Cloud Platform Engineer

FreshDirect; New York (NY); On-site; USD 135,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits

PTO and Paid Holidays

Medical, Vision, Dental coverage

401(k) with employer match

Onsite employee market with discounts

Job summary

A leading grocery innovation firm in New York is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to enhance their Google Cloud environment. The role involves migrating workloads, advocating for cloud best practices, and providing mentoring within a dynamic team. Candidates should have over 10 years of experience and hands-on expertise in Google Cloud services, including GCP IAM and containerization technologies. The position offers an excellent package and a collaborative workplace culture.

Qualifications

• Extensive understanding of Google Cloud Platform and related products.
• Hands-on experience in Google Cloud IAM and Resource Management.
• Knowledge of GCP networking and security services.

Responsibilities

• Support Google Cloud capabilities and best practices.
• Advocate for innovative technologies and strategies.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to stakeholders.

Skills

Google Cloud Platform services

DevOps

Security certification

Unix/Linux Engineering

CI/CD expertise

Terraform IaC

Containerization technologies

Education

10+ years of experience as a System Engineer

Tools

Terraform

Google Kubernetes Engine

Docker

Job description

Brief Description

At FreshDirect, we are reinventing the grocery experience. Since day one, our mission has been simple: bring the best, freshest food directly from the farm to people’s homes — faster, fresher, and smarter than anyone else. We’re not just a food company. We’re a technology‑powered, customer‑obsessed team building one of the most innovative end‑to‑end food supply chains in the industry. From proprietary routing systems to our state‑of‑the‑art fulfillment center, every part of our business is designed to deliver unmatched quality, convenience, and care. We partner directly with farmers, fishermen, and artisans to source the highest‑quality ingredients — then use smart data, automation, and logistics to deliver them at peak freshness. It’s grocery shopping reimagined — and we’re just getting started. If you’re passionate about innovation, care deeply about what people eat, and want to help build the future of food, we’d love to meet you.

Join FreshDirect’s System Engineering team in New York, USA

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer to join our System Engineering team. You will be responsible for supporting our growing GCP environment including helping migrate workloads from on‑prem data centers to the cloud, and defining, implementing, and supporting best practices and standards across the GCP environment. You will also collaborate with other team members and help support internal customers and applications.

What You’ll Do

• Support the evolution of Google Cloud capabilities within the organization
• Advocate for cloud best practices, strategies, patterns and innovative technologies
• Build repeatable architecture patterns, blueprints and solutions to enable enterprise workloads across Google Cloud
• Oversee architecture governance, application reviews and compliance tollgates for Google Cloud deployments
• Craft high‑quality, concise documentation to support frameworks, strategies and execution plans
• Provide thought leadership, mentorship and guidance to stakeholders and teams
• Drive continuous improvements within the Cloud Architecture function

What You’ll Bring

• Comprehensive understanding of Google Cloud Platform services and products backed by 10+ years of experience as a System Engineer.
• At least one of GCP SA, DevOps, and/or Security certification.
• Knowledge and hands‑on experience of Resource Management on Google Cloud and expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Knowledge and hands‑on experience in networking and security services within the Google Cloud environment (Shared VPC, NCC, Interconnect, Load Balancing, Firewalling, CDN, Cloud Armor, etc.)
• Knowledge and hands‑on experience with compute services such as Google Compute Engine (GCE), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run, etc.
• Knowledge and hands‑on experience with GCP database technologies including solutions like Cloud SQL, Alloy DB and Big Query.
• Knowledge and hands‑on experience with GCP CI/CD capabilities. Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, etc.
• Experience with data ingestion, transformation and orchestration tools such as Pub/Sub, Dataproc, Dataflow and Cloud Composer.
• Expertise in monitoring, logging and alerting using Google Cloud Operations Suite tools
• Demonstrated experience in designing, implementing and managing Google Cloud Landing Zones
• Deep knowledge of Cloud Architecture best practices ensuring reliability, scalability, security and operational efficiency
• Familiarity with building repeatable patterns and blueprints for managing workloads on Google Cloud using automation tools such as Terraform.

Skills

• Hands‑on Unix/Linux Engineer background
• Hands‑on CI/CD expertise
• Hands‑on Terraform IaC background
• Experience with SRE practices: knowledge of concepts and tools such as SLA, SLI, SLO, RCA, and post‑mortems to ensure system reliability and availability
• Hands‑on knowledge of containerization technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes

Our Values at FreshDirect

A Passion for our customers: Our customers are at the heart of everything we do. We listen, innovate, and act quickly to exceed expectations with every order and interaction.

One team, one mission: Everyone contributes & every role matters. We break silos, lift each other up, and share a relentless focus on delivering results. That way, we win together.

Delivering excellence, every time: We take pride in the quality of our food, service, and the experience we create. Our team goes above and beyond to earn trust and guarantee 100% freshness.

Act with integrity: We operate with honesty, respect, and accountability in how we treat our customers, teammates, and partners. We own our outcomes and always do what’s right, even when no one is watching.

Make fast, bold decisions: We challenge the status quo, embrace technology, and take smart risks to build a better future. At the same time, we stay true to our NYC roots and care for our community.

We love food. Yes, literally all of us.

What You’ll Love About Working Here

• A fast‑paced, innovative environment where ideas turn into action
• Opportunities for growth — many of our leaders have risen through the ranks
• Direct impact on how thousands of customers experience food every day

Salary

$135,000 – $160,000

Total Rewards & Benefits

• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits
• PTO, Safe & Sick Time, and Paid Holidays
• Medical, Vision, Dental, and Voluntary Disability coverage
• 401(k) with employer match and Life Insurance
• State‑of‑the‑art Bronx campus with on‑site basketball court, cafeteria, and employee market
• Onsite FREE parking
• FREE employee shuttle bus service from nearby Subway station
• Training, leadership development, and tuition discount at local colleges
• 20% employee discount on FreshDirect online orders and Brooklyn wine store
• Minimum 50% employee discount at our onsite employee market
• Mobile phone discounts through partnerships with T‑Mobile and Verizon

Our Culture

We embrace an in‑office culture, composed of individuals who thrive on the collaboration and energy that comes from working together in a shared space. We are looking for people who excel in this environment, where physical presence enhances connections and engagement. At FreshDirect, we've created an environment that thrives on teamwork, where associates can innovate, grow, and have successful careers. Many of our leaders have successfully come up through our ranks. Because of our team's extraordinary efforts, we are a leading innovator in the e‑commerce and grocery industries.

Equal Opportunity

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Fresh Direct, LLC and its affiliates do not discriminate against applicants or employees because of their race, color, citizenship status, national origin, ancestry, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion, creed, marital status, veteran status, domestic violence victim status, political affiliation, or any other factor protected by federal, state, or local law.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the Team member(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of individuals in this position. Position expectations may be subject to change as the needs of the organization changes.