Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Valtech is hiring a Lead Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate secure Google Cloud Platform infrastructure. The role focuses on infrastructure automation, cloud networking, CI/CD, governance, reliability, and mentoring while collaborating with application, security, and delivery teams.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy and manage secure GCP infrastructure with Terraform, including reusable modules, remote state and environment promotion
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure changes, with code review, policy checks and automated validation
- Design and operate cloud networking: VPC architectures, subnets, firewall rules, Cloud NAT, Cloud DNS and load balancing
- Set up hybrid connectivity with Cloud VPN or Cloud Interconnect and manage shared networking across projects
- Apply IAM least privilege, organization policies, service accounts and secrets management across projects
- Set up monitoring, logging and alerting with Google Cloud Operations Suite, Prometheus or Grafana
- Improve availability, performance and cost efficiency, and support incident response and root cause analysis
- Automate recurring operational tasks with Python or Bash
- Use AI assistants such as Gemini and Claude to develop and review infrastructure code, and to speed up documentation and troubleshooting
- Set infrastructure standards, review changes and mentor other engineers
- Work with application, security and delivery teams, and document designs and runbooks
Skills
- **[7+ years]** of experience
- A curious problem solver who challenges the status quo
- A collaborator who values teamwork and knowledge-sharing
- Excited by the intersection of technology, creativity and data
- **[7+ years]** in cloud or infrastructure engineering, including **[3+ years]** of hands-on experience with **Google Cloud Platform**
- **Expert-level infrastructure and networking skills within GCP**, including VPC design, firewalls, load balancing, DNS, shared VPC, and VPN or Interconnect
- Hands-on experience with **Terraform** building and maintaining infrastructure as code
- Working knowledge of core GCP services such as Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage and IAM
- Experience with CI/CD tools and **Python or Bash**
- Experience designing **landing zones**, resource hierarchy and governance on GCP
- Experience with **AI-native delivery**, using AI assistants to develop code and automate infrastructure work, with familiarity with **Gemini** and **Claude**
- Experience guiding technical work or mentoring other engineers
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach with client teams
- Experienced in Agile methodologies and consulting (a plus)
- Google Cloud certification, such as **Professional Cloud Architect**, **Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer** or **Professional Cloud Network Engineer**
- **HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate**
- Experience with **data center to GCP migrations**
- Experience operating **Kubernetes (GKE)**
- Experience with observability tools such as Cloud Operations Suite, Prometheus and Grafana
Benefits
- Flexibility, with remote and hybrid work options (country-dependent)
- Career advancement, with international mobility and professional development programs
- Learning and development, with access to cutting-edge tools, training and industry experts
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, plus employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
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