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GCP Platform Technical Lead
We are looking for a GCP Principal Engineer to lead our Cloud Engineering team, owning the Google Cloud Platform for the enterprise. This is a foundational platform role — you are the GCP technical authority, setting architectural/engineeringdirection,establishingengineering standards, and ensuring the platform is secure, scalable, and built to last.
Your role will include driving designs of the platform, mentoringthe engineers around you, andaligningquality and best practices. You bring deep GCPexpertise, a platform-owner mindset, and the leadership presence to align engineers and stakeholders around a shared technical vision.This role demands a cloud-first thinker who ensures cloud solutions meet business needs efficiently while prioritizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to create repeatable, automated deployments. You need to have a proventrack recordof architecting cloud environments from scratch.You'lldrive cloud transformation initiativesall CSP’s focusing on theGCP platformwhile ensuring every design decision considers security, reliability, and scalability.
This is not a hands-off leadership role — you write code, review designs, and stay close to the work.
1. GCP Platform Ownership
Serve as theone of thefinal technical authoritieson GCPengineeringdecisions, reviewing designs for scalability, security, and operational excellence before they reach production.
2. Technical Team Leadership
Lead theGCPcloud engineering team as the technical anchor — set direction, conduct design reviews, unblock engineers, and drive delivery on platform initiatives.
Establish and enforce engineering standards:IaCpatterns, naming conventions, tagging strategy, branching models, and deployment practices.
Partner with architecture, security, operations, and business stakeholders to translate enterprise requirements into platform capabilities.
3. Infrastructure as Code & Automation
Drive Infrastructure as code as a coreprinciple —reusable modules, pipeline integration, state management, and policy guardrails.
4. Networking, Security & Compliance
Architect/EngineerGCP networking: Shared VPC, VPC Service Controls, Private Service Connect,NCC,CloudNAT,and hybrid connectivity via Cloud Interconnect and HA VPN.
Own the enterprise security posture on GCP — Workload Identity Federation, Binary Authorization, Secret Manager, IAM least-privilege design, and SIEM/CSPM integration (Security Command Center, Prisma Cloud, or Wiz).
Drive continuous automated compliance across applicable regulatory frameworks (HIPAA, PCI, SOC 2)socontrols are enforced in real time, not discovered at audit.
5. Platform Strategy & Continuous Improvement
IncorporateFinOps practices across the platform: committed use discounts, rightsizing, budget alerting, and cost allocation as engineering disciplines, not afterthoughts.
Proven ownership of a GCP organization — Resource Hierarchy, Billing, Org Policy, IAM, and multi-project governance in production.
Deep GCPexpertiserequiredacross:
Compute & Containers: GKE (Autopilot + Standard), Cloud Run, Compute Engine, MIGs
Networking: Shared VPC, VPC Service Controls, Private Service Connect, Cloud Armor, Interconnect
Data & Messaging: BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Cloud Composer
Security: IAM, Workload Identity, SCC, Binary Authorization, Secret Manager, VPC-SC
IaC& Automation: Terraform (modules, remote state, OPA), Cloud Build, Config Connector
Observability: Cloud Operations Suite, Datadog, SLO/SLI design, PagerDuty integration
Languages: Python and Go (required); Bashproficiencyexpected
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent demonstrated experience.
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$144,200.00 - $288,400.00
This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.
Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.
Great benefits for great people
We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 06/12/2026
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
