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 ........................................................................................................................................................ chandan.k@empowerprofessionals.com | 100 Franklin Square Drive – Suite 104 | Somerset, NJ 08873 www.empowerprofessionals.com Certified NJ and NY Minority Business Enterprise (NMSDC)