GCP Cloud Platform Engineer - Hybrid

Hybrid-Monday/Tuesday /Thursday Title: GCP Cloud Platform Engineer (Contract-to-Hire)

Locations: Houston, TX; Mayfield Heights, OH; Milwaukee, WI Team: IT Platform Engineering, Infrastructure & Operations

Role summary We are bringing Google Cloud Platform into our enterprise-supported cloud environment alongside our existing Azure platform. This contract-to-hire engineer will build and harden an enterprise-ready GCP landing zone and help evolve our current tenant from experimentation into a governed, production-grade platform. The role partners closely with identity, security, FinOps and AI Governance teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and deploy an enterprise landing zone covering organization, folder, and project structure, IAM, connectivity, logging, and security integrations, aligned to landing zone best practices.
• Migrate unmanaged Google accounts to managed identities and implement Entra-to-Google identity sync with full SSO and MFA.
• Consolidate projects into a single billing account to enable FinOps invoicing and chargeback.
• Establish network guardrails including public IP blocking policies, centralized VPCs and hub architecture, and private access and endpoints.
• Centralize audit logging and monitoring and integrate enterprise security tooling such as Wiz and CrowdStrike.
• Implement platform components as code (Terraform) with reusable, secure, policy-enforced modules.
• Document standards and operational runbooks to support handoff to platform and cloud operations teams.

Required Qualifications

• Hands-on GCP platform engineering experience, including Cloud Identity, IAM, org policy, VPC networking, and billing administration.
• Identity federation experience with Microsoft Entra ID, SSO, and MFA.
• Infrastructure as code proficiency with Terraform.
• Working knowledge of cloud security posture management and log and monitoring centralization.
• Experience taking a cloud environment from POC to enterprise-governed state.

Preferred

• Experience operating a second cloud (Azure) at enterprise scale.
• FinOps and chargeback model experience.
• Familiarity with Wiz, CrowdStrike, and manufacturing or regulated enterprise environments.