Senior Cloud Engineer

About Zencore

Zencore is a fast-growing company founded by former Google Cloud leaders, architects, and engineers. Our engagements aim to eliminate obstacles, reduce risk, and accelerate timelines for customers transitioning to Google and seeking assistance with data and application modernization. We embed within customer teams to provide strategic guidance, facilitate technology decisions, and execute projects in a collaborative, co-development style.

About the Role

As a member of our Cloud Engineering team, you will be working with fast paced innovative companies, leveraging Cloud as the key driver of their transformation. You will be their trusted advisor, leading and supporting cross-cloud migration work, with a strong focus on core cloud infrastructure, managed services, networking, Kubernetes, databases, and CI/CD tooling across enterprise environments.

Our primary expertise is in Google Cloud technologies, utilizing a toolbox that often incorporates Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Kubernetes, Networking along with customer tooling such as GitHub.

Essential Technical Skills and Experience

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP): Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience with GCP, including Compute Engine, Cloud Run, and Cloud Storage
• Networking: Strong understanding of VPC Networking, DNS, and enterprise networking concepts
• IAM: Deep knowledge of IAM, Service Accounts, workload identity, and the principle of least privilege
• Containerization and Orchestration: Experience with Kubernetes and containerization technologies
• Managed Databases: Hands-on experience with managed database services such as Cloud SQL
• DevOps and CI/CD: Practical experience with DevOps methodologies and tools including CI/CD platforms like GitHub
• Automation: Ability to write scripts and automation in at least one programming language

Desired Experience

• Confidence in managing stakeholder interactions and experience working with large enterprise customers
• Prior experience delivering or supporting cloud migrations between hyperscalers (e.g., Azure to GCP or AWS to GCP)
• Conversational proficiency in English and comfort with video meetings with internal teams and clients

Why Zencore

• Trusted professionals with extensive experience to get the job done
• Share unbiased opinions — you are the subject matter expert for our customers
• You will connect customers to Google and move quickly when others cannot
• Remove uncertainty and risk by clearly outlining the cloud migration process
• Accelerate timelines and expose unknown unknowns for customers
• Empathetic culture — customers believe in us because we relate to their complexities

We are a fully remote company and offer competitive compensation and benefits. Zencore is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.