GCP Cloud Platform Engineer

Summary

The Cloud Platform Engineer is responsible for implementing all GCP resources using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), establishing CI / CD pipelines for automated infrastructure testing and deployment, and configuring comprehensive monitoring that ensures 99.9% platform availability. This role is critical to preventing configuration drift, security vulnerabilities, and deployment failures that cause production outages at enterprise scale. The Platform Engineer ensures infrastructure changes are tested, version-controlled, and reversible, enabling rapid, safe deployment of security updates and platform enhancements critical for maintaining HIPAA compliance and healthcare operations availability.

Required Qualifications

Infrastructure as Code Expertise

• 5+ years of cloud infrastructure engineering experience with at least 2+ years focused on Infrastructure as Code
• Expert-level Terraform proficiency including :
• Advanced module development with complex dependencies
• State management, workspaces, and remote backends
• Provider configuration and version pinning
• Resource lifecycle management and import procedures
• Terraform Cloud or Enterprise experience (preferred)
• Experience implementing CI / CD for infrastructure using Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions
• Strong understanding of infrastructure automation patterns and DevOps practices
• Proficiency with Git including branching strategies, pull requests, and code review workflows

Google Cloud Platform Experience

Monitoring & Observability

DevOps & SRE Practices

Scripting & Programming

Preferred Qualifications