GCP Cloud Infra & IaC Engineer — Automation & Monitoring

Photon; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Photon is hiring an experienced Cloud Infrastructure / IaC Engineer to design, automate, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as part of our Digital Engineering team in Sunnyvale, CA. The position requires hands-on expertise in IaC, automation, and cloud services, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and security.

You will build reusable infrastructure, implement monitoring with Datadog and Grafana, and collaborate with application, platform, and SRE teams

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or related roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and infrastructure automation.
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure at scale.
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring and observability using Datadog and Grafana.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across cloud and infrastructure environments.
• Experience supporting incident investigation and resolution.
• Familiarity with Jira and GitHub.
• Familiarity with unit testing and API testing within an engineering environment.
• Understanding of secure coding and infrastructure security practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and manage cloud infrastructure on GCP.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
• Build reusable and repeatable infrastructure automation for application and platform environments.
• Support provisioning, configuration, and ongoing management of cloud infrastructure across environments.
• Work with application and platform engineering teams to define infrastructure requirements and deployment needs.
• Improve infrastructure scalability, reliability, consistency, and operational efficiency through automation.
• Implement and maintain infrastructure monitoring and observability using Datadog and Grafana.
• Troubleshoot cloud infrastructure, configuration, connectivity, and deployment issues.
• Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis for infrastructure-related issues.
• Maintain infrastructure code and configuration through GitHub and established engineering practices.
• Support secure configuration and deployment of cloud infrastructure.
• Use Jira for engineering and delivery activities.

Skills

GCP

IaC (Infrastructure as Code)

Automation

Datadog

Grafana

GitHub

Jira

Incident response

Security practices

Collaboration

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Job description

Photon is hiring an experienced Cloud Infrastructure / IaC Engineer to design, automate, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as part of our Digital Engineering team in Sunnyvale, CA. The position requires hands-on expertise in IaC, automation, and cloud services, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and security.

You will build reusable infrastructure, implement monitoring with Datadog and Grafana, and collaborate with application, platform, and SRE teams