Senior Cloud Engineer(GCP)

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

11

S&P Global Energy

The Role: Senior Cloud Engineer

The Team: The Cloud Engineering Team is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure that supports various applications and services within the S&P Global Energy Insights organization. This team collaborates closely with data science, application development, and security teams to ensure the reliability, security, and scalability of our cloud solutions.

The Impact: As a Cloud Engineer, you will play a vital role in deploying and managing cloud infrastructure that supports our strategic initiatives. Your expertise in GCP and multi-cloud technologies will help streamline operations, enhance service delivery, and ensure the security and compliance of our environments.

What's in it for you: This position offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge cloud technologies and collaborate with various teams across the organization. You will gain exposure to multiple S&P Energy Divisions and contribute to projects that have a significant impact on the business. This role opens doors for tremendous career opportunities within S&P Global.

Responsibilities:

• Design and deploy cloud infrastructure using core GCP services such as Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, IAM, VPC, and Cloud CDN, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
• Deploy, manage, and scale Container orchestration systems using Google's Managed Container Orchestration Platform , ensuring high availability, secure networking, and efficient resource utilization.
• Develop secure, compliant GCP environments by configuring IAM roles/policies, Service Accounts, Workload Identity Federation, Cloud KMS encryption, firewall rules, and Private Service Connect.
• Implement Workload Identity to enable secure, keyless authentication between GKE workloads and GCP services, eliminating the need for service account keys.
• Manage Service Accounts with least-privilege principles, including key rotation policies and access reviews.
• Configure logging, monitoring, and alerting with Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and Security Command Center to support observability and incident response.
• Enforce security and compliance controls via IAM policy audits, Service Account audits, patching schedules, and automated backup strategies.
• Monitor infrastructure health, respond to incidents, and maintain SLAs through proactive alerting and runbook execution.
• Collaborate with data science teams to deploy machine learning models using Vertex AI, managing model training, hosting, and monitoring.
• Automate and schedule data processing workflows using Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Composer (Apache Airflow), Cloud Functions, and Cloud Scheduler to support ML pipelines.
• Optimize infrastructure for cost and performance using Cloud Monitoring metrics, auto-scaling, Committed Use Discounts, and Sustained Use Discounts.
• Write and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or Google Cloud Deployment Manager for repeatable, automated infrastructure deployments.
• Implement disaster recovery, backups, and versioned deployments using Cloud Storage versioning, Cloud SQL snapshots, and Deployment Manager templates.
• Set up and manage CI/CD pipelines using GCP services like Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, and Cloud Deploy to support application and model deployments.
• Manage and optimize real-time inference pipelines using Vertex AI Endpoints, Cloud Run, and Cloud Functions with API Gateway to ensure reliable, scalable model serving.
• Support containerized AI workloads using Google's Managed Container Orchestration Platform or Cloud Run, including model serving and microservices for AI-based features.
• Maintain secondary proficiency in AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, EKS, SageMaker, IAM roles) to support multi-cloud initiatives and hybrid deployments.
• Collaborate with SecOps and SRE teams to uphold security baselines, manage change control, and conduct root cause analysis for outages.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and architectural planning to ensure scalable and maintainable cloud infrastructure.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date infrastructure documentation, including architecture diagrams, access control policies, and deployment processes.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with application, data, and security teams to align cloud solutions with business and technical goals.
• Stay current with GCP, AWS, and AI/ML advancements, suggesting improvements or new service adoption where applicable.

What We're Looking For:

Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, particularly GCP services and Container orchestration systems.

Proven experience in deploying and managing cloud solutions in a collaborative Agile environment.

Ability to present technical concepts to both business and technical audiences.

Excellent multi-tasking skills and the ability to manage multiple projects under tight deadlines.

Basic Qualifications:

BA/BS in computer science, information technology, or a related field.

8+ years of experience in cloud engineering or related roles, specifically with GCP as primary cloud platform.

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or Google Cloud Deployment Manager.

Knowledge of container orchestration and microservices architecture.

Familiarity with security best practices in cloud environments, including Service Accounts and Workload Identity.

Working knowledge of AWS services to support secondary cloud requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

Extensive hands-on experience with GCP services and Google's Managed Container Orchestration Platform.

Experience with AWS services in a secondary or multi-cloud capacity.

Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently as well as part of a team.

Strong communication skills and the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.

Experience with greenfield projects and building cloud infrastructure from scratch.

GCP Professional Cloud Architect or Professional Cloud Engineer certification preferred.

AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Associate or similar) are a plus.

What’s In It For You?

Our Mission:

Advancing Essential Intelligence.

Our People:

We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:
Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include: 

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.

• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.

• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.

• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

Global Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global:

At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering a connected and engaged workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and merit, ensuring that we attract and retain top talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive innovation and power global markets.

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Equal Opportunity Employer

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law.  Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.  

 

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