- Hire, coach, develop, and retain senior and staff infrastructure engineers; set priorities, ownership, expectations, and delivery accountability.
- Own the strategy and evolution of the cloud environment, including GCP architecture, networking, Kubernetes infrastructure, provisioning, and shared infrastructure services.
- Set technical direction for GCP organization and project architecture, shared networking, IAM, and service connectivity.
- Own production Kubernetes/GKE cluster strategy and operational standards, including provisioning, lifecycle, networking, scheduling, autoscaling, capacity, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
- Set engineering standards for Terraform modules, remote state, Git-based reviews, automated validation, safe changes, and reusable infrastructure patterns.
- Establish infrastructure security foundations and foundational observability capabilities, including metrics, logging, tracing, and infrastructure monitoring.
- Drive cloud cost efficiency through architecture, capacity planning, resource optimization, and visibility into infrastructure spend.
- Lead major GKE, Kubernetes, networking, and cloud infrastructure upgrades or migrations with testing, staged rollout, rollback, and operational readiness plans.
- Define measurable infrastructure outcomes and partner with Platform Engineering, SRE, Security, and application engineering teams on ownership boundaries and infrastructure needs.
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