Senior GCP Cloud & Kubernetes Engineer (Hybrid)

Public Storage; Frisco (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Public Storage in Frisco, TX, seeks a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, deploy, and manage enterprise GCP infrastructure and Windows components. You will drive scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud solutions while guiding projects and collaborating with development, security, and IT teams.

The role emphasizes automation with IaC, GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines, strong knowledge of GCP services and GKE, and partnership across cloud, security, and operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• An equivalent combination of education and relevant experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.
• Preferred: Google Cloud Professional, Cloud Architect, Professional Data Engineer, or other relevant Google Cloud certification.
• Preferred: Datadog certification or demonstrated hands-on experience with Datadog monitoring and logging.

Responsibilities

• Designs, deploys, manages, and optimizes GCP infrastructure and core services, including Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, VPC networks, load balancing, Cloud CDN, and related platform components, to meet availability, scalability, performance, and cost requirements.
• Designs and supports Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) environments and collaborates with development teams to integrate, deploy, and operate applications using reliable container and cloud architecture practices.
• Leads or contributes to cloud and infrastructure projects, manages assigned milestones and stakeholder communications, maintains technical and operational documentation, and provides technical guidance and support to IT team members.
• Investigates and resolves complex cloud, server, networking, and platform incidents; evaluates possible causes and recovery options, coordinates escalation when needed, and supports backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities.
• Designs, administers, and troubleshoots Windows Server and Active Directory services that support cloud and enterprise infrastructure, including integration, authentication, availability, and operational support requirements.
• Monitors cloud infrastructure, logging, capacity, performance, reliability, and cost using GCP tools and Datadog; analyzes trends and exceptions and recommends or implements corrective and optimization actions.
• Automates cloud and infrastructure operations using infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, PowerShell, Python, Bash, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, Bitbucket, Jenkins, or similar technologies to improve consistency, security, and operational efficiency.

Skills

GCP

GKE

IaC & automation

Cloud security

CI/CD pipelines

Windows Server/AD

Datadog

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Git

PowerShell

Python

Jenkins

Bitbucket

Job description

Public Storage in Frisco, TX, seeks a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, deploy, and manage enterprise GCP infrastructure and Windows components. You will drive scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud solutions while guiding projects and collaborating with development, security, and IT teams.

The role emphasizes automation with IaC, GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines, strong knowledge of GCP services and GKE, and partnership across cloud, security, and operations.