Lead Cloud Engineer, Google Cloud Platform & IaC

OpenKrill; United States; Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work options

Hybrid work options (country-dependent

Career advancement

Learning and development

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Valtech is seeking a Lead Cloud Engineer in the United States to push the boundaries of experience innovation. You bring 7+ years in cloud/infrastructure and deep Google Cloud Platform expertise to design, deploy and secure scalable infrastructure.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and help shape resilient, cost-efficient platforms while leveraging AI assistants to speed up delivery and documentation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in cloud or infrastructure engineering, incl. 3+ years hands-on with Google Cloud Platform.
• Expert-level infrastructure and networking within GCP: VPC, firewalls, load balancing, DNS, shared VPC, VPN/Interconnect.
• Hands-on Terraform for IaC.
• Core GCP services: Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, IAM.
• CI/CD tools experience; Python or Bash.
• Designing landing zones, governance on GCP.
• AI-native delivery using Gemini/Claude for code, docs, troubleshooting.
• Experience mentoring engineers and guiding technical work.
• Strong comms and collaboration with client teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and manage secure GCP infrastructure with Terraform.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infra changes with code reviews.
• Design and operate cloud networking including VPC, DNS, and load balancing.
• Set up hybrid connectivity with VPN or Interconnect.
• Apply IAM least privilege and policy controls across projects.
• Set up monitoring and logging with Google Cloud Ops, Prometheus or Grafana.
• Improve availability, performance and cost efficiency; support incident response.
• Automate recurring tasks with Python or Bash.
• Leverage AI assistants to develop code and speed up docs.
• Set infrastructure standards and mentor engineers.
• Collaborate with app, security and delivery teams; document designs/runbooks.

Skills

Problem solving

Collaboration

Communication

Mentoring

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Terraform

Compute Engine

GKE

Cloud Storage

IAM

CI/CD

Python or Bash

Job description

Valtech is seeking a Lead Cloud Engineer in the United States to push the boundaries of experience innovation. You bring 7+ years in cloud/infrastructure and deep Google Cloud Platform expertise to design, deploy and secure scalable infrastructure.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and help shape resilient, cost-efficient platforms while leveraging AI assistants to speed up delivery and documentation.