- Company Name
- VeeRteq Solutions LLC
- Job Title
- Practice Leader - Cloud & Platform Engineering (GCP)
- Job Description
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**Job title:** Practice Leader – Cloud & Platform Engineering (GCP)
**Role Summary:**
Lead and scale the Cloud & Platform Engineering practice, translating strategic vision into actionable delivery plans. Own client engagement success, guide technical strategy, oversee platform engineering initiatives, and drive practice maturity, while mentoring teams and supporting pre‑sales activities.
**Expectations:**
- Translate practice strategy into measurable delivery outcomes.
- Deliver projects on scope, time, budget and client satisfaction.
- Drive continuous improvement of service offerings, delivery frameworks, and automation standards.
- Mentor and develop architects, engineers, and DevOps specialists.
- Shape proposal content, enable business development, and influence client strategy.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- Develop and evolve long‑term vision and maturity roadmap for the Platform Engineering practice.
- Own delivery success of multiple client engagements; ensure alignment to scope, schedules, budgets, and objectives.
- Provide technical leadership, enforce standardized delivery methods, agile practices, and automation.
- Champion IaC (Terraform, Pulumi), CI/CD, GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux), Kubernetes, container platforms, observability/SRE, and security‑integrated pipelines.
- Define implementation approaches for developer platforms, environment vending, policy‑as‑code, and lifecycle management.
- Mentor and coach team members, promote skill growth and best practices.
- Collaborate with sales and solution teams on proposals, RFPs, effort estimation, and delivery strategy.
- Lead process improvements, create blueprints, templates, reusable modules to accelerate delivery.
- Monitor industry trends, evaluate emerging technologies, and integrate them into the practice.
**Required Skills:**
- 15+ years technology consulting/delivery, 10+ in platform engineering, DevOps, or cloud architecture leadership.
- Proven multi‑disciplinary team leadership and large‑scale implementation experience.
- Deep expertise in GCP, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform/Pulumi, GitOps, CI/CD, and observability tools.
- Strong developer productivity platform and internal portal knowledge.
- Agile/DevOps experience with focus on automation and repeatability.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and business‑development skills.
- Prior pre‑sales and proposal development experience.
**Required Education & Certifications:**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field (Master’s preferred).
- Professional certifications such as GCP Professional Cloud Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or Azure Solutions Architect are highly desirable.