Hiring | Principal Engineer – Cloud Engineering (GCP Platform Technical Lead) | Remote (EST/CST) | USC/GC.
Client: CVS Health (Tier-1 Prime Vendor | Direct Hiring Manager Relationship)
We are hiring a Principal Engineer – Cloud Engineering (Google Cloud Platform) to lead enterprise-scale GCP platform engineering initiatives.
⚠️ Please read before applying.
This is NOT a Solution Architect or Cloud Manager role.
The Hiring Manager is looking for a highly technical, hands-on GCP Platform Engineer who actively writes code, builds cloud infrastructure, develops Terraform modules, automates deployments, and mentors engineering teams.
Required Experience
✔ 10+ years of Infrastructure / Cloud Engineering
✔ 5+ years building enterprise Google Cloud Platform environments
✔ Experience owning an enterprise GCP platform
✔ Experience designing GCP environments from the ground up
✔ Strong coding and automation experience
✔ Recent hands-on engineering experience (not just architecture)
Technical Skills
Google Cloud Platform
• GKE (Autopilot & Standard)
• Cloud Run
• Compute Engine
• BigQuery
• Pub/Sub
• Cloud Composer
• Dataflow
• Cloud Storage
Infrastructure & DevOps
• Terraform
• Cloud Build
• GitHub Actions
• Artifact Registry
• Config Connector
• OPA
Networking
• Shared VPC
• Private Service Connect
• Cloud NAT
• Cloud Armor
• Cloud Interconnect
• HA VPN
• VPC Service Controls
Security
• IAM
• Workload Identity Federation
• Secret Manager
• Binary Authorization
• Security Command Center
Programming
• Python
• Go
• Bash
Preferred
✔ Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
✔ Google DevOps Engineer
✔ Terraform Certification
✔ HIPAA / PCI / SOC2 experience
✔ Vertex AI
✔ Anthos
Location
Remote
Candidates must currently reside in the United States and be available to work Eastern or Central Time Zone business hours.
Work Authorization
US Citizens and Green Card Holders only
Looking For
We're interested in engineers who have recently worked in large U.S. enterprise environments, collaborating directly with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams while building scalable cloud platforms.