Senior GCP Cloud Networking Engineer

Location: Remote from Colombia or Chile; technical ownership includes communication during US business hours and critical-incident escalation.

Company

hirify.global is an engineering and technology services company supporting a US-based cloud data platform client.

What you will do

• Define cloud networking standards across GCP and AWS, including routing, segmentation, firewalls, NAT, DNS, ingress, egress, and private connectivity.
• Own VPN and private-access connectivity, including bastion, DNS, device-trust, IPAM, and cloud-to-data-center patterns.
• Establish SLOs, monitoring, and alerting with Grafana, Mimir, Loki, Pingdom, and PagerDuty.
• Lead connectivity incident diagnosis, mitigation, permanent remediation, runbooks, failure-mode documentation, and escalation paths.
• Develop infrastructure automation with Terraform or OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Python, and Go using safe validation, deployment, and rollback practices.
• Collaborate with Cloud Platform, DevPlat, Systems Engineering, IT, and InfoSec; mentor engineers and document architecture and operational standards.

Requirements

• Significant experience designing and operating production cloud networks across both GCP and AWS.
• Deep practical knowledge of routing, segmentation, firewalls, DNS, VPNs, bastion access, private connectivity, and cloud-network troubleshooting.
• Strong SRE experience with SLOs, observability, incident response, post-incident remediation, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
• Hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform or OpenTofu and Terragrunt, plus infrastructure automation using Python, Go, or a comparable language.
• Practical experience with Kubernetes networking or adjacent platform infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with FreeIPA and Keycloak, including cloud identity and access dependencies.
• Understanding of cloud infrastructure security best practices, safe infrastructure changes, and operational guardrails.
• Experience with AI-driven infrastructure and workflows.
• Ability to lead cross-team technical decisions, document architecture and operational standards, and collaborate without formal authority.
• B2+ English proficiency, written and spoken, is required for daily communication with the team and a US-based client, including technical ownership during US business hours and critical-incident escalation.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with OIDC, SAML, SCIM, or JIT access.
• Experience with Tailscale, Headscale, WireGuard, NetBox, or mixed cloud and data-center environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work arrangement from Colombia or Chile.
• Cross-functional collaboration across Cloud Platform, DevPlat, Systems Engineering, IT, and InfoSec.
• Operational knowledge sharing through mentoring, architecture decisions, standards, and practices that strengthen coverage across time zones.
• Equal opportunity employment regardless of legally protected characteristics.