

Empower Professionals Inc
GCP Engineer W2
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This role is for a GCP Engineer in Buffalo, NY, offering a 12+ month contract at a hybrid location. Requires 5+ years in IT, hands-on GKE and Kubernetes experience, GCP services knowledge, and proficiency in Terraform, Jenkins, and Python.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
April 24, 2026
🕒 - Duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location
Hybrid
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📄 - Contract
1099 Contractor
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Buffalo, NY
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Disaster Recovery #Computer Science #IAM (Identity and Access Management) #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #GitHub #Terraform #GCP (Google Cloud Platform) #GIT #Firewalls #Deployment #SQL (Structured Query Language) #Grafana #Monitoring #Documentation #Airflow #Unix #Kubernetes #Logging #Python #Linux #Cloud #Ansible #DevOps #Scripting #Prometheus #Jenkins #Dataflow #Shell Scripting #Storage
Role description
Role: GCP Engineer
Locations: Buffalo, NY (Hybrid Onsite)
Duration: 12+ Months Contract
F2F Interview Highly Preferred For Local Candidates
Note: Candidate needs to be in the office 3-4 Days every week. Local or candidates from adjacent states only.
Job Description:
• Design, build, and run GCP infrastructure.
• Provision and manage core GCP services, including: VMs (Linux and Windows) on Compute Engine, GKE clusters, Dataproc clusters, Cloud SQL instances
• Automate provisioning, config, and deployments using Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, or Cloud Deployment Manager.
• Monitor and tune platforms for performance, cost, and scale using Google Cloud Operations Suite (Stackdriver), Prometheus, and/or Grafana.
• Keep things secure: IAM, network controls, and encryption.
• Partner with app teams to speed up delivery and improve reliability.
• Troubleshoot prod/non-prod issues, then complete RCA and documentation.
• Implement backup and disaster recovery for critical services and data.
• Translate requirements into design specs aligned to business agreements.
• 5+ years in IT development/engineering.
• Bachelor’s or master’s in computer science/engineering (or similar).
• GCP certs (Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer / Cloud Architect) are a bonus.
• Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid setups.
• Must-have: hands-on GKE, Helm, and Kubernetes app deployment experience.
• Hands-on with Python and GCP services: Composer/Airflow, Data Fusion, Big Query, Cloud Storage, GCE, Dataflow.
• Solid DevOps tooling knowledge: Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, GitHub, etc.
• Comfortable on Unix/Linux and with shell scripting.
• Monitoring/logging experience with Cloud Operations, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Good grasp of networking: VPCs, firewalls, load balancers, DNS.
• Strong Git skills, including branching strategies.
Thanks
Chandan
Manager | Empower Professionals
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chandan.k@empowerprofessionals.com |
100 Franklin Square Drive – Suite 104 | Somerset, NJ 08873
www.empowerprofessionals.com
Certified NJ and NY Minority Business Enterprise (NMSDC)
Role: GCP Engineer
Locations: Buffalo, NY (Hybrid Onsite)
Duration: 12+ Months Contract
F2F Interview Highly Preferred For Local Candidates
Note: Candidate needs to be in the office 3-4 Days every week. Local or candidates from adjacent states only.
Job Description:
• Design, build, and run GCP infrastructure.
• Provision and manage core GCP services, including: VMs (Linux and Windows) on Compute Engine, GKE clusters, Dataproc clusters, Cloud SQL instances
• Automate provisioning, config, and deployments using Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, or Cloud Deployment Manager.
• Monitor and tune platforms for performance, cost, and scale using Google Cloud Operations Suite (Stackdriver), Prometheus, and/or Grafana.
• Keep things secure: IAM, network controls, and encryption.
• Partner with app teams to speed up delivery and improve reliability.
• Troubleshoot prod/non-prod issues, then complete RCA and documentation.
• Implement backup and disaster recovery for critical services and data.
• Translate requirements into design specs aligned to business agreements.
• 5+ years in IT development/engineering.
• Bachelor’s or master’s in computer science/engineering (or similar).
• GCP certs (Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer / Cloud Architect) are a bonus.
• Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid setups.
• Must-have: hands-on GKE, Helm, and Kubernetes app deployment experience.
• Hands-on with Python and GCP services: Composer/Airflow, Data Fusion, Big Query, Cloud Storage, GCE, Dataflow.
• Solid DevOps tooling knowledge: Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, GitHub, etc.
• Comfortable on Unix/Linux and with shell scripting.
• Monitoring/logging experience with Cloud Operations, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Good grasp of networking: VPCs, firewalls, load balancers, DNS.
• Strong Git skills, including branching strategies.
Thanks
Chandan
Manager | Empower Professionals
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chandan.k@empowerprofessionals.com |
100 Franklin Square Drive – Suite 104 | Somerset, NJ 08873
www.empowerprofessionals.com
Certified NJ and NY Minority Business Enterprise (NMSDC)






