Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (GCP)

About this role

Job Title: Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (GCP) Job Location: Work at Home, Rhode Island, United States Job Location Type: Remote Job Contract Type: Full time Job Seniority Level: We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

GCP Platform Technical Lead

Position Summary

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.

Major Responsibilities

1. GCP Platform Ownership

Own the enterprise GCP platform end-to-end: organization structure, resource hierarchy, networking architecturewhile collaborating with several teams to ensure the platform is stable and compliant.

Define andmaintainthe GCP landing zone — Shared VPC, Org Policies,and project factory patterns — as the foundation all product teams build on.

Serve as theone of thefinal technical authoritieson GCPengineeringdecisions, reviewing designs for scalability, security, and operational excellence before they reach production.

Build self-service platform capabilities that enable product engineering teams to move fast without compromising standards.

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.

Mentor engineers at all levels, building depth on the team and raising the bar on what “excellence” looks like in cloud engineering.

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.

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, and Artifact Registry for both platform infrastructure and application teams.

Write production-quality automation to extend platform functionality, integrate GCP APIs, andeliminateoperational toil.

Implement policy-as-code using OPA, Config Connector, and GCP Org Policies to enforce governance at scale without manual gatekeeping.

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.

Integrate observability — Cloud Operations Suite, Datadog, and SLO/SLI frameworks — as a first-classplatformcapability across all workloads.

5. Platform Strategy & Continuous Improvement

Own the GCP platform roadmap, evaluating new GCP services and capabilities and making deliberate decisions about what the enterprise adopts and when.

IncorporateFinOps practices across the platform: committed use discounts, rightsizing, budget alerting, and cost allocation as engineering disciplines, not afterthoughts.

Research and pilot emerging GCP capabilitieslike— Vertex AI, GKE Enterprise, Duet AI for DevOps — evaluating their fit for enterprise adoption.

Foster a culturethat drive collaboration across teams and towers to shape the future ofcutting-edgecloud technology adoption

Required Qualifications

10+ years in cloud and infrastructure engineering with 5+ years of deep, hands-on GCP experience at enterprise scale.

Proven ownership of a GCP organization — Resource Hierarchy, Billing, Org Policy, IAM, and multi-project governance in production.

Demonstrated technical leadership: you have led a platform team or major enterprise cloud initiative, set technical direction, and grown engineers around you.

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,…