GCP Platform Engineer

Brooksource is seeking a GCP-dominant Platform Engineer who operates at the infrastructure and platform level within Google Cloud. The role focuses on enabling and operating a platform that consolidates enterprise data into BigQuery to support analytics and reporting, while collaborating closely with product, QA, and data engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• Build, maintain, and review infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and Git-based workflows
• Participate in pull request reviews and collaborate on platform design and implementation
• Design and operate cloud-native services within Google Cloud, including: Cloud Run for containerized workloads, BigQuery, Apigee, IAM, networking, and GCP project design
• Partner closely with Data Engineers, QA, and application teams to understand workload behavior and performance
• Monitor and improve reliability, observability, and operational performance of cloud workloads
• Support event-driven and streaming use cases using Confluent (managed Kafka)
• Enable development teams through standardized, self-service platform capabilities
• Balance governance, cost, security, and delivery velocity across the platform

Requirements:

• 4–8 years of experience as a Platform Engineer, Cloud Engineer, or Infrastructure Engineer
• Google Cloud is the dominant cloud in your recent experience (50% or more)
• Strong hands-on experience with: Terraform
• Git and pull request workflows
• Google Cloud IAM and networking
• Cloud Run
• BigQuery
• Experience working closely with data engineering teams and data pipelines
• Ability to reason across the full stack, from infrastructure design to runtime performance and troubleshooting
• Experience supporting production workloads in cloud environments