Google Cloud Platform - Engineering Manager

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Job Summary
The Cloud Engineering Manager provides technical leadership and people management for a team responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable, secure, and highly available cloud platforms. This role combines hands-on cloud architecture expertise, Infrastructure as Code, and Dev Sec Ops  practices with strong coaching, mentoring, and delivery leadership. The Cloud Engineering Manager partners closely with application teams, security, and enterprise architecture to ensure cloud solutions align with organizational standards, target-state architecture, and business outcomes.

• Define and evolve cloud architecture standards, patterns, and reference implementations across public, private, and hybrid environments.
• Lead the design and review of cloud-native solutions across IaaS, PaaS, and containerized platforms.
• Ensure platforms and applications are designed for high availability, resilience, scalability, and disaster recovery.
• Act as a subject-matter expert for cloud networking, provisioning, automation, and platform services.
• Evaluate new cloud services, tools, and architectural approaches, providing clear recommendations with trade-offs.

• Lead the adoption and governance of Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, ARM, Cloud Formation, or equivalent.
• Drive Dev Sec Ops  practices, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, security scanning, and policy-as-code.
• Ensure secure handling of credentials, certificates, encryption, and key rotation.
• Partner with security teams to embed risk-based controls and compliance into cloud platforms.
• Partner with risk, security, compliance, and audit teams to support internal and external exams.
• Guide cost-efficient cloud usage, including monitoring, optimization, and financial transparency.

• Manage, mentor, and develop a team of cloud platform and Site Reliability engineers.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Provide coaching, career development guidance, and regular performance feedback.
• Build and maintain a high-performing, collaborative engineering team.

• Align cloud engineering initiatives with enterprise architecture and business strategy.
• Partner with application, product, and infrastructure teams to support mergers, migrations, modernization, and new product delivery.
• Communicate architectural decisions, standards, and roadmaps clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to the organization’s long-term cloud vision and platform roadmap.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of experience across multiple IT disciplines such as cloud architecture, application development, infrastructure, or operations.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating workloads on at least one major public cloud platform.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and automated cloud provisioning.
• Design and governance of reusable IaC modules published via private registries and consumed through CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience leading or contributing to Dev Sec Ops  tool chains and practices.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking, security, identity, and access management.
• Proven ability to lead teams and influence across organizational boundaries.

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as the primary cloud provider.
• Terraform or Open Tofu as the standard Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
• Harness Software Delivery Platform used for CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning.
• Git Hub as the primary source code repository.
• Azure Dev Ops Services (ADO) boards, wiki, etc.
• Cloud architecture or engineering certifications.
• Experience in regulated or financial-services environments.
• Knowledge of containers, Kubernetes, and serverless architectures.
• Experience with application and infrastructure monitoring and observability tools.
• Background in application modernization, migration strategies, or platform engineering.
• Prior experience as a technical lead or engineering…