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Role: Senior Lead GCP Platform Engineer
Location Charlotte NC or Irvine TX or Edison NJ or Phoenix AZ
Duration: 12 Months
Job Summary
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 enterprisewide 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 GCPnative and thirdparty 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 handson 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 handson Google Cloud Platform experience
3 years of Python development and automation experience
Experience implementing centralized observability solutions across multiple cloud accountsprojects
Experience with enterprise monitoring logging alerting and operational analytics
Experience supporting Kubernetesbased platforms
Preferred Qualifications
Experience designing organizationwide observability frameworks
Experience implementing OpenTelemetry 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
Enterprisewide 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
Pythonbased 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