
Senior GCP Cloud Platform Engineer
Ole & Lena Digital
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $75 - $95 per hour
Job Level
About the role
- Build and manage GCP infrastructure across core services including Compute, networking, IAM, storage, and GKE.
- Support and execute migrations from on-premises or multi-cloud environments into GCP, including lift-and-shift and replatforming strategies.
- Implement and maintain infrastructure using Terraform to ensure repeatable, scalable, and production-ready deployments.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure and application performance issues while identifying opportunities to improve reliability, efficiency, and cloud cost management.
- Partner with engineering, DevOps, and client stakeholders to ensure successful delivery across the full project lifecycle.
Requirements
- 6-8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or DevOps.
- 4-6+ years of proven hands-on experience working with GCP in production environments, with a strong understanding of Compute Engine, VPC, IAM, and storage.
- Experience executing cloud migrations from on-premises or multi-cloud environments into GCP.
- Ability to work independently in a contract or client-facing delivery environment.
- Strong experience with Terraform preferred.
- Exposure to Docker and Kubernetes, including GKE, is highly valuable.
- Solid Linux systems knowledge and strong networking fundamentals.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and scripting in Python or Bash.
- Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and cloud cost optimization best practices.
- Experience working across hybrid or multi-cloud environments is a plus.
- Relevant Google Cloud certification required.
- Demonstrated experience working with GCP in live production environments.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
GCPTerraformDockerKubernetesGKELinuxCI/CDPythonBashcloud migrations
Soft Skills
independent workclient-facing deliverycollaborationtroubleshootingproblem-solvingcommunicationproject lifecycle managementreliability improvementefficiency improvementcloud cost management
Certifications
Google Cloud certification