Cloud Engineer with GCP

GCP Cloud Engineer
3-month contract, extendable.
Location: LATAM (Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, and Costa Rica)
Rate: DOE
Position Summary
We’re looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to lead our move to the cloud, starting with smaller applications and building toward migrating our microservices to the cloud. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role as our dedicated cloud specialist: you’ll partner directly with our Director of Software Engineering on architecture and migration strategy, and work closely with our DevOps engineer on deployment, while driving the day-to-day execution independently.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Design and own the migration of applications and microservices from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud (GCP), starting with lower-risk workloads and progressing to larger, more business-critical systems
Architect scalable, secure, cost-efficient environments on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), following the provider’s well-architected best practices
Partner with the Director of Software Engineering on migration strategy and key architecture decisions
Collaborate closely with our DevOps engineer to integrate migrated applications into existing CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
Establish monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure reliability and performance post-migration
Implement security, identity/access management (IAM), and networking best practices for cloud workloads
Evaluate and recommend migration strategies (rehost, replat form, refactor) on a per-application basis
Troubleshoot and resolve cloud infrastructure issues independently, with minimal escalation support
Document architecture, runbooks, and migration decisions for future team growth
Qualifications and Skills Required:
Required:
8+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience, including designing, deploying, and owning production workloads in the cloud
Proven experience migrating applications from on-premises to cloud environments
Strong working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Working familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred), CI/CD concepts, and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) to collaborate effectively with our DevOps engineer
Solid scripting ability (Python, Bash, or similar) for automation
Working knowledge of cloud networking (VPCs, load balancers, DNS, security groups) and IAM
Demonstrated ability to work independently and drive cloud initiatives day-to-day as the team’s dedicated cloud specialist
Preferred:
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification
Experience migrating business-critical or transaction-based systems to the cloud
Familiarity with observability tooling (e.g., Cloud Monitoring, New Relic)

Work arrangement
Yes