Remote Principal Cloud Engineer

Description:

• The Principal Cloud Engineer position at LivePerson involves providing expert guidance in designing and architecting cloud solutions using Google Cloud services.
• The role requires defining and driving technical strategy for complex projects, ensuring alignment with GCP capabilities and business goals.
• Responsibilities include overseeing deployment and management of cloud infrastructure for high availability, scalability, and cost optimization.
• The Principal Cloud Engineer will champion security best practices, enforce access controls, encryption, and compliance standards to protect sensitive data.
• Leading incident response and troubleshooting efforts for complex technical issues is a key aspect of the role.
• Optimizing cloud resource usage and costs, implementing continuous improvement in development processes, and collaborating with cross-functional teams are also part of the job.
• Creating and maintaining technical documentation to facilitate team collaboration is essential.

Requirements:

• The ideal candidate should have at least 6 years of experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services and architecture, including Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud DNS, and Cloud Networking.
• Proficiency in tools like Terraform for managing cloud infrastructure is required.
• Mastery of GCP networking, including VPC, load balancing, firewalls, and routing is necessary.
• Experience in managing containerized applications using Kubernetes and other container platforms is essential.
• Familiarity with serverless computing offerings like CloudFunctions and CloudRun is preferred.
• DevOps mindset, CI/CD pipelines experience, and understanding of multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies are important.
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and observability concepts, as well as strong problem-solving skills, is required.
• Strong leadership skills, the ability to mentor junior engineers, and excellent communication skills for collaboration with cross-functional teams are necessary.

Benefits:

• Health benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage are provided.
• Development opportunities in Native AI learning are available for personal and professional growth.