Principal Cloud Engineer

 

Logistics at full potential. 

 

At GXO, we’re constantly looking for talented individuals at all levels who can deliver the caliber of service our company requires. You know that a positive work environment creates happy employees, which boosts productivity and dedication. On our team, you’ll have the support to excel at work and the resources to build a career you can be proud of.

 

Principal Cloud Engineer

Are you ready to take your career to the next level with a rapidly growing global company? As the Principal Cloud Engineer, Google Cloud, you will serve as one of GXO's senior technical leaders responsible for building, implementing, and scaling our Google Cloud Platform. This is a deeply hands-on engineering role focused on delivering secure, production-ready cloud infrastructure, platform automation, Kubernetes, networking, and enterprise AI platform capabilities. Working alongside architects, security teams, and engineering partners, you'll transform cloud strategy into scalable, resilient, and operational solutions that power GXO's next generation of enterprise platforms.

If you're looking for an opportunity to build the cloud foundation for enterprise AI while shaping the future of Google Cloud engineering at global scale, join us at GXO.

Pay, benefits and more

We are eager to attract the best, so we offer competitive compensation and a generous benefits package, including full health insurance (medical, dental and vision), 401(k), life insurance, disability and more.

What you'll do on a typical day

• Build and scale GXO's Google Cloud Platform foundation, including organization hierarchy, landing zones, Shared VPC, IAM, Workload Identity Federation, Secret Manager, Cloud KMS/CMEK, Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP), and Cloud Logging and Monitoring.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules, project factory patterns, secure-by-default configurations, and standardized deployment patterns across multiple environments.
• Engineer and operate production-grade Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) platforms, including cluster architecture, networking, ingress/egress, autoscaling, observability, and operational runbooks.
• Translate enterprise architecture into secure, scalable, production-ready cloud implementations.
• Build Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards through reusable Terraform modules, GitOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines, policy guardrails, and platform automation.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, Artifact Registry, and related cloud-native tooling.
• Automate cloud platform operations, integrate Google Cloud APIs, and reduce operational overhead through engineering best practices.
• Engineer enterprise networking capabilities including Shared VPC, Private Service Connect, VPC Service Controls, Cloud NAT, firewall policies, segmentation, Cloud Interconnect, and High Availability VPN.
• Partner with Information Security to implement zero-trust cloud security including least privilege access, Workload Identity Federation, Binary Authorization, encryption, secrets management, audit logging, and data protection controls.
• Integrate Security Command Center, CSPM tooling, automated compliance, monitoring, alerting, tracing, and reliability engineering practices into the cloud platform.
• Build self-service platform capabilities that enable product, data, and AI engineering teams to rapidly consume cloud services while maintaining enterprise governance.
• Embed FinOps practices including cost attribution, budgeting, rightsizing, committed use planning, tagging standards, and cloud cost optimization.
• Engineer the Google Cloud foundation supporting GXO's Enterprise AI Platform, including GKE-based runtimes, AI gateways, model services, agent runtimes, MCP servers, Agent Registry, and governed Snowflake integrations.
• Partner with Data Engineering, Security, and Enterprise Architecture to deliver secure AI infrastructure supporting inference, agent execution, identity passthrough, and end-to-end traceability.
• Serve as a senior hands-on engineer by writing Terraform, reviewing pull requests, troubleshooting complex cloud issues, mentoring engineers, and raising engineering standards across the organization.

 

What you need to succeed at GXO

At a minimum, you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Comp