Lead Cloud Engineer (GCP)

Company: S3
Location: Charlotte
Posted on: April 2, 2026

Job Description:

Job Description Strategic Staffing Solutions is currently looking for a Lead Cloud Engineer for a W2 contract opportunity with one of our largest clients! This is a W2 contract opportunity, and the candidates should be willing to work on our W2 ONLY, NO C2C. Lead Cloud Engineer Senior Engineer (S3): strong independent contributor with deep Spark/GCP experience Location: Charlotte, NC Type: W2 Contract – 12 months Work Schedule: Onsite-Hybrid Schedule: 3 days in office Overview This role supports the Model Risk Management platform used to run statistical risk models and large-scale data workloads. The engineer will help maintain and enhance a cloud-native platform used by statisticians and data scientists working with millions of customer accounts. The platform runs on Google Cloud Platform and supports distributed data processing using Apache Spark. Experience with large-scale datasets, GCP services, Spark, and containerized microservices is essential. Experience in financial services is preferred but not required. Key Responsibilities Platform Engineering Deploy, configure, and maintain OpenShift clusters or GCP projects for Spark workloads Support platform capabilities for statistical model execution Distributed Data Processing Design and implement large-scale data processing workflows using Apache Spark Tune Spark jobs using Kubernetes orchestration and auto-scaling Application & Tooling Build Python/Django services and microservices supporting platform users Configure tooling and internal applications for data processing and model execution Automation & CI/CD Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Sonar, Harness, Helm Monitoring & Troubleshooting Monitor Spark jobs and cluster health using Prometheus, Grafana, and GCP tools Debug distributed systems and optimize resource utilization Security & Compliance Implement RBAC and encryption for data in transit and at rest Collaboration Work closely with cross-functional teams to define requirements and support deployments Qualifications 3 years with Apache Spark 2 years Django development 1 years creating/maintaining conda environments 2 years with OpenShift/Kubernetes Experience working with GCP or another major cloud provider Technical Skills Spark frameworks (PySpark, Scala, or Java) OpenShift/Kubernetes administration Docker container experience Python, Scala, or Java programming Experience with GitHub Actions, Helm, Harness Knowledge of distributed systems and cloud storage (S3, GCS, HDFS) Education Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field “Beware of scams. S3 never asks for money during its onboarding process.”

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