GCP DevOps/ Cloud Engineer

Job Description

Position : GCP DevOps/ Cloud Engineer (Associate level)

Location : Dallas, TX Hybrid (3 days a week onsite & must be willing to relocate and be onsite on day 1)

Duration : Long term contract

Responsibilities

• Provides intermediate level technical support for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) engineering with minimal oversight.
• Designs, implements, and deploys custom cloud platform configuration via IaC to support and meet business needs. Identifies opportunities for improvement, escalating as necessary.
• Monitors and supports health of GCP platform through the use of monitoring tools and applications. Maintains proficient knowledge of cloud software and infrastructure platforms.
• Trains and mentors staff and IT project teams, providing guidance and consultation as required. Writes and maintains documentation for the department.
• Administers systems by actively managing patching, routine maintenance and backups to include the scheduling and execution of related tasks. Evaluating system performance and capacity in a large distributed infrastructure environment.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of total experience with 4+ years Google Cloud experience is a must have.
• Along with Terraform/Github Infrastructure as code experience.

Additional info:

Team responsibilities:

• The team is currently focused on building out Google Cloud Platform (GCP) capabilities.
• The primary goal is to hire someone to support day-to-day (BAU) operations and platform engineering—not a data-focused role.

Why GCP:

• Vanguard has a multi-cloud strategy, already running Azure and some Google workloads.
• The focus now is on formalizing their GCP footprint, implementing governance and controls.
• There’s a growing interest in AI/LLM workloads, but this particular role is not focused on AI—it’s purely infrastructure/platform-related.

Position requirements/details:

• The new hire will be supporting the GCP landing zone and core infrastructure (networking, storage, compute).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience is critical—Terraform is the preferred tool.

Skill Matrix

Skills / Tools

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Terraform (IaC)
• GitHub / Git (CI/CD & IaC)
• Cloud Networking (VPC, Subnets, Firewall Rules)
• Compute & Storage (GCE, GKE, Buckets, Persistent Disks)
• Monitoring & Logging (Stackdriver / Cloud Monitoring)
• Linux System Administration
• Patch Management & Backup Ops
• Multi-Cloud (Azure + GCP)