GCP Infrastructure Engineer

Matlen Silver; New Jersey; On-site; USD 90,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Matlen Silver seeks a Cloud Automation Engineer focusing on Terraform-driven IaC and platform engineering. You will design and maintain Terraform modules, enterprise provisioning, and secure automation to enable scalable, compliant infrastructure across environments.

The role emphasizes building self-service tooling, integrating security-by-design, and implementing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions. Collaboration with global teams is essential, with a focus on reliability and governance.

Qualifications

• Significant experience writing Terraform configurations and modules.
• Experience with Terraform Enterprise (TFE) for resource provisioning.
• Experience in DevOps and GitOps models with infra-as-code, config-as-code, policy-as-code, etc.
• Proficient in translating designs into fully developed Terraform code.
• Strong knowledge of cloud adoption framework, networking, security and Well-Architected principles.

Responsibilities

• Translate business and platform requirements into technical definitions, reference architectures, Terraform modules, and reusable platform patterns.
• Design, build, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to provision services in a scalable, consistent, and compliant manner.
• Contribute to self-service platform by creating standard golden paths and templates for safe deployments.
• Develop automation and CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions with validation and security scanning.
• Embed security-by-design principles, encryption, IAM, and secure network architectures.
• Support governance and guardrails for security, risk, and regulatory requirements in financial services.

Skills

Terraform

Terraform Enterprise

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Python

IaC

Cloud networking

Security by design

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Terraform

Terraform Enterprise

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub Actions

Ansible

Python

Job description

– Office location is Charlotte NC or Jersey City NJ or Plano TX

Required Pay Scale: $65-70hr W2

***Due to client requirements this role is only open to USC or GC candidates***

Summary

The individual in this role is responsible for tool and service designs within a technical domain that enable business strategies in accordance with architectural governance, standards and policies. They are the primary contributor to the creation of infrastructure tools and their integration as an infrastructure service. The role facilitates deployment of technical solution by developing templates, playbooks and automation used during implementation. They consistently look for opportunities to improve the reliability and efficiency when implementing and maintaining infrastructure tools and/or services. This individual embraces a culture that drives innovation and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist in translating business and platform requirements into technical definitions, reference architectures, Terraform modules, and reusable platform patterns, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards and policies.
• Design, build, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to provision services in a scalable, consistent, and compliant manner, including module development, versioning, and environment strategies.
• Contribute to the development of a self-service platform, creating standardized golden paths and templates that enable internal teams to deploy infrastructure safely and efficiently.
• Develop and maintain automation and CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, including validation, security scanning, and controlled infrastructure deployments.
• Embed security-by-design principles into platform services, ensuring secure defaults through implementation of IAM best practices, encryption standards, and secure network architectures.
• Support implementation of governance and guardrails, ensuring infrastructure complies with internal security, risk, and regulatory requirements within a financial services environment.
• Develop software and automation solutions to eliminate manual processes and improve platform usability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Assist in the evaluation and adoption of third-party tools and services, ensuring they align with platform standards, security requirements, and long-term strategy.
• Collaborate with Technical Analysts, Infrastructure Engineers, and application teams to ensure solutions integrate effectively with the platform and comply with engineering standards.
• Contribute to the definition and evaluation of functional and non-functional requirements for platform services, including security, scalability, performance, and resilience.
• Leverage AI/ML services to accelerate platform development, including enhancing automation, improving developer experience, and enabling intelligent tooling and workflows.
• Develop and maintain Python-based automation and tooling (e.g. AWS Lambda-based workflows) to support platform capabilities and reduce manual operational effort.
• Contribute to building event-driven and serverless platform components using services to improve scalability and responsiveness.
• Support implementation of secure and scalable network architectures, ensuring alignment with cloud security and regulatory requirements.
• Act as a subject matter contributor within Terraform, and platform engineering practices, supporting internal teams adopting platform capabilities.
• Contribute to observability and operational excellence, including monitoring, alerting, and continuous improvement of platform reliability and resilience.
• Promote an inclusive and healthy working environment and help to resolve organizational impediments/blockers.

Required Qualifications

• Significant experience writing Hashicorp Terraform configurations and modules.
• Experience with Terraform Enterprise (TFE) tool for resource provisioning.
• Experience in DevOps and GitOps models with infra-as-code, config-as-code, policy-as-code, etc.
• Proficient in translating designs into fully developed Terraform code.
• Strong knowledge of cloud adoption framework etc.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking concepts, subnets, routing, load balancing, firewalls, and cloud security.
• Experience in enterprise-scale environments, building highly available IaaS and PaaS solutions
• Understanding of landing zones, cloud-native security, monitoring and logging tools, and Well-Architected Framework principals.
• Experience with containers related technologies and CICD tools - Jenkins, pipelines, container repos, etc.
• Experience in programming and infra-automation tools - Terraform, Ansible, Java, python, etc.
• Experience in Cloud logging, monitoring, and observability tools
• Proficient in at least one scripting language (i.e. Bash, Python).
• Strong analytical, problem solving and organizational skills
• Excellent collaboration skills and ability to work in a global team
• Minimum of a 7-year degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
• Minimum 5+ years of Cloud Automation Engineer working experience

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in financial services industry
• Experience in various public cloud service providers
• Experience on technology and infrastructure teams
• Experience in Linux/UNIX system administration
• Experience with Container technologies (Kubernetes, Openshift, Docker)
• Must Have Technical GiTHub

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