Manager - Google Cloud Infrastructure

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About The Role We are seeking a Lead/Principal GCP Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to own the design, standardization, and operation of enterprise Google Cloud infrastructure at scale. This is a technical leadership role responsible for landing zone and platform architecture, automation and governance frameworks, reliability and cost optimization, and for guiding engineering teams and engaging senior stakeholders and vendors.

In This Role, You Will

• Lead the design and implementation of GCP landing zones, organization/folder/project structures, and platform foundations using Organization Policies and the Cloud Architecture Framework.
• Defining and own infrastructure standards, reference architectures, and reusable Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred) modules consumed across teams.
• Architect and govern networking at scale — Shared VPC, Network Connectivity Center, Cloud VPN/Interconnect, Cloud DNS, Private Service Connect, IPAM, and egress/SASE controls — within GCP service limits.
• Establish governance, security, and compliance frameworks — Organization Policies, IAM/identity models, Cloud KMS/Secret Manager strategy, VPC Service Controls, labels, and security baselines.
• Drive reliability engineering — multi-zone/multi-region HA and DR design, backup strategy, capacity/quota planning, observability, and SLOs.
• Own cloud cost governance (FinOps) — optimization strategy, budgeting, rightsizing, and chargeback/showback models.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of infrastructure programs and POCs, including orchestration/automation and migration/consolidation efforts.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring; conduct architecture and code reviews; raise engineering maturity.
• Engage senior stakeholders, security/architecture review boards, and vendors (e.g., Google, Zscaler) on design validation and roadmap.
• Evaluate emerging GCP services and define adoption recommendations and standards.
• Lead complex troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for high-impact incidents, driving corrective/preventive actions.

What You Must Have To Be Considered

• 6–10 years in cloud infrastructure, with deep hands-on GCP expertise at enterprise scale.
• Strong architecture experience across GCP compute, storage, networking, identity (IAM/Cloud Identity), and key managed services.
• Expert-level Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) — framework/module design, CI/CD, and policy-as-code.
• Proven experience with landing zones, multi-project governance, and resource-hierarchy/Organization Policy design.
• Deep networking knowledge — hybrid connectivity, routing/BGP, segmentation, DNS, IPAM, and egress control; strong grasp of service limits and capacity planning.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, zero-trust principles, governance, and compliance frameworks.
• Experience leading delivery and mentoring engineers; strong stakeholder communication.
• Automation proficiency (Python, Gcloud CLI).

These will help you succeed

• Multi-cloud exposure (Azure and/or AWS) and multi-cloud governance experience.
• Experience with containers (GKE), GitOps, and platform-engineering practices.
• Familiarity with egress/SASE tooling (e.g., Zscaler) and large-scale IP remediation.
• Exposure to orchestration-based provisioning and project-vending automation.
• Certifications: Google Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Cloud Network Engineer, or Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer.

Work Model We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 2-3 days a week in a client or Cognizant office in Pune/Hyderabad/Kolkata/Bangalore/Coimbatore. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs. The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations. We're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. Think about your transferable experiences and unique skills that make you stand out as someone who can bring new and exciting things to this role.