Principal Cloud Engineer

We are looking for a Principal Cloud Engineer

We are seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer to join a collaborative, inclusive cloud engineering team focused on building and supporting a modern enterprise cloud environment. In this role, you will develop tools that govern and manage a global Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environment. You will use data-driven continuous improvement to establish best practices, advance cloud maturity, help teams build resilient cloud-native applications, deliver secure and compliant cloud services, and reduce time to market.

Responsibilities:

• Daily scrums: Collaborate with the team to clarify responsibilities, identify issues, and communicate priorities and challenges.
• Collaboration and communication: Help deliver the engineering roadmap, share knowledge, and build a modern enterprise cloud platform for global use.
• Continuous improvement: Respond to evolving technology and customer needs while identifying opportunities to improve platform capabilities and performance.
• Learning and innovation: Explore emerging technologies and open-source communities to identify and apply best practices.
• Platform development and support: Build self-service tools for internal teams, guide cloud-native application development, mentor colleagues, and help troubleshoot production issues.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• At least 10 years of recent experience as a hands-on architect or engineer in the public cloud space.
• Extensive experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Required Skills:

• Regular hands-on coding experience and strong proficiency in Git.
• Experience building enterprise-grade automation tools.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Git.

Preferred Skills:

• Comfortable with cloud governance, observability, and cloud-native application architecture.
• Experience in mentoring, collaboration, and providing measurable insights.