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Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer; GCP

Job in Schaumburg, Cook County, Illinois, 60159, USA
Listing for: NMI
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-02-28
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Systems Engineer, Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 125000 - 160000 USD Yearly USD 125000.00 160000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer (GCP)

We are seeking an execution-driven and technically seasoned Senior Cloud Engineer with a strong focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), infrastructure automation, and security-first cloud architecture. As the primary GCP specialist within an experienced Cloud Ops team, you will partner closely with multi-cloud engineers while owning the design, operation, and evolution of our GCP environments. This role is ideal for someone with 5+ years of experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms in production, implementing scalable networking strategies, and hardening environments through thoughtful IAM and security controls.

You will play a key role in building reliable, secure, and observable systems that support mission-critical workloads.

This is a fully remote role (based in the US or Canada), with occasional travel (1–2 times per year) for in-person collaboration, covered by NMI. If you live near a company office, occasional in-person collaboration is encouraged.

The Ideal Candidate
  • Has a proven track record implementing low-toil, infrastructure as code cloud infrastructure on GCP
  • Builds secure-by-default environments with strong IAM design, least privilege, and guardrails
  • Understands GCP networking deeply, including shared VPC design, segmentation, routing, and private connectivity patterns
  • Is comfortable operating production systems with an observability-first mindset
  • Enjoys cross-functional collaboration with distributed teams across infrastructure, engineering, and security
  • Can lead technical initiatives end-to-end while remaining hands-on
  • Ideally has experience with Big Query and Bigtable in production environments
Key Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure and Reliability:

  • Design, implement, and operate production GCP infrastructure with high availability, scalability, and resilience
  • Ensure high reliability and performance of services, proactively resolving issues before customer impact
  • Participate in on-call rotations and drive post-incident reviews and blameless post-mortems
  • Collaborate with other engineers to ensure cross-cloud consistency in areas such as IAM philosophy, tagging, observability standards, Terraform patterns, and security controls.
IAM and Security Implementation
  • Design and maintain IAM strategies (least privilege, service accounts, role design, separation of duties)
  • Implement and operationalize security controls such as organization policies, audit logging, and key management
  • Partner with security teams to meet compliance requirements and improve cloud security posture Networking Strategy
Networking Strategy and Architecture
  • Architect GCP networking patterns including VPCs, shared VPCs, firewall policies, routing, load balancing, and private service access
  • Drive secure connectivity patterns between services and environments (prod/non-prod), including hybrid connectivity where applicable
  • Troubleshoot complex network and connectivity issues across cloud services
Automation and Tooling
  • Lead automation initiatives for provisioning and operational tasks using infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines
  • Build and maintain tooling and standards for observability (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting)
  • Continuously improve developer experience through reusable modules, templates, and documentation
Data Platform Enablement (Preferred)
  • Support and optimize cloud data services such as Big Query and Big Table, including security, access patterns, and performance considerations
  • Collaborate with engineering and analytics stakeholders on scalable data workflows and governance
Qualifications And Experience

Required:
  • 5+ years in cloud engineering, SRE, Dev Ops, or infrastructure engineering roles with significant GCP experience
  • Strong hands-on experience with GCP IAM, including service accounts, custom roles, and least privilege design
  • Strong understanding of GCP networking, including VPC design, routing, firewalling, load balancing, and private connectivity patterns
  • Experience implementing cloud security controls and best practices (logging, encryption, key management, policy guardrails)
  • Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code and automation (Terraform strongly preferred) and scripting (Python, Bash, or Go)
  • Experience operating production environments with strong troubleshooting skills and an observability mindset
Preferred:
  • Experience with Big Query and Bigtable (security, access management, performance tuning, and operations)
  • Experience with Kubernetes on GKE
  • Familiarity with SIEM/SOAR tooling or cloud security posture management approaches
  • Google Cloud certifications are a plus (Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Cloud Security Engineer, Professional Cloud Network Engineer, etc.)
  • Experience in agile teams (Scrum, Kanban) and fast-moving scale-up environments
  • Hands-on Git Lab experience is a plus
As well as being a part of something exciting everyday, you will also receive the following benefits:
  • Annual salary of $125,000 - $160,000 + bonus
  • A remote first culture!
  • Flex PTO
  • Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
  • 13 Paid…
Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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