Job Title: Lead GCP Platform Engineer

Location ; Springfield, MO (Onsite)

Long Term Contract 

No H1B, No GC, No GC Ead's

Job Summary

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced GCP Lead Platform Engineer to join our team in the US and lead ongoing Greenfield projects in GCP for one of our customers.

Responsibilities:

• Support ongoing application deployments in various GCP environments like Development, Testing, UAT, Preproduction and Production
• Develop and maintain IaC code for GCP environment deployments
• Manage and maintain CI/CD pipelines for the UI and API Applications
• Maintain Code Quality in the CI pipelines using Static Code Analysis tools and libraries.
• Help integrate UI applications with CDN for optimization and caching
• Work with Platform Engineering and Automation teams to coordinate Firewall changes
• Plan and work on controlled Production applications releases through Change Management processes
• Revise and maintain documentation related to GCP
• Collaborate with onsite cross-functional teams to understand application requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues related to GCP infrastructure and services.
• Stay updated with the latest GCP features, tools, and best practices.
• Participate in Scrum ceremonies and provide daily updates of the work progress
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to offshore GCP Lead Platform engineers.
• Provide after-hours and on-call support (CT time zone) for the underlying GCP infrastructure running various Applications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field
• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience with GCP
• Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience with Terraform
• Minimum of 3 years of CI/CD tools – Jenkins, SonarQube
• Minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience with Docker and Containerization
• Minimum of 2 years of Scripting experience in Bash/Shell, Groovy (for Jenkins)
• Proficiency in GCP services and concepts such as: GKE, Artifact Registry, Cloud Armor, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Big Query, Bigtable, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Spanner, Cloud Functions,

Memory store, Load Balancers, Cloud DNS, Shared VPC, Private Service Connect, Private Google Access, VPC Firewall rules and VPC Peering

• Excellent understanding of Networking (including VPC, VPN, and Partner interconnect), Security, and IAM in GCP
• Exposure to these Atlassian tools is required: JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket
• Working knowledge on YAML and JSON is mandatory
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication, documentation, presentation, and collaboration skills.

Nice to have:

• Any GCP Cloud certification is a big plus
• Experience with GCP Apigee API management and Microservices architecture is a big plus
• Experience in Security Command Center (SCC) and Network Command Center (NCC) is a big plus
• Experience with build tools like NPM (NodeJS) and Gradle (Java) is highly desirable.
• Working knowledge about Akamai integration is highly desirable
• Experience with Snyk (Security) is a plus.
• Experience with Dynatrace, Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring is a plus.
• Experience with Data Engineering products like Dataflow, DataStream, and Database Migration Service is a plus
• Knowledge of GCP cloud cost management and optimization strategies is a plus.