• Act as the primary technical point of contact for Engineering and Product teams, providing daily operational support for Platform requests. • Design, deploy, and manage scalable services on GCP. • Build and optimize repeatable deployment pipelines and deployment blueprints. • Monitor cloud expenditure and implement right-sizing initiatives to support departmental cost-reduction goals. • Maintain comprehensive monitoring and alerting frameworks to ensure high availability and lead rapid incident response for critical systems. • Execute stack-hardening tasks, including vulnerability scanning, access control audits, and secrets detection. • Manage the ongoing updates, patching, and maintenance of platform components.