GCP Lead Cloud Engineer

Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services. We are in search of a highly motivated candidate to join our talented Team.

Job Title: GCP Lead Cloud Engineer

Location(s): Chicago, IL
(Remote)


Job Summary
The Cloud Technical Lead is responsible for delivering secure, resilient, automated, and cost-effective cloud and platform services that support enterprise workloads. This role combines cloud and platform engineering expertise, technical leadership, disciplined delivery, and effective stakeholder engagement to achieve secure, supportable, and measurable outcomes.

The role collaborates with business, delivery, engineering, operations, security, and supplier teams to ensure effective cloud service delivery, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, governance, prioritization, stakeholder alignment, and accountability for team or service performance.
• Design, build, configure, and maintain cloud and platform services using repeatable engineering standards.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, and recovery through infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement and maintain security, identity, networking, resilience, observability, and cloud cost-management controls.
• Troubleshoot platform issues and drive improvements in reliability, performance, scalability, and supportability.
• Establish priorities, clarify accountability, coach team members, and provide concise updates and recommendations to governance forums.
• Ensure compliance with organizational security, privacy, risk, compliance, change management, and documentation requirements.
• Define and track meaningful performance measures and use evidence, feedback, and lessons learned to drive continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support enterprise cloud workloads and maintain effective service delivery.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of relevant experience in cloud and platform engineering or a closely related technical environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of engineering methods, tools, controls, and lifecycle practices relevant to cloud technical leadership.
• Experience working in complex enterprise environments involving multiple technical teams, service providers, and stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage priorities, risks, dependencies, and deadlines while maintaining quality and customer focus.
• Proven ability to lead technical decisions, influence senior stakeholders, and establish accountability across organizational boundaries.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting large-scale transformation, transition, modernization, or managed-service environments.
• Knowledge of ITIL, Agile, DevOps, SIAM, and continual-improvement practices.
• Experience working in regulated, security-conscious, or contractually governed environments.
• Familiarity with cloud automation, analytics, and modern cloud-enabled service-delivery practices.

Certifications
Preferred certifications include:

• Role-relevant Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, or AWS certification.
• Kubernetes or Terraform certification, where applicable.
• ITIL Foundation certification.

Key Competencies

• Cloud and platform engineering
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Infrastructure as code and automation
• CI/CD and DevOps practices
• Cloud security, resilience, and observability
• Technical troubleshooting and problem resolution
• Technical leadership and decision-making
• Stakeholder communication and collaboration
• Risk, issue, and dependency management
• Governance and service delivery
• Continuous improvement

Ampcus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.