Senior Google Cloud Engineer Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

SSBI (T5)

Job Family:

IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

GCP Cloud SQL, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for Machine Learning, Google Cloud Platform Administration, Google Cloud Platform Architecture, Google Cloud Storage

Certifications:

None

Experience:

10 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

GDIT is seeking a Senior Google Cloud Platform Engineer to administer the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), working with AWS and Azure Engineers to maintain, patch, automate and help AI devs solve and solution technical issues.

As a Senior GCP Engineer , the work you'll do at GDIT will be impactful. You will play a crucial role providing senior-level engineering expertise and supports mission programs by delivering scalable cloud infrastructure, enhancing DevSecOps capabilities, and enabling AI and data science proof-of-concepts across customer environments. You will deliver scalable cloud infrastructure, enhance DevSecOps capabilities, and support AI/ML and data-science initiatives across mission environments. You will ensure GCP environment reliability, performance, governance, and security in support of modernization and mission outcomes. Work visa sponsorship will not be provided for this role.

Advance how our customers operate while you advance your career. Join GDIT remotely as a Senior Google Cloud Platform Engineer and build an impactful career in enterprise IT, collaborating with people who are driven and resourceful like you.
HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Engineer, deploy, and optimize GCP infrastructure across IaaS, PaaS, serverless, container, data, and AI services.
• Support data scientists and AI engineers using Vertex AI, Gemini APIs, Model Garden, BigQuery ML, Dataproc, Dataflow, and Databricks on GCP.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and policy-driven automation frameworks.
• Migrate cloud resources into IaC with version control, automated testing, and compliance enforcement.
• Implement DevSecOps practices including automated scans, configuration compliance, policy-as-code, and CI/CD controls.
• Engineer core GCP components: compute, storage, networking, identity, Kubernetes, monitoring, logging, and governance.
• Design and support secure connectivity across hybrid, SaaS, and multi-cloud architectures.
• Produce architecture diagrams, engineering documentation, implementation guides, and technical recommendations.
• Evaluate emerging GCP, AI, and multi-cloud services and recommend adoption strategies.
• Contribute to cloud standards, reusable patterns, landing zones, security baselines, and modernization roadmaps.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED
Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Cloud Engineer Sr Principal must have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Systems Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of cloud, infrastructure, systems, or platform engineering experience, preferably with hands-on development experience.
• Hands-on enterprise-scaling Google Cloud Platform (GCP) engineering and operations experience.
• Experience supporting AI/ML workloads (Vertex AI, BigQuery, Dataproc, Dataflow, MLOps patterns).
• Strong DevSecOps automation skills, including CI/CD, Git-based workflows, and secure deployment practices.
• Expertise with Terraform and IaC best practices.
• Understanding of multi-cloud concepts and AWS/Azure equivalents.
• Proficiency with Linux and Windows Server.
• Scripting experience with Python, Bash, and PowerShell.
• Strong GCP networking experience (VPCs, subnets, firewall rules, Cloud DNS, Cloud NAT, Cloud Router, Cloud VPN, Cloud Interconnect, PSC, load balancing, routing).
• Experience with Docker and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Experience with key GCP services including: Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Artifact Registry, Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, IAM, Secret Manager, Cloud KMS, SCC, and/or Organization Policy Service.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance (U.S. citizenship required)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Google Cloud certifications, including Cloud Architect, DevOps Engineer, Security Engineer, Data Engineer, ML Engineer.
• Experience with Vertex AI, Gemini APIs, Model Garden, Dataplex, Looker, Cloud Composer, Pub/Sub, and Databricks on GCP.
• Experience engineering secure GCP landing zones (Org Policies, folder/project design, centralized logging, Shared VPC, guardrails).
• Experience in regulated environments (FedRAMP, HIPAA, NIST 800-53 / 171, CMMC).
• Security+, CySA+, CISSP, CCSP, CKA, or CKAD certifications.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum, Jira, Confluence, GitLab, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
• Experience integrating SaaS platforms with GCP and hybrid/multi-cloud environments.

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY
Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you'll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.

The likely salary range for this position is $149,469 - $184,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee's date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process:

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

About Our Work:

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on our career opportunities and events at

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