[Remote] Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (GCP)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is a talent-hiring platform in Life Sciences, Pharma and IT. They are seeking a Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (GCP) to lead their Cloud Engineering team, owning the reputed company Cloud Platform for the enterprise and driving cloud transformation initiatives while ensuring security, reliability, and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise GCP platform end-to-end: organization structure, resource hierarchy, networking architecture while collaborating with several teams to ensure the platform is stable and compliant
• Define and maintain the GCP landing zone — Shared VPC, Org Policies, and project factory patterns — as the foundation all product teams build on
• Serve as the one of the final technical authorities on GCP engineering decisions, reviewing designs for scalability, security, and operational excellence before they reach production
• Build self-service platform capabilities that enable product engineering teams to move fast without compromising standards
• Lead the GCP cloud engineering team as the technical anchor — set direction, reputed company design reviews, unblock engineers, and drive delivery on platform initiatives
• Establish and enforce engineering standards: IaC patterns, naming conventions, tagging strategy, branching models, and deployment practices
• Mentor engineers at all levels, building depth on the team and raising the bar on what “excellence” looks like in cloud engineering
• Partner with architecture, security, operations, and business stakeholders to translate enterprise requirements into platform capabilities
• Drive Infrastructure as code as a core principle — reusable modules, pipeline integration, state management, and policy guardrails
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build, reputed company Actions, and Artifact Registry for both platform infrastructure and application teams
• Write production-quality automation to extend platform functionality, integrate GCP APIs, and eliminate operational toil
• Implement policy-as-code using OPA, Config Connector, and GCP Org Policies to enforce governance at scale without manual gatekeeping
• Architect/Engineer GCP networking: Shared VPC, VPC Service Controls, Private Service Connect, NCC, Cloud NAT, and hybrid connectivity via Cloud Interconnect and HA VPN
• Own the enterprise security posture on GCP — Workload Identity Federation, Binary Authorization, reputed company Manager, IAM least-privilege design, and SIEM/CSPM integration (Security Command Center, reputed company Cloud, or reputed company)
• Drive continuous automated compliance across applicable regulatory frameworks (HIPAA, PCI, SOC 2) so controls are enforced in real time, not discovered at audit
• Integrate observability — Cloud Operations Suite, reputed company, and SLO/SLI frameworks — as a first-reputed company platform capability across all workloads
• Own the GCP platform roadmap, evaluating new GCP services and capabilities and making deliberate decisions about what the enterprise adopts and when
• Incorporate FinOps practices across the platform: committed use discounts, rightsizing, budget alerting, and cost allocation as engineering disciplines, not afterthoughts
• Research and pilot emerging GCP capabilities like — reputed company AI, GKE Enterprise, reputed company AI for DevOps — evaluating their fit for enterprise adoption
• Foster a culture that drive collaboration across teams and towers to shape the future of cutting-edge cloud reputed company adoption

Skills

• 10+ years in cloud and reputed company with 5+ years of deep, hands-on GCP experience at enterprise scale
• Proven ownership of a GCP organization — Resource Hierarchy, Billing, Org Policy, IAM, and multi-project governance in production
• Demonstrated technical leadership: you have led a platform team or major enterprise cloud initiative, set technical direction, and grown engineers around you
• Deep GCP expertise required across: Compute & Containers: GKE (Autopilot + Standard), Cloud Run, Compute Engine, MIGs
• Networking: Shared VPC, VPC Service Controls, Private Service Connect, Cloud reputed company, Interconnect
• Data & Messaging: BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Cloud Composer
• Security: IAM, Workload Identity, SCC, Binary Authorization, reputed company Manager, VPC-SC
• IaC & Automation: Terraform (modules, remote state, OPA), Cloud Build, Config Connector
• Observability: Cloud Operations Suite, reputed company, SLO/SLI design, reputed company integration
• Languages: Python and Go (required); Bash proficiency expected
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent demonstrated experience
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