Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (GCP)

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. GCP Platform Technical Lead     Position Summary   We are looking for a GCP Principal Engineer to lead our Cloud Engineering team, owning the Google Cloud Platform for the enterprise. This is a foundational platform role — you are the GCP technical authority, setting architectural /engineering   direction,   establishing   engineering standards, and ensuring the platform is secure, scalable, and built to last.   Your role will include driving designs of the platform , mentor ing   the engineers around you, and   aligning   quality and best practices. You bring deep GCP   expertise , a platform-owner mindset, and the leadership presence to align engineers and stakeholders around a shared technical vision.   T his role demands a  cloud-first thinker  who ensures cloud solutions meet business needs efficiently while prioritizing Infrastructure as Code ( IaC ) to create repeatable, automated deployments. You need to have a proven   track record   of  architecting cloud environments from scratch .   You'll   drive cloud transformation initiatives   all CSP’s focusing on the   GCP    platform   while ensuring every design decision considers security, reliability, and scalability.   This is not a hands-off leadership role — you write code, review designs, and stay close to the work.   Major Responsibilities   1.  GCP Platform Ownership   • Own the enterprise GCP platform end-to-end: organization structure, resource hierarchy, networking architecture   while collaborating with several teams to ensure the platform is stable and compliant.    • Define and   maintain   the GCP landing zone — Shared VPC, Org Policies ,   and project factory patterns — as the foundation all product teams build on.   • Serve as the   one of the   final technical authorit ies   on GCP   engineering   decisions, reviewing designs for scalability, security, and operational excellence before they reach production.   • Build self-service platform capabilities that enable product engineering teams to move fast without compromising standards.   2.  Technical Team Leadership   • Lead the   GCP   cloud engineering team as the technical anchor — set direction, conduct design reviews, unblock engineers, and drive delivery on platform initiatives.   • Establish and enforce engineering standards:   IaC   patterns, naming conventions, tagging strategy, branching models, and deployment practices.   • Mentor engineers at all levels, building depth on the team and raising the bar on what “excellence” looks like in cloud engineering.   • Partner with architecture, security, operations, and business stakeholders to translate enterprise requirements into platform capabilities.   3.  Infrastructure as Code & Automation   • Drive Infrastructure as code as a core   principle    —   reusable modules, pipeline integration, state management, and policy guardrails.   • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, and Artifact Registry for both platform infrastructure and application teams.   • Write production-quality automation to extend platform functionality, integrate GCP APIs, and   eliminate   operational toil.   • Implement policy-as-code using OPA, Config Connector, and GCP Org Policies to enforce governance at scale without manual gatekeeping.   4.  Networking, Security & Compliance   • Architect