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Platform Support Engineer - GCP
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A Platform Engineer is responsible for the development of platforms that support the needs and use cases of different engineering teams across the organization. Creates reusable tools and workflows to streamline operational needs and facilitate automation tasks, supporting scalability of DevOps practices.
$127,373 / year median in Missouri
Job Description
Platform Support Engineer
- GCP (Lake St Louis, MO, 63367) | 02/26/26 Job Description About the client: Our client is a global technology consulting and digital solutions company that enables enterprises across industries to reimagine business models, accelerate innovation, and maximize growth by harnessing digital technologies.
As a digital transformation partner to more than 700+ clients, our client brings extensive domain and technology expertise to help drive superior competitive differentiation, customer experiences, and business outcomes in a converging world. Powered by nearly 90,000 talented and entrepreneurial professionals across more than 30 countries. Role
- Platform Support Engineer
- GCP Location
- St Louis, MO Strong hands‑on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services
(Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, VPC, IAM, Load Balancing)
Experience in production support and operations for cloud platforms and hosted applications
Proficiency in incident management, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis (RCA)
Hands‑on support for containerized workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Knowledge of GCP networking concepts (VPCs, subnets, firewall rules, routing, DNS)
Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting using Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging
Strong understanding of IAM, service accounts, roles, and access control
Ability to support SLA/SLO adherence, on‑call rotations, and operational runbooks
Working knowledge of Linux systems administration and shell scripting
Experience using ticketing and ITSM tools (ServiceNow, Jira, etc.
) Secondary Skills (Good‑to‑Have / Supporting) Exposure to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or Deployment Manager
Basic CI/CD support experience using Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins
Familiarity with application performance monitoring and capacity planning
Ability to work with cross‑functional teams (Dev, Platform, Security, SRE)
Understanding of cloud security best practices and compliance controls
Experience supporting data platforms or services (BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL)
Scripting experience with Python or Bash for automation and operational tasks
Knowledge of DevOps / SRE concepts (error budgets, reliability metrics)
Experience with cost monitoring and optimization in GCP
Platform Support Engineer
- GCP1gcp, Cloud, Python, terraform, production support, IAC, IAM, RCA, GKE C2CUnited States