A respected technology consultancy is looking for a Senior Google Cloud Engineer to help its customers build strong cloud foundations on GCP, modernise applications and adopt cloud-native engineering practices.
This is a strategic, hands-on, customer-facing role combining deep engineering with architecture guidance, advisory work and platform enablement, working across cloud, data and software engineering teams.
What you’ll do
Design, build and support secure, scalable Google Cloud environments
Establish and maintain cloud foundations, landing zones and governance standards
Build and maintain infrastructure as code with Terraform
Support Kubernetes and container-based platforms
Guide customers and internal teams on cloud-native development and application modernisation
Assist with architecture reviews, technical solutioning and implementation guidance
Contribute to CI/CD automation, observability, monitoring and platform engineering
Mentor engineers and help build capability
What you’ll need
At least 5 years of cloud or platform engineering experience
Strong hands-on Google Cloud Platform experience
Experience designing cloud foundations and enterprise cloud environments
Strong Terraform and infrastructure as code
Kubernetes, Docker and container platforms
A strong understanding of networking, IAM, cloud security and monitoring
Experience in customer-facing or consulting environments and the ability to guide architecture discussions
Nice to have
AWS and/or Azure experience
Platform engineering, SRE, CI/CD and GitOps
Data platforms, analytics or AI/ML workloads
Google Cloud or Kubernetes (CKA / CKAD) certifications
Observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus or Datadog
What’s on offer
Enterprise cloud modernisation and transformation work
A senior engineering role with advisory influence
A collaborative way of working focused on enablement and knowledge sharing
Johannesburg. Hybrid. Permanent.