We’re looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to lead our move to the cloud, starting with smaller applications and building toward migrating our microservices to the cloud. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role as our dedicated cloud specialist: you’ll partner directly with our Director of Software Engineering on architecture and migration strategy, and work closely with our DevOps engineer on deployment, while driving the day-to-day execution independently.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design and own the migration of applications and microservices from on-premise infrastructure to the cloud (GCP), starting with lower-risk workloads and progressing to larger, more business-critical systems
- Architect scalable, secure, cost-efficient environments on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), following the provider’s well-architected best practices
- Partner with the Director of Software Engineering on migration strategy and key architecture decisions
- Collaborate closely with our DevOps engineer to integrate migrated applications into existing CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
- Establish monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure reliability and performance post-migration
- Implement security, identity/access management (IAM), and networking best practices for cloud workloads
- Evaluate and recommend migration strategies (rehost, replatform, refactor) on a per-application basis
- Troubleshoot and resolve cloud infrastructure issues independently, with minimal escalation support
- Document architecture, runbooks, and migration decisions for future team growth
Qualifications and Skills Required:
Required:
- 8+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience, including designing, deploying, and owning production workloads in the cloud
- Proven experience migrating applications from on-premise to cloud environments
- Strong working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Working familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred), CI/CD concepts, and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) to collaborate effectively with our DevOps engineer
- Solid scripting ability (Python, Bash, or similar) for automation
- Working knowledge of cloud networking (VPCs, load balancers, DNS, security groups) and IAM
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and drive cloud initiatives day-to-day as the team’s dedicated cloud specialist
Preferred:
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification
- Experience migrating business-critical or transaction-based systems to the cloud
- Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g., Cloud Monitoring, New Relic)