GCP Cloud Engineer - Management and Operations (Remote in US)

Job Description

Resultant is building a large health information exchange (HIE) platform for a state government agency that integrates across multiple agencies, external partners, and identity providers. We are seeking an experienced Google Cloud Platform Engineer to stabilize, support and operate the GCP infrastructure in the long term as the initial buildout comes to close. The tenant is owned by the state, and the job requires close coordination with State IT and operating within their strict standards, guidelines and controls. The position requires an experienced, hands-on GCP cloud engineer capable of operating with a high degree of autonomy in a risk-averse, regulated environment where platform reliability, security, and data confidentiality are critical. You will work with Google Cloud Platform infrastructure, Terraform-based deployments, and Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, helping deliver a scalable, compliant, and operationally stable platform aligned with State standards and healthcare data requirements. This is a remote role; however, preference will be given to candidates based in the Indianapolis, IN, Dallas, TX, or Chicago, IL areas.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Stabilization & Operations

• Environment Manager: responsible and accountable for overall health, availability, performance, security, cost and day-to-day operations of the GCP platform and toolset
• Lead efforts to stabilize and optimize the HIE platform, addressing production issues, technical debt, and deployment inconsistencies
• Lead or participate in incident response, monitoring, operational support, governance, root cause analysis, security and vulnerability remediations, and resolution of platform issues
• Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, deployment standards, security artifacts
• Engage with partner teams in a collaborative delivery model

CI/CD & DevOps (Azure DevOps)

• Partner with architecture, security, and data teams to align platform architecture with project deliverables and contractual, regulatory, and operational expectations
• Build and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines for infrastructure and application deployment
• Support migration and alignment of existing GitHub-based pipelines into Azure DevOps
• Implement and maintain repeatable deployment frameworks for containerized platform and application services
• Support application teams with environment configuration and release processes
• Improve deployment reliability and rollback strategies for production releases

Cloud Infrastructure Engineering (GCP)

• Design, implement, maintain, operate GCP infrastructure across DEV, QA, STAGE, PROD etc.
• Manage Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform, aligned with IT-provided baseline services (VPCs, DNS, service accounts), controls and standards
• Implement and maintain secure, scalable cloud patterns including networking, IAM, and service integrations
• Deploy and manage containerized workloads (e.g., Kubernetes/GKE or equivalent)

Healthcare & Data Integration Context

• Support integrations across healthcare, public health, and social services systems
• Work with data ingestion pipelines, secure file transfer (e.g., SFTP/MOVEit), APIs, and new partner onboarding
• Align platform with client's interoperability patterns and data governance expectations

Identity, Access, & Security

• Implement and manage federated identity patterns (BYOC) across multiple Identity Providers (e.g., State systems, State SSO, external IdPs)
• Support role-based access controls and auditability aligned with data access policies
• Collaborate with security stakeholders to support ATO readiness and compliance audits
• Establish, improve and operate industry-standard tools, metrics procedures and governance around security and vulnerability management.

Collaboration, Leadership, & Engagement This role operates within a multi-stakeholder environment and requires direct partnering with State agencies, External healthcare and social services partners, Internal engineering, data, security and audit The position requires a collaborative, delivery-focused mindset, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and provide structured, actionable solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years of extensive, hands-on experience in cloud engineering or DevOps roles primarily on GCP in large mission-critical production environments
• Deep expertise in managing Terraform-based infrastructure deployments
• Strong experience with Azure DevOps (Repos, Pipelines, CI/CD)
• Experience with containerized platforms (Kubernetes, Docker) including container observability
• Proficiency in scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python)
• Experience with Airflow/Cloud Composer especially for orchestrating data pipelines
• Experience with Git-based workflows and release management
• Strong troubleshooting skills in complex, integrated environments
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