Cloud Engineer

Onward Search is a specialized staffing and talent solutions company that helps professionals find top jobs with the nation’s leading brands. We’re hiring a Cloud Engineer for a hybrid, long-term contract opportunity.

In this role, you'll design, deploy, and manage scalable data infrastructure using GCP, with a focus on Cloud Composer (Airflow) and GKE. This is a hands-on engineering position that will also require container management, CI/CD automation, observability implementation, and close collaboration with data engineering teams to modernize workloads.

This is a hybrid onsite role requiring attendance in the office Tuesday through Thursday, with remote work allowed on Monday and Friday.

Cloud Engineer Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and manage scalable data infrastructure in GCP, focusing on Cloud Composer (Airflow) and GKE.
• Manage containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes, including lifecycle, networking, and monitoring.
• Collaborate with data engineering to migrate workloads to containerized platforms.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git, and Terraform.
• Implement observability and reliability practices with Prometheus, Grafana, and related tools.
• Apply container security best practices including vulnerability scanning and secure configuration.
• Support open-source and Google-native tools such as CloudSQL, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, and Artifact Registry.
• Handle daily platform operations and support.

Cloud Engineer Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience with container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, GKE, AKS, EKS).
• 5+ years of hands-on GCP experience including IAM, networking, and resource management.
• 5+ years deploying and operating Docker containers in production environments.
• Experience with Helm, Terraform, Jenkins, and Composer (Airflow) (preferred).
• Knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases and experience migrating legacy applications to containers (preferred).
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals and large-scale data tools (preferred).
• Proficiency in Python (5+ years), Bash, Linux systems, and scripting (preferred).
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting containerized systems (preferred).

Perks & Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance.
• Life Insurance.
• 401(k) Program.
• Commuter Benefit.
• eLearning & Ongoing Training.
• Education Reimbursement.

*Eligibility requires working over 30 hours per week on an assignment lasting at least 10 weeks.