.

Our client seeks a mid-level Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Engineer to administer and support production GCP environments, drive automation, and assist with migration initiatives. The role emphasizes hands-on engineering across IAM, networking, monitoring, Infrastructure as Code, integration, and application support. Experience with data engineering and analytics platforms is a strong plus. Candidates must be able to work onsite full time. Remote options may be considered based on skills, qualifications, and availability during the 7AM-7PM Eastern support window.

Due to federal security clearance requirements, applicant must be a United States Citizen or Permanent Resident with an active Public Trust clearance. This is a contract to hire opportunity. Applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis and convert to FTE following contract duration. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance., * 3-6 years of hands-on experience working with Google Cloud Platform in production.

• Proven experience administering and supporting core GCP services.
• Operational experience with IAM, networking, monitoring, and incident response.
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and scripting in Python and/or shell.
• Experience supporting migrations and post-migration optimization.
• Strong plus: exposure to data engineering and analytics workloads.
• Active Public Trust or ability to obtain a Public Trust is a strong plus.

Education Requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• Google Cloud certifications are a plus but not required.