Google Cloud Platform Lead

Job Summary

The role is responsible for working with teams across the organisation to develop and build the re-usable or shared service components of the Cloud Platform.

Responsibilities

• Manage, prioritize, and run the day-to-day sprint workload for the Google Cloud team, mentoring engineers, reviewing code, and ensuring we deliver on our project commitments.
• Design and maintain our enterprise Google landing zones, keeping our Resource Hierarchy, Projects, hub-spoke/VPC networking, and Org Policies structured and compliant.
• Write, test, and maintain reusable, production-ready Terraform modules, establish release cycles published within Terraform Cloud Registry.
• Design and optimize automated deployment workflows using GitHub Actions and HCP Terraform to enable reliable, zero-touch platform deployments.
• Partner with application, data, and security teams across the business to turn common requirements into self-service, reusable cloud platform components.
• Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex platform troubleshooting, performance tuning, and incident resolution in a 24/7 enterprise production environment.

What youll need

• 7+ years of experience across Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, and DevOps, including proven experience in a Team Lead, Tech Lead, or Team Management capacity.
• Desired Professional Certifications:
  • Google Certified Professional - Cloud Architect
  • Hashicorp Certified: Terraform Associate (004)
• Strong background designing, deploying, and running enterprise-scale workloads on Google Cloud.
• Extensive practical experience authoring modular Terraform code, managing state at scale, and using Terraform Cloud for team collaboration and governance.
• Familiarity with the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework. Proven ability to build, maintain, and troubleshoot multi-environment CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or other automation platforms.
• Practical knowledge of Google Cloud Identity, Goole RBAC, Google Workload Identity Federation, Google Workforce Identity Federation, Secret Manager, and Organization Policy enforcement.
• Hands-on experience working with Agile/Scrum delivery practices, modern GitOps workflows, and operational frameworks (e.g., ITIL v4 processes, incident management).
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, clear written and verbal communication, and a strong track record of diagnosing and resolving complex infrastructure issues

Who you are

You're open: we are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: we approach all that we do with confidence: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: We are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What well give you

Passionate, inspired people - we champion a culture of people that do extraordinary work

Scale and opportunity - we offer the opportunity to create, influence and deliver projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work - unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers.

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