Senior GCP Cloud Engineer
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior GCP Cloud Engineer to design, implement, govern, and support scalable, secure, highly available, and automated cloud platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The role requires deep technical expertise in GCP services, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), cloud reliability engineering, networking, containerization, and production operations.
The ideal candidate will act as a senior technical leader responsible for defining reference architectures, driving platform reliability, governing cloud standards across multiple projects, and mentoring engineering teams while collaborating closely with architects, development teams, and stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
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Design, implement, and govern scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure across GCP environments (Development, Testing, UAT, Pre-Production, Production).
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Define and maintain reusable reference architectures and platform standards for GCP services and cloud-native deployments.
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Build enterprise-grade architectures using GCP services such as:
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GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions
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BigQuery, Bigtable, Cloud SQL, Spanner
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Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Memorystore, Artifact Registry
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Configure and manage networking components including:
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VPCs, Shared VPC, Private Service Connect, VPC Peering
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Load Balancers, Cloud DNS, Cloud Armor, Firewall Rules
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VPN and Interconnect connectivity solutions
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Drive standardization and consistency of cloud platform implementations across multiple projects and teams.
Reliability Engineering & Production Operations
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Lead reliability engineering initiatives to improve platform stability, resiliency, scalability, and fault tolerance.
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Establish and enforce operational best practices for monitoring, alerting, incident management, and disaster recovery.
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Conduct production readiness reviews (PRRs) for recent applications, services, and p
📌 Senior GCP Cloud Engineer (India)
🏢 Photon
📍 India