Google Cloud Platform Engineer

Job Description

We’re hiring a Google Cloud Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and operate scalable, secure cloud infrastructure and platform services. You’ll partner with product and engineering teams to build automated, observable, and cost-efficient solutions on GCP—moving workloads to containers, automating infra with IaC, and hardening the environment for production scale.

About Perficient

Perficient is the global AI and technology consulting firm disrupting the traditional consulting model. Powered by our 7,000+ advisors, engineers, and designers, Perficient implements AI-first solutions that break conventions and deliver outcomes that matter. Proudly serving clients that represent the world’s most innovative brands, and in collaboration with our powerful technology partner ecosystem, we bring deep industry expertise and data-driven design to redefine how businesses run and succeed. Perficient is different. For real. Learn more at perficient.com .

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain GCP infrastructure using Terraform (or Deployment Manager) and GitOps-style CI/CD pipelines.
• Deploy, operate, and optimize containerized applications on GKE; manage autoscaling, networking, and service mesh components as needed.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Cloud Build, Jenkins, or equivalent) and automate release processes to reduce manual intervention.
• Implement and enforce CI/CD security controls, secrets management, and secure service-to-service authentication.
• Configure and manage networking (VPCs, Shared VPC, Cloud NAT, VPN/Interconnect) and hybrid connectivity patterns.
• Implement observability: logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting (Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Manage IAM, service accounts, and least-privilege access patterns; collaborate with Security/Compliance on policy as code.
• Drive cost visibility and optimization (labels, budgets, committed use discounts, rightsizing).
• Create runbooks, playbooks, and incident response procedures; participate in on-call rotation and post-incident reviews.
• Mentor junior engineers, review infrastructure code, and contribute to platform standards and best practices.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of Strong hands-on experience with GCP core services (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Pub/Sub).
• Proven Terraform (or equivalent IaC) experience and Git-based workflows.
• Solid Kubernetes knowledge: deployments, operators, networking, storage, and security.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD (Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.).
• Proficient scripting skills (Python, Bash, or Go) for automation and tooling.
• Practical knowledge of networking, DNS, load balancing, and hybrid cloud connectivity.
• Experience with observability tooling and incident management.
• Strong understanding of cloud security fundamentals and identity management.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support data-informed task execution.
• Familiarity with AI-enhanced platforms is a plus.
• A solid understanding of AI capabilities and limitations including ethical considerations is expected.
• Solid foundation in Computer Science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and software design.
• GCP Professional Cloud Engineer or Professional Cloud Architect certification.
• Prior experience with multi‑tenant platforms or large-scale migration projects.
• Familiarity with service meshes (Istio/Anthos), policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper), and CI/CD security scanning.
• Experience with data services (BigQuery, Dataflow) or event-driven architectures (Pub/Sub).
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
• Strong troubleshooting mindset and commitment to operational excellence.

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Applications will be accepted until the position is filled or the posting is removed.

The salary range for this position takes into consideration a variety of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, level of experience, applicable office location, training, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. The new hire salary range displays the minimum and maximum salary targets for this position across all US locations, and the range has not been adjusted for any specific state differentials. It is not typical for a candidate to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent on the unique facts and circumstances regarding each candidate. A reasonable estimate of the current salary range for this position is $83,300.00 to $149,880.00. Please note that the salary range posted reflects the base salary only and does not include benefits or any potential variable compensation programs. Information regarding the benefits available for this position are in our benefits overview.

**Disclaimer:* The above statements are not intended to be a complete statement of job content, rather to act as a guide to the essential functions performed by the employee assigned to this classification. Management retains the discretion to add or change the duties of the position at any time.**About Us*

Perficient is the global AI and technology consulting firm disrupting the traditional consulting model. Powered by our 7,000+ advisors, engineers, and designers, Perficient implements AI-first solutions that break conventions and deliver outcomes that matter. Proudly serving clients that represent the world’s most innovative brands, and in collaboration with our powerful technology partner ecosystem, we bring deep industry expertise and data-driven design to redefine how businesses run and succeed. Perficient is different. For real. Learn more at perficient.com .

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