Sr GCP Cloud Platform Engineer

<p style="text-align: center; line-height: 107%; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #202124;"></span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; background: white;"><br><br></span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></strong></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 15pt;">OnTrac</span></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> is hiring a </span><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Senior GCP Cloud Platform Engineer</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">!</span></strong></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Are you eager to join a dynamic and expanding company where you can both learn and make a meaningful impact? If you possess a strong sense of empathy, enjoy assisting others, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and excel at problem-solving, we encourage you to apply today to connect with a recruiter!</p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Founded in 1986, <strong>OnTrac </strong>has evolved into the leading provider of same-day and next-day delivery services in the U.S. for premier e-commerce and product-supply businesses, including five of the largest retailers in the U.S.<strong> </strong></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </p> <p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Location:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Remote<br></span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Employment Logistics:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 12pt 0in 0in; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Senior GCP Cloud Platform Engineer joins the IT Engineering team during a pivotal phase of the GCP journey. This role will partner closely with the development teams to support the cloud environment shift from manual-heavy operations to a fully automated infrastructure. This individual will help mature the CI/CD environment into a predictable, standardized ecosystem, and lead the effort to standardize Terraform and Ansible playbooks/modules and ensure infrastructure is resilient, scalable, and built on secure guardrails.</span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Unpacking the Benefits:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #202124;">We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, financial security, and life outside of work.</span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </p> <ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;"> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #202124;">Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance; HSA and FSA options</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #202124;">Life and Disability coverage (basic and voluntary)</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #202124;">Voluntary Accident, Critical Illness, Identity & Fraud Protection, Auto & Home, and Pet Insurance</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #202124;">Competitive benefits and 401(k) with company match</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #202124;">Referral Bonus Program - Up to $500 per referral!</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #202124;">Paid Time Off including Holiday pay  </span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #202124;">Employee Assistance Program & </span>a <span style="color: #202124;">Safe and clean work environment  </span></li> </ul> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </p> <p style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; background: white;">The Must-Haves:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; background: white;"> <br><br></span></p> <ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;"> <li style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">5+ years in Cloud Infrastructure, Systems Engineering, or Platform Operations</li> <li style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Hands-on experience managing Google Cloud (GCP) environments, specifically Shared VPCs, IAM hierarchies, and Cloud SQL</li> <li style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Strong Linux administration skills; a “Linux-first” troubleshooter comfortable at the command line when deployments fail</li> <li style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Proven experience building and managing automated release flows in Azure DevOps (e.g., Pipelines/Releases/Boards)</li> <li style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">High proficiency with Terraform and Ansible, including organizing existing code into a professional, modular library</li> <li style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Strong understanding of the “why” and “how” behind containerization, including evaluating when workloads should move to a managed container platform vs. staying on VMs</li> <li style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Experience designing and managing auto-scaling compute environments and container orchestration to handle variable traffic without manual intervention</li> <li style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ability to understand application dependencies and troubleshoot build/deployment errors to unblock developers in mixed environments</li> </ul> <p style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </p> <p style="margin: 1pt 0in 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; background: white;">Your Mission in Motion:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; background: white;"> </span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 1pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;"> <li style="margin: 1pt 0in 5pt 0px; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><strong>CI/CD maturity (Azure DevOps): </strong>Lead the transition from manual infrastructure management to a fully automated CI/CD lifecycle in Azure DevOps, bridging the current state to push-button deployments.</li> <li style="margin: 1pt 0in 5pt 0px; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Standardizing IaC (Terraform/Ansible): </strong>Own the Terraform and Ansible ecosystem to ensure changes are made through code, reducing manual tweaks and eliminating configuration drift.</li> <li style="margin: 1pt 0in 5pt 0px; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Technical mentorship & standards: </strong>Act as the senior voice with the engineering team to establish standards, share best practices, and guide decisions on adopting new tools.</li> <li style="margin: 1pt 0in 5pt 0px; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Compute & elasticity strategy: </strong>Help architect the next phase of infrastructure by moving services into modern, elastic environments that support high availability and self-healing.</li> <li style="margin: 1pt 0in 5pt 0px; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Containerization roadmap: </strong>Lead container strategy by selecting workloads ready for orchestration, setting image standards, and ensuring consistent deployment patterns.</li> <li style="margin: 1pt 0in 5pt 0px; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Reliability & monitoring + on-call: </strong>Define critical system health metrics with the team and participate in the on-call rotation to keep 24/7 delivery services operational and resilient.</li> </ul> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </p> <p style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; background: white;">Paving your way to your success:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; background: white;"> </span></p> <p style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </p> <ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;"> <li style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">You lead the shift from manual work to automation by creating clear standards and driving consistent adoption across teams.</li> <li style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">You partner effectively with developers to unblock deployments, using strong troubleshooting judgment and a calm, systematic approach.</li> <li style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">You have the ability to understand application dependencies and troubleshoot build/deployment errors to unblock developers in mixed environments.</li> <li style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">You balance modernization decisions pragmatically, helping teams choose between containers and VMs based on what each workload needs.</li> </ul> <p style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </p> <p style="text-align: center; line-height: 107%; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">If you are excited to be part of our team and grow with our OnTrac family, we invite you to apply! </span></strong></p> <p style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </p> <p style="text-align: center; line-height: 107%; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center; line-height: 107%; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 107%;">OnTrac is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer</span></strong></p> <p style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 107%;">Lasership, Inc. dba OnTrac Final Mile with its affiliates, including OnTrac Logistics, Inc. (collectively, "OnTrac" or the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, abilities, and experiences. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or age. Join us in our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. If you are excited to be part of our team and contribute to our talent acquisition efforts, we invite you to apply.</span></p> <p style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0in; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </p>

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