[Remote] Sr GCP Cloud Platform Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. OnTrac is a leading provider of same-day and next-day delivery services in the U.S. for premier e-commerce and product-supply businesses. They are hiring a Senior GCP Cloud Platform Engineer to support the transition to a fully automated cloud infrastructure and enhance the CI/CD environment with a focus on standardization and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Lead the transition from manual infrastructure management to a fully automated CI/CD lifecycle in Azure DevOps, bridging the current state to push-button deployments
- Own the Terraform and Ansible ecosystem to ensure changes are made through code, reducing manual tweaks and eliminating configuration drift
- Act as the senior voice with the engineering team to establish standards, share best practices, and guide decisions on adopting new tools
- Help architect the next phase of infrastructure by moving services into modern, elastic environments that support high availability and self-healing
- Lead container strategy by selecting workloads ready for orchestration, setting image standards, and ensuring consistent deployment patterns
- Define critical system health metrics with the team and participate in the on-call rotation to keep 24/7 delivery services operational and resilient
Skills
- 5+ years in Cloud Infrastructure, Systems Engineering, or Platform Operations
- Hands-on experience managing Google Cloud (GCP) environments, specifically Shared VPCs, IAM hierarchies, and Cloud SQL
- Strong Linux administration skills; a “Linux-first” troubleshooter comfortable at the command line when deployments fail
- Proven experience building and managing automated release flows in Azure DevOps (e.g., Pipelines/Releases/Boards)
- High proficiency with Terraform and Ansible, including organizing existing code into a professional, modular library
- Strong understanding of the “why” and “how” behind containerization, including evaluating when workloads should move to a managed container platform vs. staying on VMs
- Experience designing and managing auto-scaling compute environments and container orchestration to handle variable traffic without manual intervention
- Ability to understand application dependencies and troubleshoot build/deployment errors to unblock developers in mixed environments
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Life and short- and long-term disability coverage
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match
- Flex vacation in states other than CA, CO, IL, MA, MT, and NE, with accruals up to 96 hours for first year of employment with tenure-based increases up to 160 hours
- Two (2) floating holidays per year
- Paid sick leave*
- Six (6) paid company holidays
- Two (2) weeks paid pregnancy disability leave, four (4) weeks paid parental bonding leave
- Additional wellness and employee assistance programs
- Washington state employees are eligible for up to 56 hours of paid sick leave annually.
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