Senior Google Cloud Platform Engineer

Job Title: Google Cloud Expert

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients' businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

We are seeking an experienced Google Cloud expert to lead the design, implementation, and management of scalable, secure, and resilient cloud solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The ideal candidate will hold a GCP Professional Certification and possess deep knowledge of all major GCP services. Hands-on experience designing large-scale enterprise landing zones and infrastructure as code using Terraform is essential.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and build enterprise-grade cloud architectures and landing zones on GCP that are scalable, secure, and aligned with business goals.
• Lead the deployment and management of cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, primarily Terraform.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineering, security, and operations to ensure proper integration, automation, and governance of cloud environments.
• Provide expert guidance on GCP services including Compute, Networking, Storage, Big Data, Security, and AI/ML services to architect optimal solutions.
• Implement and enforce security best practices and compliance frameworks using GCP security products and controls.
• Develop cloud migration strategies and lead migrations of complex enterprise workloads to Google Cloud.
• Maintain current knowledge of Google Cloud Platform advancements and best practices to continuously improve architecture design.
• Support troubleshooting and optimization of cloud solutions and help drive cost efficiency initiatives.

Required Qualifications:

• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification (or equivalent).
• Comprehensive understanding of core GCP services (Compute Engine, GKE, VPC, IAM, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Networking, etc.).
• Knowledge of GCP logging, observability, SRE.
• Proven experience architecting and implementing enterprise-scale landing zones and multi-project cloud environments.
• Proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure automation and managing cloud resources as code.
• Ability to write advanced reusable terraform modules.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security principles, identity, and access management.
• Experience with cloud networking concepts including VPC, VPN, hybrid connectivity, and private service connect.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD Pipelines in a globally distributed environment using Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, Docker registry, ELK and deploying applications on GCP.
• Understanding of cost management and cloud financial governance best practices.

Nice to Have:

• Hands on knowledge of Helm charts.
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing Kubernetes infrastructure with Terraform Enterprise.
• Hands-on Python and Unix shell scripting is required.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and/or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) is a plus.

Benefits of Working Here:

• Flexible vacation policy; time is not limited, allocated, or accrued.
• 16 paid holidays throughout the year.
• Generous parental leave and new parent transition program.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Corporate gift matching program.
• Pay Range: $145,000 - $170,000.

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at View email address on click.appcast.io or you may call us at View phone number on click.appcast.io. Your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.