Senior Google Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

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About The Role We are seeking a Senior GCP Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement, and operate enterprise-grade infrastructure on Google Cloud. The role combines hands-on engineering with solution ownership — building automation, enforcing governance and security standards, mentoring junior engineers, and contributing to landing zone and platform design with limited supervision.

In This Role, You Will

• Design, deploy, and manage GCP infrastructure at scale — Compute Engine / Managed Instance Groups, persistent disks/File store, Cloud Storage, VPCs, and Cloud Load Balancing — across multiple projects.
• Own Infrastructure-as-Code delivery using Terraform (preferred) or Deployment Manager/Config Connector, including reusable modules and CI/CD integration.
• Contribute to landing zone, project vending, and governance design using the GCP resource hierarchy, Organization Policies, and the Cloud Architecture Framework.
• Implement and manage IAM roles/policies, service accounts, Cloud Identity, Cloud KMS, Secret Manager, and VPC Service Controls.
• Design and operate networking — Shared VPC, VPC peering, Cloud VPN/Interconnect, Cloud Router, Cloud NAT, Cloud DNS, and Private Service Connect — within platform service limits.
• Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and observability using the Cloud Operations suite; drive reliability improvements.
• Lead operational activities — patching strategy, backup/DR, capacity planning, cost optimization (FinOps), and resource governance.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, connectivity, and security issues; perform root-cause analysis.
• Manage GCP quotas and limits, raising increase requests and designing scalable, limit-aware architectures.
• Mentor junior engineers, review IaaC and designs, and contribute to standards and runbooks.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, networking, and application teams on solution delivery.

What You Must Have To Be Considered

• 4–6 years of hands-on GCP infrastructure experience with independent solution delivery.
• Strong command of GCP core services — Compute, Storage, VPC networking, IAM, Cloud KMS, and key managed services.
• Proven Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform preferred) with module design and CI/CD integration.
• Solid scripting skills (Python, gcloud CLI; Bash a plus).
• Strong networking knowledge — TCP/IP, DNS, routing, BGP basics, hybrid connectivity (Cloud VPN/Interconnect), and segmentation.
• Working knowledge of GCP governance — resource hierarchy, Organization Policies, Cloud Asset Inventory, labels, and security baselines.
• Understanding of GCP quotas/limits and capacity/cost planning.
• Experience with monitoring, DR/backup, and operational best practices.

These will help you succeed

• Exposure to landing zone implementation, multi-project governance, or security foundations blueprint.
• Familiarity with containers (GKE), and secondary exposure to Azure or AWS.
• Awareness of egress control / SASE tooling (e.g., Zscaler) and zero-trust networking.
• Certifications: Google Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Cloud Network Engineer, or Associate Cloud 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.