Senior Google Cloud Engineer - GKE, IaC & CloudOps

Laveer Engineering; Cranberry Township (Butler County); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 142,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical benefits

401(k) with company match

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

Westinghouse Electric Company in Cranberry Township, PA, seeks a Principal Google Cloud Engineer to provide hands-on engineering, deployment, and operational support for Google Cloud Platform environments.

You will work with application teams to deploy workloads, manage GKE clusters, IAM, VPCs, and data services, using Terraform and gcloud to automate and govern resources. This hybrid role includes on-call rotation.

Qualifications

• BS, Computer Science, Information Systems or Related Field or related experience.
• 5+ years of enterprise systems administration or cloud engineering.
• 2+ years of hands-on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) engineering experience.
• Proficient in the administration and operation of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services supporting applications and projects.
• Hands-on experience deploying and supporting applications on GCP compute and container services (Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Cloud Run).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and GCP networking, including VPCs, firewall rules, and load balancing
• Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines and containerized workloads (Docker and Kubernetes/GKE).
• Understanding of Google Cloud governance concepts such as projects, folders, IAM, organization policies, and cost management.
• Proficient in the gcloud CLI and scripting (Python and Bash) to automate operational and support tasks.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and operate workloads on GCP with standardized deployment patterns and self-service tooling.
• Provide engineering-level support for GCP-hosted applications, including deployment support, environment configuration, and production issue resolution.
• Deploy and manage containerized workloads using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), including cluster configuration, scaling, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
• Create and manage Google Cloud Platform resources for project and application workloads following approved architecture and standards, including projects and folders, IAM, and VPC networking constructs.
• Manage Compute, container, and platform services (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, App Engine) and Managed data/storage services (Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Pub/Sub).
• Help with Google Cloud organization hygiene, governance enforcement, and lifecycle management of cloud resources.
• Support Google Cloud cost management activities, including usage analysis, labeling adherence, budget alerts, and billing review.
• Troubleshoot Google Cloud Platform issues and partner with architecture, security, and infrastructure teams for resolution.
• Use automation and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, gcloud CLI, Cloud SDK, and Python) to improve operational efficiency across GCP environments.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using Google Cloud's operations suite to ensure platform and application health.
• Participate in on-call rotation to support a 24/7 global enterprise.

Skills

GCP engineering

Cloud administration

CI/CD pipelines

Python scripting

IaC best practices

Education

BS in Computer Science / Information Systems

Tools

Terraform

gcloud CLI

Cloud SDK

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Westinghouse Electric Company in Cranberry Township, PA, seeks a Principal Google Cloud Engineer to provide hands-on engineering, deployment, and operational support for Google Cloud Platform environments.

You will work with application teams to deploy workloads, manage GKE clusters, IAM, VPCs, and data services, using Terraform and gcloud to automate and govern resources. This hybrid role includes on-call rotation.