Bizi Digital

Principal System Engineer (GCP, Cloud)

Bizi Digital

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • North Carolina

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Salary

💰 $119,200 - $178,800 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

BigQueryCloudDistributed SystemsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJenkinsKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonSQLTerraform

About the role

  • A Principal Systems Engineer will utilize expert-level infrastructure, cloud architecture, and systems design knowledge to lead the evolution of cloud-native platforms and enterprise infrastructure.
  • This position demands a high degree of technical leadership, operational foresight, and systems thinking.
  • The ideal candidate has deep hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), automation frameworks, and highly available distributed systems.
  • Maintain expert-level knowledge of emerging GCP services, infrastructure design patterns, automation tooling, and site reliability engineering practices.
  • Provide architectural guidance and technical mentorship to engineers across infrastructure, DevOps, and platform teams.
  • Collaborate with Cloud Architects and Engineering Leadership to define standards for GCP resource hierarchy, networking, security, and cost optimization.
  • Lead the design, deployment, and automation of scalable, resilient infrastructure on GCP, using tools such as Terraform, Kubernetes (GKE), and Cloud Build.
  • Guide enterprise-wide initiatives focused on infrastructure modernization, cloud migration, and zero-downtime operations.
  • Implement best-in-class monitoring, logging, and observability practices using Stackdriver, Prometheus, and third-party integrations.
  • Conduct design reviews, evaluate new services, and ensure infrastructure solutions align with performance, security, and compliance requirements.
  • Lead incident response and root cause analysis for infrastructure-impacting events, driving long-term stability improvements.
  • Define and enforce GCP IAM policies, network segmentation, org policies, and workload identity federation strategies.
  • Work closely with application and data engineering teams to optimize cloud deployments, container orchestration, and API gateways.
  • Own the infrastructure-as-code lifecycle, enabling consistent, version-controlled deployments across environments.
  • Contribute to technical roadmaps, budgeting forecasts, and capacity planning processes.
  • Document architectural decisions, cloud resource inventories, and runbooks for critical platform services.
  • Champion cloud-native best practices, DevSecOps principles, and efficient operational processes.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of infrastructure or systems engineering experience, with 3+ years in a Principal or Lead role
  • Proven hands-on expertise with GCP core services including VPC, GKE, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, IAM, Cloud SQL, and BigQuery
  • Deep understanding of Terraform, CI/CD pipelines (Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins), and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
  • Experience designing and supporting resilient, high-throughput distributed systems
  • Strong background in Linux systems engineering, networking, and scripting (Python, Bash, or Go)
  • Familiarity with DevOps and SRE practices including monitoring, SLOs/SLIs, chaos testing, and auto-remediation
  • Experience with multi-region, hybrid cloud, or enterprise-wide cloud migration strategies
  • Effective communicator with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior leadership
  • Relevant GCP certifications (e.g., Professional Cloud Architect, Professional DevOps Engineer) strongly preferred