Talent Wave Associates is seeking a Google Cloud Engineer to drive innovation and secure cloud solutions in a dynamic AI environment. The role involves enabling enterprise AI adoption on the Google Cloud Platform and working closely with business teams to create secure, scalable, and innovative cloud solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with business and AI innovation teams to develop secure GCP solutions
- Design, implement, and support GCP services, focusing on IAM, networking, compute, storage, security, automation, logging, and monitoring
- Establish and maintain practical GCP standards and guardrails
- Create reference architectures, checklists, and recommended patterns
- Advise on and promote safer alternatives to risky approaches
- Communicate IT and security concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Articulate tradeoffs, risks, and operational impacts of solutions
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security, networking, and architecture teams
- Support a multi-cloud enterprise environment, including AWS, Azure, OCI, and GCP
- Document patterns and decisions for reuse and operational handoff
Requirements:
- Approximately 5 years of experience in cloud or infrastructure engineering
- Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools
- Comfort working directly with senior business stakeholders
- Strong consulting, communication, and influence skills
- Solid understanding of enterprise IT governance and security practices
- Google Cloud certifications (preferred, not required)
- Experience supporting AI or innovation initiatives
- Exposure to hybrid or multi-cloud enterprise environments
- Experience in distribution, supply chain, or B2B environments