Principal Platform Engineer; GCP

Responsibilities

• Direct and oversee infrastructure developments and maintenance to ensure business requirements can be met.
• Drive advances in technologies and architectures to increase value delivered by technology and digital capabilities.
• Recommend and participate in activities related to the design, development, and maintenance of digital capabilities within enterprise architecture.
• Create and manage project storyboards/viewpoints that articulate project requirements and lead to successful implementation.
• Elicit complex project requirements through interviews, document analysis, workshops, and workflow analysis.
• Document complex "as is" and "to be" processes and describe changes required for migration.
• Explore and develop an understanding of external developments or emerging issues and evaluate their potential impact.
• Conduct complex feasibility studies and document findings to complete cost-benefit analyses.
• Support Information Security in detecting, analyzing, and remediating security incidents and vulnerabilities.
• Monitor and review performance within area of responsibility to identify and resolve noncompliance.
• Discuss and recommend innovative technical developments to improve infrastructure platform quality.
• Develop own capabilities through assessments, training, coaching, and professional accreditation.
• Maintain knowledge of technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education.
• Develop business cases to quantify costs, justify investment, and identify ROI.
• Plan and implement professional development actions for the team.
• Provide informal training or coaching to others in the organization.
• Design systems for fault isolation and resolution to limit and address issues promptly.
• Design and monitor the quality of system and component tests and respond to user emails to diagnose performance issues.
• Contribute to the continued improvement of infrastructure automation tooling and processes.
• Participate in after‑hours support, including on‑call responsibilities.
• Contribute to Knowledge Base articles and Standard Operating Procedures to document routine tasks and problems.
• Participate in onboarding and training of new team members.

• Determine and analyze trends from collected data to assist in compiling decision‑making reports.
• Understand business context, needs, rules, architecture, organizational structure, culture, and processes.
• Express user needs in terms of business requirements and identify current capability.
• Conduct build‑or‑buy analyses and recommend preferred approaches.
• Develop effective change strategy based on gap analyses and readiness assessment.
• Conduct gap analysis between current and future states to identify components of the change strategy.
• Design, execute, and report on system/service tests to ensure applications function as specified.
• Interpret, contribute to, or lead business case creation with client departments.
• Create clear and effective reports for various audiences.
• Review and evaluate recommendations and requirements to develop appropriate plans or actions.
• Develop and execute architectures, policies, and practices for information lifecycle management.
• Work directly with Architecture to develop enterprise readiness assessments.
• Adopt solutions to automate and manage applications and functions within the organization.
• Manage infrastructure components such as compute, storage, cloud, network, observability, and tooling/automation.
• Navigate and manage private and public cloud‑based infrastructure (virtual machines, networks, storage, services).
• Experience with infrastructure automation technologies (Ansible, Puppet, Terraform) and scripting/programming in Bash, Power Shell, or Python.
• Delegate tasks and communicate resources clearly, defining success criteria or "definition of done".
• Contribute to quarterly and yearly platform road‑mapping exercises.

• Experience with CI/CD tooling.
• Experience managing containerized infrastructure (Kubernetes, Docker, Cloud Run).
• Experience designing and deploying cloud platforms.
• Experience developing enterprise standards for global workloads across private and public cloud providers.
• Experience with cloud…