GCP Engineer

Role

GCP Platform Engineer

Memphis, Dallas/Hybrid

Platform Engineering / Infrastructure

We're looking for a Platform Engineer to help build, secure, and scale our infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform. Work across Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, security and compliance, and data platform tooling to keep systems reliable, observable, and easy for product teams to build on. This role sits at the intersection of SRE practices and platform engineering - Spend as much time improving reliability and incident response as you will writing Terraform and hardening IAM policies.

• Design, build, and maintain infrastructure on GCP using Terraform, ensuring environments are reproducible, version-controlled, and easy to audit.
• Operate and improve GKE clusters, including workload scheduling, autoscaling, networking, and container security hardening.
• Apply SRE principles to production systems: define and track SLOs/SLIs, build dashboards and alerting, participate in on-call rotation, and lead or contribute to incident response and postmortems.
• Implement and maintain IAM policies, service account permissions, and security controls aligned with least-privilege principles and compliance requirements (e.g., SOC 2, HIPAA, or similar depending on industry).
• Support and extend our data platform infrastructure, including Big Query datasets, Dataflow pipelines, and related access controls and cost governance.
• Improve observability across the platform using tools like Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Partner with software engineering teams to provide self-service infrastructure patterns, reusable Terraform modules, and clear platform documentation.
• Participate in capacity planning, cost optimization, and disaster recovery planning for GCP workloads.

• 3-5 years of experience in a GCP platform engineering, Dev Ops, SRE, or infrastructure engineering role, with meaningful hands-on experience in GCP specifically (or strong equivalent experience in another major cloud with GCP exposure).
• Solid working knowledge of Kubernetes , including deployments, networking (VPC-native clusters, ingress, network policies), and container security practices.
• Experience writing and maintaining production Terraform code, including module design, state management, and multi-environment workflows.
• Practical understanding of IAM design on GCP: custom roles, service accounts, workload identity, organization policies, and audit logging.
• Familiarity with Big Query and Dataflow (or similar data pipeline tooling), including access controls, cost management, and basic pipeline troubleshooting.
• Experience with SRE practices: SLO/SLI definition, alerting design, on-call participation, and incident postmortems.
• Comfort with scripting (Python, Bash, or Go) for automation and tooling work.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to document systems clearly for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• GCP Professional certifications (Cloud Architect, Dev Ops Engineer, or Security Engineer).
• Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Cloud Build, Git Hub Actions, or Git Lab CI in a GCP context.