What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Platform Engineer position at FreshDirect?
Brief Description
At FreshDirect, we are reinventing the grocery experience.
Since day one, our mission has been simple: bring the best, freshest food directly from the farm to people’s homes — faster, fresher, and smarter than anyone else.
We’re not just a food company. We’re a technology-powered, customer-obsessed team building one of the most innovative end-to-end food supply chains in the industry. From proprietary routing systems to our state-of-the-art fulfillment center, every part of our business is designed to deliver unmatched quality, convenience, and care.
We partner directly with farmers, fishermen, and artisans to source the highest quality ingredients — then use smart data, automation, and logistics to deliver them at peak freshness.
It’s grocery shopping reimagined — and we’re just getting started.
If you’re passionate about innovation, care deeply about what people eat, and want to help build the future of food, we’d love to meet you.
Join FreshDirect’s System engineering team in New York, USA
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer to join our System Engineering team. You will be responsible for supporting our growing GCP environment including helping migrate workloads from on-prem data centers to the cloud, and defining, implementing, and supporting best practices and standards across the GCP environment. You will also collaborate with other team members and help support internal customers and applications.
What You’ll Do
We live these values every day:
A Passion for our customers
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do. We listen, innovate, and act quickly to exceed expectations with every order and interaction.
One team, one mission
Everyone contributes & every role matters. We break silos, lift each other up, and share a relentless focus on delivering results. That way, we win together.
Delivering excellence, every time
We take pride in the quality of our food, service, and the experience we create. Our team goes above and beyond to earn trust and guarantee 100% freshness.
Act with integrity
We operate with honesty, respect, and accountability in how we treat our customers, teammates, and partners. We own our outcomes and always do what’s right, even when no one is watching.
Make fast, bold decisions
We challenge the status quo, embrace technology, and take smart risks to build a better future. At the same time, we stay true to our NYC roots and care for our community.
We love food. Yes, literally all of us.
What You’ll Love About Working Here
$135,000 – $160,000
Total Rewards & Benefits
We embrace an in-office culture, composed of individuals who thrive on the collaboration and energy that comes from working together in a shared space. We are looking for people who excel in this environment, where physical presence enhances connections and engagement. At FreshDirect, we've created an environment that thrives on teamwork, where associates can innovate, grow, and have successful careers. Many of our leaders have successfully come up through our ranks. Because of our team's extraordinary efforts, we are a leading innovator in the e-commerce and grocery industries.
Equal Opportunity
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Fresh Direct, LLC and its affiliates do not discriminate against applicants or employees because of their race, color, citizenship status, national origin, ancestry, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion, creed, marital status, veteran status, domestic violence victim status, political affiliation, or any other factor protected by federal, state, or local law.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the Team member(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of individuals in this position. Position expectations may be subject to change as the needs of the organization changes.
At FreshDirect, we are reinventing the grocery experience.
Since day one, our mission has been simple: bring the best, freshest food directly from the farm to people’s homes — faster, fresher, and smarter than anyone else.
We’re not just a food company. We’re a technology-powered, customer-obsessed team building one of the most innovative end-to-end food supply chains in the industry. From proprietary routing systems to our state-of-the-art fulfillment center, every part of our business is designed to deliver unmatched quality, convenience, and care.
We partner directly with farmers, fishermen, and artisans to source the highest quality ingredients — then use smart data, automation, and logistics to deliver them at peak freshness.
It’s grocery shopping reimagined — and we’re just getting started.
If you’re passionate about innovation, care deeply about what people eat, and want to help build the future of food, we’d love to meet you.
Join FreshDirect’s System engineering team in New York, USA
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer to join our System Engineering team. You will be responsible for supporting our growing GCP environment including helping migrate workloads from on-prem data centers to the cloud, and defining, implementing, and supporting best practices and standards across the GCP environment. You will also collaborate with other team members and help support internal customers and applications.
What You’ll Do
- Support the evolution of Google Cloud capabilities within the organization
- Advocate for cloud best practices, strategies, patterns and innovative technologies
- Build repeatable architecture patterns, blueprints and solutions to enable enterprise workloads across Google Cloud
- Oversee architecture governance, application reviews and compliance tollgates for Google Cloud deployments
- Craft high-quality, concise documentation to support frameworks, strategies and execution plans
- Provide thought leadership, mentorship and guidance to stakeholders and teams
- Drive continuous improvements within the Cloud Architecture function
- Comprehensive understanding of Google Cloud Platform services and products backed by 10 years of experience as a System Engineer.
- At least one of GCP SA, DevOps, and/or Security certification.
- Knowledge and Hands-on experience of Resource Management on Google Cloud and expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Knowledge and Hands-on experience in networking and security services within the Google Cloud environment (Shared VPC, NCC, Interconnect, Load Balancing, Firewalling, CDN, Cloud Armor, etc.)
- Knowledge and Hands-on experience with compute services such as Google Compute Engine (GCE), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run, etc.
- Knowledge and Hands-on experience with GCP database technologies including solutions like Cloud SQL, Alloy DB and Big Query.
- Knowledge and Hands-on experience with GCP CI/CD capabilities. Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, etc.
- Experience with data ingestion, transformation and orchestration tools such as Pub/Sub, Dataproc, Dataflow and Cloud Composer.
- Expertise in monitoring, logging and alerting using Google Cloud Operations Suite tools
- Demonstrated experience in designing, implementing and managing Google Cloud Landing Zones
- Deep knowledge of Cloud Architecture best practices ensuring reliability, scalability, security and operational efficiency
- Familiarity with building repeatable patterns and blueprints for managing workloads on Google Cloud using automation tools such as Terraform.
- Hands-on Unix/Linux Engineer background
- Hands-on CI/CD expertise
- Hands-on Terraform IaC background
- Experience with SRE practices: knowledge of concepts and tools such as SLA, SLI, SLO, RCA, and postmortems to ensure system reliability and availability
- Hands-on Knowledge of containerization technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes
We live these values every day:
A Passion for our customers
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do. We listen, innovate, and act quickly to exceed expectations with every order and interaction.
One team, one mission
Everyone contributes & every role matters. We break silos, lift each other up, and share a relentless focus on delivering results. That way, we win together.
Delivering excellence, every time
We take pride in the quality of our food, service, and the experience we create. Our team goes above and beyond to earn trust and guarantee 100% freshness.
Act with integrity
We operate with honesty, respect, and accountability in how we treat our customers, teammates, and partners. We own our outcomes and always do what’s right, even when no one is watching.
Make fast, bold decisions
We challenge the status quo, embrace technology, and take smart risks to build a better future. At the same time, we stay true to our NYC roots and care for our community.
We love food. Yes, literally all of us.
What You’ll Love About Working Here
- A fast-paced, innovative environment where ideas turn into action
- Opportunities for growth — many of our leaders have risen through the ranks
- Direct impact on how thousands of customers experience food every day
$135,000 – $160,000
Total Rewards & Benefits
- Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits
- PTO, Safe & Sick Time, and Paid Holidays
- Medical, Vision, Dental, and Voluntary Disability coverage
- 401(k) with employer match and Life Insurance
- State-of-the-art Bronx campus with on-site basketball court, cafeteria, and employee market
- Onsite FREE parking
- FREE employee shuttle bus service from nearby Subway station
- Training, leadership development, and tuition discount at local colleges
- 20% employee discount on FreshDirect online orders and Brooklyn wine store
- Minimum 50% employee discount at our onsite employee market
- Mobile phone discounts through partnerships with T-Mobile and Verizon
We embrace an in-office culture, composed of individuals who thrive on the collaboration and energy that comes from working together in a shared space. We are looking for people who excel in this environment, where physical presence enhances connections and engagement. At FreshDirect, we've created an environment that thrives on teamwork, where associates can innovate, grow, and have successful careers. Many of our leaders have successfully come up through our ranks. Because of our team's extraordinary efforts, we are a leading innovator in the e-commerce and grocery industries.
Equal Opportunity
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Fresh Direct, LLC and its affiliates do not discriminate against applicants or employees because of their race, color, citizenship status, national origin, ancestry, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion, creed, marital status, veteran status, domestic violence victim status, political affiliation, or any other factor protected by federal, state, or local law.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the Team member(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of individuals in this position. Position expectations may be subject to change as the needs of the organization changes.
Salary : $135,000 - $160,000