Mission
As a Cloud Engineer in the Cloud Squad, you are responsible for designing, building, and operating the core cloud platform capabilities at METRO.digital. You ensure product teams can use Google Cloud Platform securely, efficiently, and autonomously while keeping governance, cost transparency, and compliance in place. You work closely with other teams of the organization (e.g. CISO, procurement, legal) to drive security initiatives and integrate third-party providers into METRO’s cloud security governance model. Likewise, you are on the forefront of securing a complex Google Cloud organization and directly work with Google’s engineering teams to shape their governance products.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the architecture and technical direction of Metro’s cloud services:
- Automatic budget and security policy violation notifications
- Cloud-to-data-center connectivity
- Self-service Google project creation
- Self-service IAM & group management
- Governance & access to GCP-native services
- Cloud identity management
- Customer dashboard for spend & security findings
- Internal marketplace for shared services
- Easy-to-use technical DNS zones
- Ensure services are built with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), automation, and observability.
- Write and maintain Go-based services that power METRO’s cloud governance.
- Mentor and coach other engineers in the squad, supporting them in delivery and personal growth.
- Work closely with the service manager to prioritize backlog and balance feature delivery with operational stability.
- Act as a cloud adoption enabler for product teams, helping them use GCP effectively and securely.
- Engage with other squads in the infrastructure and application operation platform to ensure integration and alignment across services.