Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Overview

Senior Associate Cloud Engineer (GCP or AWS)

As a Senior Associate Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure solutions to ensure high availability, scalability, and security. You will work closely with engineering teams to optimize cloud environments and support business-critical applications.

Your Impact

The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer role focuses day to day on designing and implementing scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure and platform services on GCP or AWS.

Qualifications

Cloud Infrastructure (GCP or AWS)

Experience designing and implementing scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure and platform services on GCP or AWS.
Experience designing and implementing cloud foundations / landing zones (GCP foundations or AWS Landing Zones / Control Tower).
Managing core services:
- GCP: Compute Engine, Kubernetes (GKE), Cloud Functions, IAM
- AWS: EC2, Kubernetes (EKS), Lambda, IAM
Design and configure networking:
- GCP: VPC, subnets, Cloud Load Balancers, Cloud CDN, VPNs, Interconnect
- AWS: VPC, subnets, Elastic Load Balancing (ALB/NLB), CloudFront, VPN, Direct Connect
Manage identity and access:
- GCP IAM roles, service accounts, org policies
- AWS IAM roles, policies, users, SCPs
Implement storage and data solutions for infrastructure and observability:
- GCP: Cloud Storage, Filestore, Persistent Disks, BigQuery (infra logs/monitoring)
- AWS: S3, EFS, EBS, Redshift / Athena (infra logs/monitoring)

Automation & IaC (Infrastructure as Code)

Use advanced Terraform (preferred) with Terratest for infrastructure provisioning.
Ability to write reusable Terraform modules.
Automate workflows using:
- GCP: Cloud Build
- AWS: CodeBuild / CodePipeline
- Plus Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
Develop scripts in Python, Bash, or Go for automation and cloud integrations.

CI/CD Pipelines

Build and maintain pipelines for deploying applications to GCP or AWS using tools such as Jenkins or Harness.
Enable automated testing, canary releases, and blue-green deployments.
Integrate with artifact repositories:
- GCP: Artifact Registry, Container Registry
- AWS: ECR, CodeArtifact

Containers & Orchestration

Deploy, monitor, and scale applications on Kubernetes:
- GCP: Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
- AWS: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Manage Helm charts, Kubernetes manifests, and operators.
Apply policies and security best practices using OPA/Gatekeeper and Kubernetes-native security controls.

Security & Compliance

Apply least-privilege access and manage secrets using:
- GCP: Secret Manager
- AWS: Secrets Manager / Parameter Store
- or HashiCorp Vault
Secure Kubernetes workloads and compute resources using:
- GCP: Workload Identity, Binary Authorization, Shielded VMs, VPC Service Controls
- AWS: IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA), Image Scanning, Nitro Enclaves, VPC Endpoints / PrivateLink
Nice to have: Ensure compliance with CIS, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, or SOC 2, depending on industry.

Cost Optimization

Monitor and optimize cloud spend using:
- GCP: Budgets, Cost Explorer, Recommender APIs
- AWS: Budgets, Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor
Implement rightsizing for compute, Kubernetes nodes, and storage.
Use preemptible VMs / Spot Instances and autoscaling where applicable.

Collaboration & Process

Work with developers to containerize and deploy applications.
Document infrastructure, processes, and incident response runbooks.
Participate in on-call rotations and disaster recovery planning.

Set Yourself Apart With

Cloud certifications such as:
- GCP Professional Cloud Architect or AWS Solutions Architect
- CKA / CKAD
- Terraform certification

Additional Information

Annual Pay Range- USD $113000-160000

The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work.

An inclusive workplace that promotes diversity and collaboration.

Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities.
Competitive compensation and benefits package.
Flexibility to support work-life balance.
Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family.
Generous paid leave and holidays.
Wellness program and employee assistance.

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at hiring@publicis.sapient.com