Job Description

Job Title: Senior Cloud Engineer (GCP) – Embedded Architecture & Delivery

Location: Minneapolis MN (Onsite)

Duration: 12 Months

Pay: $65/hr on C2C

Job Description:

• We are seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer with deep Google Cloud Platform (GCP) expertise to embed within application development teams and drive high-quality cloud architecture and implementation. This role combines hands-on engineering with architectural leadership ensuring teams select and implement the right GCP services and patterns.
• You will operate as a technical leader across multiple teams owning cloud-related decisions accelerating delivery and raising the overall engineering maturity of our application development organization.

What You’ll Do

• Own and guide GCP architecture decisions for application teams ensuring scalability security and cost-efficiency
• Embed with development teams to accelerate delivery on high-priority initiatives
• Act as a bridge between application teams and platform engineering leveraging shared capabilities while adapting them to real-world needs
• Design and implement infrastructure using Terraform including:
  • Internal enterprise modules
  • Google Cloud Foundation Fabric (CFF) modules
  • Custom extensions where needed
• Contribute directly to delivery with a hands-on approach (50% coding/building)
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and platform issues; serve as a Tier 3 escalation point
• Help define and mature CI/CD and DevSecOps practices using GitLab and enterprise standards
• Guide teams in adopting secure scalable patterns across networking IAM and service design
• Upskill and mentor developers on cloud-native development and infrastructure practices
• Provide pragmatic guidance—balancing best practices with delivery speed

What You Bring

Core Experience

• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in production environments
• Proven ability to design and implement cloud architectures not just operate them
• Deep experience with Terraform in enterprise environments
• Experience working with or extending modular IaC frameworks (e.g. CFF or similar)
• Background supporting or embedding within application development teams

Technical Skills

• GCP services across compute and application platforms (e.g. GKE Cloud Run Compute Engine)
• Strong understanding of:
  • IAM and security design
  • Networking (VPCs connectivity service access)
  • Observability and troubleshooting
• CI/CD experience preferably with GitLab pipelines
• Familiarity with Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) concepts (e.g. Humanitec or similar)

Ways of Working

• Comfortable owning decisions and influencing without authority
• Able to move between teams and contexts quickly
• Strong troubleshooting mindset—able to dig into complex issues and resolve them hands-on
• Passion for mentoring and elevating other engineers
• Pragmatic: knows when to standardize and when to adapt

Nice to Have

• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification
• Experience with Google Cloud Foundation Fabric (CFF)
• Experience building or operating Internal Developer Platforms
• Exposure to DevSecOps and enterprise security practices

Role Characteristics

• 50/50 split between hands-on engineering and architectural guidance
• No on-call responsibilities but acts as a senior escalation point
• Floats across teams with the ability to focus deeply on critical initiatives
• Reports into Application Development leadership while partnering closely with Platform Engineering

Why This Role Matters

• This role is critical to ensuring our application teams can move fast without compromising on architecture security or scalability . You will directly shape how cloud is used across the organization and help teams build the right way from the start.

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