Senior Lead GCP Platform Engineer

We are seeking an experienced GCP Platform Engineer with expertise in designing and implementing centralized observability solutions across multiple Google Cloud Platform GCP projects using Terraform The ideal candidate will build scalable cloud platform capabilities automate operational processes and establish enterprise wide monitoring logging alerting and operational visibility standards

Key Responsibilities:
GCP Platform Engineering:

• Design build and maintain enterprise scale cloud platform services on Google Cloud Platform

• Develop reusable platform capabilities standards and automation frameworks

• Implement Infrastructure as Code IaC using Terraform

• Support cloud governance IAM networking security and compliance requirements

• Drive platform reliability scalability and operational excellence
  

Observability Monitoring:

• Design and implement centralized observability architecture across multiple GCP projects and environments

• Build enterprise monitoring logging tracing and alerting solutions using GCP native and third party observability tools

• Centralize logs metrics traces dashboards and alerts across development test and production environments

• Define observability standards SLISLOs alerting strategies and operational runbooks

• Create executive operational and application health dashboards

• Establish monitoring coverage for cloud infrastructure

• Develop solutions for automated alert management reporting and operational analytics
  

Platform Reliability Operations:

• Partner with development and operations teams to improve system reliability

• Conduct root cause analysis and incident investigations

• Optimize monitoring coverage while reducing alert fatigue

• Support production operations and platform upgrades

• Drive continuous improvement of operational processes and platform observability
  
  

Required Technical Skills:

• Google Cloud Platform Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Monitoring Google Cloud Logging

• Managed Service for Prometheus Cloud Trace Cloud Profiler Cloud Audit Logs

• PubSub Cloud Storage BigQuery Cloud Functions Cloud Run GKE Google Kubernetes Engine

• IAM Shared VPC Organizationlevel monitoring configurations Observability Platforms

• DevOps Automation Terraform GitGitHub CICD pipelines Kubernetes

• Experience with one or more Datadog Splunk Dynatrace Grafana Prometheus OpenTelemetry
  
  

Required Experience:

• 5 years of cloud platform engineering experience

• 3 years of hands-on Google Cloud Platform experience

• 3 years of Python development and automation experience

• Experience implementing centralized observability solutions across multiple cloud accounts projects

• Experience with enterprise monitoring logging alerting and operational analytics

• Experience supporting Kubernetes based platforms
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing organization wide observability frameworks

• Experience implementing Open Telemetry standards

• Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering SRE practices

• Experience with FinOps and cloud cost optimization

• Experience supporting data platforms and AIML workloads

• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification

• Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer certification
  
  

Key Deliverables:

• Enterprise wide observability architecture across GCP projects

• Centralized monitoring and logging platform

• Automated project onboarding to observability services

• Standardized dashboards alerts and operational metrics

• Improved platform reliability and reduced incident response times

• Python based automation framework for cloud operations
  
  

Keywords:

• GCP Google Cloud Monitoring Cloud Logging Python Terraform OpenTelemetry Datadog Grafana Prometheus GKE Cloud Run SRE Observability Monitoring Logging Alerting Platform Engineering DevOps Cloud Automation MultiProject GCP Management

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $41.61/hour - $65.01/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.

Salary : $42 - $65