Senior GCP Infra & IaC Engineer - Automation & Reliability

Photon; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Photon is seeking an experienced Cloud Infrastructure / IaC Engineer to design, build, and automate scalable cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The role emphasizes repeatable provisioning, reliability, and operational efficiency across environments, partnering with application and platform teams.

You will implement IaC, monitor with Datadog and Grafana, maintain code in GitHub, and use Jira for planning.

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.
• Understanding of secure coding and infrastructure security practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and manage cloud infrastructure on GCP.
• Develop and maintain 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

Cloud infrastructure

GCP

IaC

DevOps

Monitoring

Tools

GitHub

Jira

Datadog

Grafana

Job description

Photon is seeking an experienced Cloud Infrastructure / IaC Engineer to design, build, and automate scalable cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The role emphasizes repeatable provisioning, reliability, and operational efficiency across environments, partnering with application and platform teams.

You will implement IaC, monitor with Datadog and Grafana, maintain code in GitHub, and use Jira for planning.