Google Cloud Engineer

Google Cloud Engineer

We are looking for a Google Cloud Engineer to support secure, scalable, and reliable cloud environments for teams building advanced technology solutions in Salt Lake City, Utah. This is a Contract position focused on strengthening production infrastructure, improving automation, and enabling high-performing engineering and data workflows on Google Cloud. The ideal candidate brings deep experience with a systems administration or applications background compared to only Dev Ops experience.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, deploy, and support production services on Google Cloud with an emphasis on resilience, security, performance, and cost efficiency.

• Build and maintain infrastructure components across compute, storage, databases, messaging, serverless platforms, and Kubernetes-based environments.

• Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows to provision, validate, and release infrastructure and application changes safely.

• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and establish guardrails that reduce risk, improve consistency, and support controlled change management.

• Strengthen cloud foundations by defining and applying standards for identity access, private networking, firewall controls, secrets management, and data protection.

• Improve platform observability through monitoring, logging, tracing, and cost reporting, and use insights to optimize service health and operational visibility.

• Respond to incidents, investigate root causes, refine alerting and service objectives, and improve backup, recovery, and capacity planning practices.

• Partner with security, platform, data, and application teams to review architecture decisions, operational readiness, and risk before production launches.

• Guide engineering teams on Google Cloud best practices, sustainable operational processes, and effective use of automation across the delivery lifecycle.