[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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