GCP Platform Engineer

Location: Jersey City, NJ (5 days onsite)

6 months

Position Overview

Client is seeking a GCP Platform Engineer to support and evolve a large‑scale Google Cloud Platform environment. This is a hands‑on platform engineering role focused on building, operating, and maintaining shared cloud infrastructure that application and service teams depend on.

The ideal candidate is a platform‑minded engineer who takes ownership of cloud foundations—networking, identity, infrastructure as code, and deployment pipelines—ensuring reliability, security, and operational excellence across multiple environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and operate the GCP platform foundation, including infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD enablement, and operational support.
• Manage and support CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments.
• Use Terraform as the source of truth to provision, manage, and evolve GCP infrastructure.
• Design, maintain, and execute operational runbooks.
• Operate and support core GCP services across compute, networking, storage, and identity.
• Support event‑driven and messaging architectures.
• Act as an escalation point for platform‑level issues.
• Partner with security and compliance stakeholders.
• Enable application teams with stable, scalable platform capabilities.

Required Qualifications

• Strong hands‑on experience with Terraform.
• Deep understanding of GCP (Org, Folders, Projects, IAM, Networking, Compute, Storage).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tooling.
• Experience operating production GCP environments.