Senior Platform Engineer - Windows Cloud

- Design and sustain scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions on Google Cloud Platform, focusing on highly available Windows Server clusters and workloads. - Develop and manage reusable PowerShell modules and frameworks to automate complex administrative tasks and ensure environment health checks and self-healing infrastructure. - Lead the security hardening of Windows images by employing CIS Benchmarks or STIGs, integrating compliance into the automated build process. - Oversee the development and lifecycle management of the Windows image pipeline for our Google Compute Engine platform. - Administer and automate Windows identity services, including Active Directory and Group Policy Object (GPO) design in a cloud environment. - Use Packer and PowerShell to automate the creation, updating, and distribution of secure Windows machine images across various Google Cloud Platform projects. - Conduct in-depth troubleshooting of Windows Internals, analyzing memory dumps, CPU spikes, and I/O bottlenecks to enhance system performance. - Ensure code quality by governing Git workflows for infrastructure code, adhering to best practices (including Pester testing, error handling, and documentation). - Implement secrets management and manage identities through SAML/SSO to ensure platform security. - Enhance system reliability, observability, and performance by proactively engineering solutions and resolving issues. - Collaborate and mentor cross-functional teams, including developers, networking specialists, and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), to gather requirements and manage deliverables.