Principal Cloud Engineer (GCP Lead Azure Secondary)

Principal Cloud Engineer (GCP Lead / Azure Secondary)

Plano TX (local only)

Onsite Only NO REMOTE OPTION

Job Description:

To serve as the primary architect for our GCP ecosystem while maintaining seamless integration and governance over our Azure footprint. You will lead the Infrastructure as Code strategy ensuring a unified automated deployment lifecycle across both providers.

Key Responsibilities

Primary GCP Architecture: Own the full lifecycle of Google Cloud infrastructure focusing on high availability security and cost-optimization.

Secondary Azure Governance: Manage and integrate Azure resources ensuring cross-cloud connectivity and identity management align with primary GCP standards.

IaC Standardization: Architect and maintain enterprise-scale Terraform modules specifically optimized for GCP and Azure resource provisioning.

Kubernetes Orchestration: Lead the scaling and security of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) managing complex networking and cluster lifecycles.

CI/CD Leadership: Design robust automated deployment workflows using GitHub Actions for multi-environment delivery.

Custom Automation: Develop Python scripts to automate cloud-native tasks monitoring and resource cleanup. Technical Requirements

10 Years Experience: Extensive background in Cloud Engineering DevOps or SRE.

GCP Specialist: Deep expertise in Vertex AI VPCs IAM and GKE (Professional Cloud Architect preferred).

Azure Competency: Strong working knowledge of Azure basics (AD VNet VMs and Storage) as a secondary cloud.

Terraform Expert: Mastery of state management and modular design for multi-cloud environments.

Automation: Expert-level GitHub Actions and Python for DevOps tooling.