Google Cloud/Azure Cloud Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Google Cloud/Azure Cloud Engineer

• Work mode: 100% remote (CT or ET time zone)

• Contract length: 7 months (through May 2027)

Description

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, build, and maintain resilient distributed cloud systems across Google Cloud Platform and Azure. Responsibilities include troubleshooting complex infrastructure and workflow orchestration issues, optimizing cloud workloads, and improving service reliability and performance. You will implement asynchronous workflows and microservices using Temporal and deliver multi-cloud infrastructure using Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and provide technical guidance across distributed cloud environments

• Troubleshoot, maintain, and resolve complex issues related to cloud infrastructure and workflow orchestration

• Optimize data storage, compute, and processing workloads using cloud-native services across Google Cloud Platform and Azure

• Design, build, and maintain resilient asynchronous workflows and distributed microservices using Temporal

• Implement and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) modular frameworks using Terraform for reliable multi-cloud deployments

• Monitor, tune, and improve application performance, service reliability, and data flow efficiency

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing infrastructure and services across Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure

• Production experience in Python or Go for backend development, automation, and distributed systems tooling

• Practical experience using Terraform for multi-environment provisioning, state management, and infrastructure automation

• Hands-on experience developing, orchestrating, and scaling complex, failure-resilient distributed applications using Temporal

• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tooling (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Experience with CI/CD automation pipelines

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance options

• ESPP and 401K (typically start contributing within ~30 days; company match after 12 months)

• HSA and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with counseling sessions

• On-demand training, certification prep, and access to technical and leadership courses

• Certification discounts and association perks (e.g., CompTIA, IIBA)

• Career coaching and consultant support resources