Technical Lead – GCP Cloud Engineering

Infinit-O; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Infinit-O is seeking a seasoned Cloud Engineering Lead in India to architect, implement, and deploy cloud-native applications on Google Cloud Platform. You will lead a team of 5–10 engineers, establish patterns across GCP services, and drive CI/CD and IaC practices.

You will collaborate with product and DevOps teams to align technical roadmaps with business goals and enforce security, cost controls, and high availability.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end design, implementation, and deployment of cloud-native applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Establish architecture patterns using GCP services such as GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Spanner/SQL, and IAM.
• Conduct regular code reviews, define engineering best practices, and maintain high standards for performance, security, and test coverage.
• Drive automated CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or Deployment Manager.
• Lead and mentor a team of 5–10 software engineers, providing continuous feedback, career guidance, and technical coaching.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily standups, technical estimation, and backlog grooming in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Unblock team members on complex technical hurdles and foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and DevOps teams to align technical roadmaps with business goals.
• Enforce cloud security policies, compliance standards, data protection, and cost-optimization strategies on GCP.
• Drive observability strategies (logging, metrics, tracing using Google Cloud Operations / Stackdriver) to ensure high availability and sub-second SLAs.

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end design, implementation, and deployment of cloud-native applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Establish architecture patterns using GCP services such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Spanner/SQL, and IAM.
• Conduct regular code reviews, define engineering best practices, and maintain high standards for performance, security, and test coverage.
• Drive automated CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or Deployment Manager.
• Lead and mentor a team of 5–10 software engineers, providing continuous feedback, career guidance, and technical coaching.
• Facilitate sprint planning, daily standups, technical estimation, and backlog grooming in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Unblock team members on complex technical hurdles and foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Strategy, Security & Operations

• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and DevOps teams to align technical roadmaps with business goals.
• Enforce cloud security policies, compliance standards, data protection, and cost-optimization strategies on GCP.
• Drive observability strategies (logging, metrics, tracing using Google Cloud Operations / Stackdriver) to ensure high availability and sub-second SLAs.