GCP Cloud Engineer

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