Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
Location: Austin, TX (Partial Remote) | C2C

About the Role
Are you a highly skilled Cloud Platform Engineer ready to make an impact at scale? Join our Cloud Engineering team, where you'll bridge the gap between platform reliability and product excellence in a dynamic, hybrid work environment. As a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, you will serve as the trusted Cloud Engineering partner for product and vendor teams, driving architecture, automation, and operational best practices across GCP and Azure.

Responsibilities

- Act as the embedded Cloud Engineering contact for assigned product and vendor delivery teams throughout the product lifecycle.
- Translate complex requirements into secure, scalable cloud designs using GCP and Azure, ensuring alignment with published standards.
- Build and manage Infrastructure as Code in Terraform, developing and maintaining reusable modules and remote state in CI workflows.
- Lead first deployments, validate environments, resolve defects, and support smooth go-lives.
- Provide operational support post-launch, quickly diagnosing and resolving issues related to access, connectivity, capacity, cost, and security.
- Review infrastructure code, architecture decisions, and pull requests to ensure compliance with Cloud Engineering standards.
- Implement and optimize security controls including VPC Service Controls, organization policies, and Identity-Aware Proxy.
- Collaborate with external partners to ensure secure, compliant, and reliable cloud solutions.
- Contribute to shared Terraform module libraries and document reusable assets for future projects.
- Maintain traceability of your work through Jira and clear, concise documentation.

Required Skills and Experience

- 10+ years in hands-on cloud, platform, or solutions engineering roles supporting application teams.
- Expertise with Google Cloud Platform: projects, IAM, Shared VPC, Private Service Connect, Cloud DNS, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, and Pub/Sub.
- Proficient in Microsoft Azure: subscriptions, Entra ID, virtual networking, Azure Firewall.
- Advanced Terraform skills: module authoring, remote state management, CI integration.
- CI/CD pipeline experience in Azure DevOps or Cloud Build with Workload Identity Federation.
- Strong grasp of cloud networking, DNS, TLS, OAuth2/OIDC, least-privilege design.
- Proven ability to diagnose production issues using logs, audit trails, and IAM policy state.
- Direct collaboration with product owners and developers on requirements and documentation.
- Excellent written communication for design rationale, reviews, and handoffs.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Skills

- Google Professional Cloud Architect or Azure Solutions Architect Expert certifications.
- Experience with VPC Service Controls, org policy, domain-restricted sharing on GCP.
- Familiarity with Apigee X, GKE/Kubernetes, Pub/Sub, Kafka, or event-driven integration.
- Experience as the cloud-side counterpart to vendor-delivered platforms.
- FinOps exposure: cost estimation, spend review.
- Background in Product, Agile, or DevSecOps frameworks.
- Understanding of supply chain, distribution, or logistics domains.

Benefits

- Competitive compensation and partial remote flexibility.
- Collaborative, high-impact engineering culture focused on innovation and growth.
- Exposure to leading cloud technologies across GCP and Azure.
- Opportunity to influence cloud engineering standards and best practices.
- Professional growth through challenging projects and cross-team collaboration.

How to Apply
Ready to engineer the future of cloud platforms? Submit your resume and a brief cover letter outlining your relevant experience.