About the role
Title: GCP Platform Engineering Lead (VP)
Client: Big 4 Consulting Firm.
Location: Jersey City, NJ / Delaware
Experience: 7+ years
Rate: $90/hr
Role summary
We are seeking a GCP Platform Engineering Lead at the VP level to build and operate internal platform capabilities that enable secure, scalable application onboarding on GCP. This role will focus on creating automation, golden paths, and guardrails that improve developer experience while maintaining strong security, governance, and operational standards.
Key responsibilities
• Lead platform engineering delivery for application onboarding automation, including Terraform modules, pipelines, and validation frameworks.
• Define and enforce engineering standards for module quality, state management, pull request controls, and drift detection/remediation.
• Embed security-by-default guardrails across the platform and partner with security and compliance teams on evidence automation.
• Own platform operations, including reliability, incident response, SLOs/SLAs, and continuous improvement initiatives.