Google Cloud Professional Devops Engineer Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Job#: 3042064
Job Description:
Title: Cloud Engineer
Location: Remote (Candidates must be located in Colorado)
Description:
(Position Overview)
The Google Cloud Platform Cloud Engineer accelerates project delivery by implementing enterprise-grade cloud designs and automation standards established by the Cloud Architecture and Operations teams. Operating within a DevOps methodology, you will serve as the primary infrastructure lead on cloud migration and modernization projects-provisioning application hosting environments, building robust monitoring, and ensuring high availability.
Beyond deployment, you will author, socialize, and govern the standards for how the organization consumes cloud services. We are looking for a continuous-improvement champion who will drive lifecycle management, evaluate evolving Google Cloud Platform capabilities, manage vendor interactions, and participate in after-hours on-call rotation.
Note: Due to the nature of our work unit (OIT), the selected candidate must successfully pass comprehensive background checks, including State, Federal, and Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) clearances.
Some of the primary duties and responsibilities include:

• Infrastructure as Code: Deploy and manage Google Cloud Platform infrastructure natively as code (IaC) utilizing Terraform integrated into automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Standardization: Define, document, and govern Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the secure consumption of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS across Google Cloud Platform.
• Core Networking: Configure and deploy highly available VPC environments, Shared VPCs, and cloud compute instances across all hosted enterprise workloads.
• Security Automation: Partner with Network Security Operations (NetSecOps) and the CISO team to embed identity, governance, and network security policies directly into automated, reusable infrastructure templates.
• Identity & Access: Manage cloud-platform users, organizations, groups, and access controls in strict alignment with IAM team requirements.
• Observability: Design and implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and reporting capabilities to ensure platform health and management visibility.
• Innovation & Advocacy: Analyze emerging Google Cloud Platform features for platform adoption and evangelize cloud capabilities to internal teams to drive migration.
• Tier-2 Support: Act as the escalation point for on-call/break-fix efforts to rapidly diagnose and resolve complex incidents within cloud-based systems.
• On-Call Operations: Participate in a rotating 24/7/365 after-hours on-call schedule to provide Tier-2 engineering support, system monitoring, and rapid incident response for production environments.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• At least five (5) years of infrastructure development experience with hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform foundation services related to computing, network, storage, content delivery, administration and security, deployment and management, and automation technologies.
• At least five (5) years of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience in Terraform or similar.
• Deep domain expertise in cloud infrastructure solutions (i.e. Windows and Linux IaaS, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, OSS, containers, and Infrastructure as code technology), breadth of technical experience, and technical aptitude to learn and adjust to new technologies and cloud trends required.
• Proven technical breadth and the aptitude to adapt to rapidly changing cloud trends
• Demonstrated experience with large-scale infrastructure deployments in enterprise-wide environments.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining automated Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Strong scripting capabilities in Bash, Python, YAML, and PowerShell.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification
• Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer
• Hands-on experience deploying infrastructure via Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar enterprise CI/CD platforms

Estimated Duration:
07/27/2026 - 12/31/2026
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