Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

The role

You will own and evolve a GCP-based cloud platform and delivery pipeline for a large OEM program. You will build infrastructure as code, automate CI/CD paths, and act as the on-site technical point of contact at the customer facility.

What you will do

• Own and evolve the GCP cloud platform including GKE, IAM, Vertex, and networking
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code in Terraform
• Operate the platform using GitOps practices with Argo CD and Helm
• Design and maintain CI/CD automation with progressive delivery patterns
• Build observability and alerting and lead troubleshooting
• Serve as the on-site owner for cloud access and environment issues
• Manage program AI resources including model access, GPU capacity, and quotas
• Optimize AI model deployment for latency, throughput, and cost
• Automate recurring operational work to reduce toil
• Partner with Sonatus engineering teams in California, Ireland, Korea, and India

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building and operating production cloud infrastructure
• Deep, hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GKE, IAM, VPC/networking, Cloud Build, or equivalent)
• Strong Terraform skills
• Practical experience with GitOps workflows and tooling (Argo CD, Flux, Helm)
• Solid Kubernetes and containerization experience
• Strong automation and scripting ability (Python, Go, or Bash)
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
• Comfort operating independently in a customer environment
• Experience with ML or AI workloads running on cloud infrastructure

Nice to have

• Experience working embedded at, or delivering into, a large enterprise or automotive customer environment
• Familiarity with cloud cost management and FinOps practices
• Security and compliance experience in a regulated or enterprise setting

Benefits

• Health care plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Flexible and Dependent Care Expense program
• Retirement plan (401k)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Unlimited paid time off per year
• 14+ paid holidays
• Wellness benefit allowance
• Phone & Internet reimbursement
• Computer Accessory Allowance

About the company

Sonatus is driving the transformation to AI-enabled software-defined vehicles. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, the company has 250+ employees worldwide.