GCP Specialist

Job Title

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Consultant (Google Cloud Platform)

Location

NYC/ Hybrid

About the Opportunity

We are seeking a certified Google Cloud Platform (GCP) specialist to serve as a critical technical advisor, overseeing the stability, automation, and security of a high-priority, production-scale native cloud environment. This contract role requires an expert in modern site reliability engineering (SRE) principles who can proactively manage infrastructure-as-code, optimize database performance, and ensure near-perfect application availability. If you bring deep operational experience with containerized cloud architectures and advanced infrastructure governance, this is a compelling opportunity to own a highly visible enterprise platform ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Platform Reliability and Maintenance: Actively monitor, tune, and sustain core cloud components including containerized runtime services, relational databases, distributed messaging components, and software-defined networking layers.

• Infrastructure Automation: Manage configuration files and state definitions across development, staging, and production environments using modern infrastructure-as-code deployment practices.

• Incident Management & Diagnostics: Spearhead rapid root cause analysis during critical platform disruptions, addressing latency anomalies, connectivity issues, and cloud resource bottlenecks.

• Data Tier Operations: Maintain high-availability database architectures, ensuring seamless connection configurations, failover protocols, and automated recovery validation.

• Cloud Security Administration: Enforce rigorous identity and access management controls, manage virtual networking firewalls, handle automated credential cycling, and implement robust web-application defenses.

• Efficiency Analysis: Continuously evaluate usage trends to right-size compute resources, manage scaling rules, and control operational expenditures against resource limits.

Requirements (must-have)

• GCP Operational Background: Minimum of 5 years of dedicated experience in cloud infrastructure or site reliability engineering, with a minimum of 3 years spent executing technical deliverables natively within the Google Cloud Platform ecosystem.

• Cloud Architecture Domain Knowledge: Exceptional operational proficiency with core GCP systems including Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Firestore, Pub/Sub, Virtual Private Cloud networking, Cloud Load Balancing, and identity governance protocols.

• Infrastructure-as-Code Proficiency: Demonstrated experience authoring, deploying, and tracking environment states through automated tools such as Terraform or native cloud deployment managers.

• Database Infrastructure Oversight: Substantial familiarity administering enterprise cloud databases, including clustering, connection pooling proxies, read replicas, and disaster recovery strategies.

• Security Governance: Expert execution of least-privilege access designs, workload identities, and perimeter defensive rules.

• Observability & Telemetry: Proven capability to construct monitoring dashboards, configure metric-driven alert paths, and track operational service level objectives during active deployments.

Preferred Qualifications (nice-to-have)

• Professional Certification: Holding a valid Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect or Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer credential is highly desirable.

• Advanced Workloads: Prior exposure to managing underlying cloud infrastructure that supports active machine learning pipelines or AI-driven application layers.

**We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, ethnic origin, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.**

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