Job Description
About Egen:
Egen is a fast-growing and entrepreneurial company with a data-first mindset. We bring together the best engineering talent working with the most advanced technology platforms, including Google Cloud and Salesforce, to help clients drive action and impact through data and insights. We are committed to being a place where the best people choose to work so they can apply their engineering and technology expertise to envision what is next for how data and platforms can change the world for the better. We are dedicated to learning, thrive on solving tough problems, and continually innovate to achieve fast, effective results. If this describes you, we want you on our team.
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About the Job
As a Lead Cloud Engineer, your primary focus will be on hands-on implementation and technical ownership, including:
- As a Lead Cloud Specialist, your primary focus will be hands-on cloud implementation, technical ownership, and the delivery of secure, scalable, and reliable cloud environments. Key responsibilities include:
- Cloud Delivery Leadership: Lead the implementation and operationalization of cloud solutions, ensuring high-quality, on-time delivery throughout the project lifecycle.
- Cloud Infrastructure Implementation: Design, deploy, and manage scalable cloud infrastructure across networking, compute, storage, identity, and platform services to support business and application requirements.
- Hybrid Cloud Connectivity: Implement and maintain secure connectivity between cloud and on-premises environments using services such as Network Connectivity Center, Partner Interconnect, and HA VPN.
- Cloud Security Deployment: Establish and enforce a strong cloud security posture through the implementation of cloud-native security services, including Cloud NGFW Enterprise, Cloud IDS, Cloud Armor, identity controls, and encryption capabilities.
- Access and Service Controls: Implement appropriate access boundaries, segmentation, and data protection guardrails using tools such as VPC Service Controls, IAM policies, and Network Security Endpoints.
- Cloud Observability and Operations: Configure and maintain logging, monitoring, alerting, and diagnostic capabilities to support platform reliability, performance management, troubleshooting, and security investigations.
About you
We are looking for evidence of direct, impactful contributions in the following areas:
- Google Cloud Platform Expertise: Expert-level knowledge of Google Cloud, including compute, storage, databases, Kubernetes, serverless technologies, identity and access management, observability, and platform services. Experience applying this expertise to other major cloud providers is a plus.
- Enterprise Cloud Delivery: Proven experience designing, implementing, and operationalizing scalable cloud environments that support enterprise applications, data platforms, and business-critical workloads.
- Cloud Security Proficiency: Hands-on experience implementing cloud-native security controls, including IAM, encryption, secrets management, security monitoring, policy enforcement, and data protection guardrails.
- Extensive Cloud Engineering Experience: 10+ years of hands-on experience in cloud engineering, platform architecture, infrastructure delivery, or related technical disciplines, with strong expertise in Google Cloud, Terraform, Kubernetes, automation, security, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Cloud Governance and Service Controls: Demonstrated experience implementing governance frameworks and security guardrails using tools such as Organization Policies, IAM controls, VPC Service Controls, audit logging, and policy-as-code.
- Infrastructure Automation: Significant experience provisioning, configuring, and managing cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, along with CI/CD and automated deployment practices.
- Platform Reliability and Observability: Experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, performance management, and incident-response capabilities to improve the availability, resilience, and operational health of cloud platforms.
- Technical Leadership and Influence: A history of independently owning technical delivery across defined project lifecycles, demonstrating strong communication skills, mentoring team members, and maintaining a high standard for engineering quality.
$177,000 - $208,283 a year
Compensation & Benefits:
This role is eligible for our competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package to support your well-being:
- Comprehensive Health Insurance
- Paid Leave (Vacation/PTO)
- Paid Holidays
- Sick Leave
- Parental Leave
- Bereavement Leave
- 401 (k) Employer Match
- Employee Referral Bonuses
Check out our complete list of benefits here - >https://egen.ai/people/#benefits
Important: All roles are subject to standard hiring verification practices, which may include background checks, employment verification, and other relevant checks.
EEO and Accommodations:
Egen is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to inclusion, diversity, and equity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Egen will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Egen welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require accommodations during the interview process.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
