{"token":"senior-google-cloud-engineer-7b7dfc31b3c7","role":"Senior Google Cloud Engineer","notes":"","ad_count_scanned":6,"jd_text":"ROLE SUMMARY:\n\nSenior Google Cloud Engineer is a hands-on infrastructure and platform engineering role focused on designing, building, and operating cloud systems at scale. You will own cloud infrastructure strategy, lead migrations, implement infrastructure-as-code solutions, and drive reliability and cost efficiency across multi-cloud environments. This is a delivery-focused position working with production systems serving real enterprise customers and end users.\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES:\n\n- Design and build cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, CDK) for production environments\n- Lead enterprise cloud migration programmes, including Landing Zone deployments and multi-account governance structures\n- Own CI\/CD pipeline design, development, and maintenance across deployment environments\n- Manage Kubernetes deployments, including cluster provisioning, scaling, and troubleshooting using Helm and related tools\n- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and operational tasks using tools like Ansible and Terraform\n- Design and implement cloud networking solutions including hybrid connectivity, transit gateways, and security controls\n- Build visibility into cloud costs and resource utilization; drive cost optimization and efficiency initiatives\n- Migrate workloads and databases into cloud environments using appropriate migration tooling and cutover strategies\n- Conduct security hardening, disaster recovery enablement, and Well-Architected Reviews across cloud estates\n- Support production deployments and cutovers, including out-of-hours activity where required\n- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (architects, project managers, engineers) to translate designs into buildable solutions\n- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to internal knowledge sharing and capability building\n- Produce clear technical documentation including architecture diagrams, runbooks, and handover material\n\nMUST-HAVE REQUIREMENTS:\n\n- 5+ years of hands-on infrastructure engineering experience in production environments with real customer or enterprise workloads\n- Deep expertise with Kubernetes, including cluster deployment, pod management, services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and troubleshooting\n- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, or equivalent)\n- Demonstrated experience with CI\/CD pipeline design and implementation (GitLab CI\/CD, Jenkins, FluxCD, ArgoCD, or equivalent)\n- Proficiency with containerization and Docker\n- Strong understanding of cloud networking, compute, storage, security, and identity concepts\n- Proven experience migrating workloads and infrastructure to cloud environments\n- Comfort working in regulated or high-stakes environments with security and compliance requirements\n- Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with technical stakeholders and cross-functional teams\n- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting capabilities across infrastructure, containers, and deployment systems\n\nNICE-TO-HAVE REQUIREMENTS:\n\n- Experience across multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) or leading genuine multi-cloud migrations\n- Hands-on experience with network automation (Ansible, network device APIs, NETCONF, SSH)\n- Knowledge of container orchestration platforms beyond Kubernetes (OpenShift)\n- Experience with event streaming platforms (Kafka, Kafka Connect, RabbitMQ)\n- Cloud cost optimization and FinOps experience\n- Observability and monitoring stack implementation (logging, metrics, tracing)\n- Cloud compliance, security controls, and governance frameworks\n- Python or scripting language proficiency for automation tasks\n- Experience building or shipping developer tools or platform products\n- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor)\n- Background in regulated industries (fintech, healthcare) or managed services environments\n- Knowledge of database migration tools and strategies (AWS DMS, SQL Server to RDS migrations)\n- Red team tooling, adversary emulation, or security platform experience","created":1789637070,"input_tokens":6071,"output_tokens":816,"cost_usd":0.010151,"cost_zar":0.16570664966999998,"cost_zar_live":true}