Senior Principal Cloud Foundations Engineer – GCP
GSK (company site, opens in a new tab)15+ yrsBengaluruOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 40–80 LPA
Posted 18h ago
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About This Role
- Design, build, and automate foundational Google Cloud Platform infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and golden paths to enable repeatable provisioning.
- Lead engineering standards enforcement, mentor engineers including partner teams, and integrate/assure partner-delivered platform components to uphold code quality and security.
- Engineer platform reliability by defining SLOs, instrumenting for observability, automating toil reduction, and contributing to incident response and permanent automated fixes.
Minimum Requirements
- Minimum 15 years overall work experience, with 6-8 years in cloud, infrastructure or software engineering; including at least 2 years as senior technical lead.
- Hands-on experience deploying landing zones and services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Strong expertise in infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform) applied to production environments, CI/CD pipelines, and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
- Degree in technology or engineering discipline (or equivalent practical experience).
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced senior engineer with a strong focus on automation-first, secure-by-default cloud platform engineering using GCP and infrastructure-as-code.
- Proven ability to lead technically, mentor diverse engineering teams including external partners, and enforce high engineering standards and code quality.
- Demonstrates advanced practical knowledge of SRE principles including SLO definition, observability instrumentation, toil reduction automation, and AI-assisted engineering tools with sound judgment on output quality.