Senior Administrator - Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Job Summary

Cloud Administrator / Engineer (L2+) with 6+ years of experience in enterprise cloud infrastructure administration and operations, primarily across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Responsible for cloud provisioning, administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, security, incident resolution, automation, cost optimization, and operational support of production cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

Administer and support enterprise GCP and AWS cloud environments.

• Provision and manage compute, storage, networking, IAM, and other cloud resources.
• Monitor cloud infrastructure availability, performance, capacity, and service health.
• Troubleshoot cloud infrastructure, connectivity, access, and performance issues.
• Manage IAM roles, policies, service accounts, and access controls.
• Support cloud networking including VPC/VPC Network, subnets, routing, security groups/firewall rules, VPNs, and load balancers.
• Perform cloud resource configuration, patching, backup, and operational maintenance.
• Support infrastructure deployment and automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or scripting.
• Implement approved cloud changes and perform post-change validation.
• Support cloud security, vulnerability remediation, logging, and compliance requirements.
• Monitor cloud utilization and support cost and resource optimization activities.
• Handle L2/L2+ incidents, service requests, problems, and escalations within defined SLAs.
• Coordinate with Cybersecurity, Network, Application, DevOps, and Infrastructure teams.
• Maintain SOPs, runbooks, technical documentation, and knowledge articles.

Skill Requirements

Strong hands-on experience with GCP and/or AWS cloud administration.

• Experience with AWS EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, CloudWatch, ELB/ALB, or equivalent services.
• Experience with GCP Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, VPC, IAM, Cloud Monitoring, and Load Balancing, or equivalent services.
• Good understanding of cloud networking, TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, routing, firewall, and load-balancing concepts.
• Experience with cloud identity, IAM roles/policies, and security best practices.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), preferably Terraform.
• Exposure to Ansible, Python, PowerShell, or Shell scripting for operational automation.
• Experience with cloud monitoring, logging, backup, and disaster-recovery operations.
• Understanding of cloud cost management and resource optimization.
• Familiarity with ServiceNow, ITIL, Incident, Problem, and Change Management.
• Good troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• AWS / Google Cloud certifications preferred

Other Requirements

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