Cloud Data Engineer – GCP & GKE Expert

Insight Global (United States); Burbank (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, deploy, and manage enterprise GCP infrastructure and related Windows services. You will ensure reliability, security, cost efficiency, and alignment with architecture standards while collaborating with development, security, and IT teams.

You will design and optimize Compute Engine, GKE, VPCs, Cloud CDN, Load Balancing, and data services; lead projects, maintain documentation, and drive automation using IaC,

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cloud infrastructure or platform engineering with 3+ years on GCP.
• Hands-on with GKE and enterprise Kubernetes in complex environments.
• Experience with Windows Server and Active Directory in cloud contexts.
• Proficient in IaC and GitOps practices.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and project management.
• Proven incident response, disaster recovery, and cost optimization skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage enterprise GCP infrastructure and services.
• Lead cloud and infrastructure projects with milestones and stakeholder updates.
• Automate operations using IaC, CI/CD, and scripting.
• Provide guidance and documentation to IT teams.
• Monitor, optimize cost and performance with Datadog; ensure reliability.

Skills

GCP expertise

GKE

IAM & security

IaC / GitOps

CI/CD pipelines

Automation scripting

Datadog

Networking

Education

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect

Other Google Cloud certifications

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitOps

Bitbucket

Jenkins

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Insight Global is seeking an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, deploy, and manage enterprise GCP infrastructure and related Windows services. You will ensure reliability, security, cost efficiency, and alignment with architecture standards while collaborating with development, security, and IT teams.

You will design and optimize Compute Engine, GKE, VPCs, Cloud CDN, Load Balancing, and data services; lead projects, maintain documentation, and drive automation using IaC,