Senior Platform Engineer (Harness CI/CD, Google Cloud Platform, Terraform, Apigee X) -Remote(USA)-W2 Role
About the role
We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer with deep Harness CI/CD expertise to support enterprise platform engineering initiatives.
You’ll build standardized deployment patterns, reusable pipeline frameworks, governance controls, and developer self-service capabilities for cloud-native applications on Google Cloud.
What you’ll do
Standardize CI/CD: Design enterprise deployment patterns in Harness, and build reusable pipeline, stage, and step templates.
Enforce governance: Establish automated policy enforcement with OPA, along with compliance and security controls in the pipelines.
Deploy securely on Google Cloud Platform: Implement secure deployment practices, including canary and blue/green strategies, traffic splitting, secret management, and environment configuration.
Automate infrastructure: Build Terraform-based provisioning with reusable, modular code for service accounts, IAM roles, and cloud resources.
Automate API delivery: Deploy Apigee X API proxies through CI/CD using apigeecli and apigeectl.
Enable developers: Support onboarding and self-service deployment, including Harness IDP workflows.
Document: Write technical documentation, runbooks, and migration guides.
Must have
- 7+ years of DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Engineering experience
- Extensive, recent hands-on Harness CI/CD, including reusable pipeline, stage, and step templates, Pipeline-as-Code, and YAML pipelines
- Git-based workflows and PR-driven deployment models
- OPA (Open Policy Agent) policies in Harness, plus CI/CD governance, compliance, and security controls
- Strong Google Cloud Platform experience, including Cloud Functions
- Canary and blue/green deployments, traffic splitting, secret management, and environment configuration
- Advanced Terraform with reusable, modular code for service accounts, IAM, and platform services
- Google Cloud Platform IAM best practices: least privilege, Workload Identity Federation, and service account impersonation
- Security scanning and policy enforcement within CI/CD pipelines
- Strong communication and documentation skills
Nice to have
- Apigee X: API proxy development and deployment automation with apigeecli and apigeectl
- Harness IDP and developer self-service workflow implementation
- Platform engineering and Internal Developer Platform experience
- Enterprise DevOps transformation initiatives
- Automated linting and vulnerability scanning integrations
- Developer enablement and onboarding workflow design