Somewhere between the whiteboard sketch and the green deploy badge is the Cloud Engineer role we're opening in Amarillo, TX. A contract Cloud Engineer role that values ownership over busywork, pays $71,000 - $96,000, and invests in your long-term growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Review pull requests and uphold engineering standards across the technology team
- Reproduce the bias-to-action bug from the Amarillo field report, then make it impossible again
- Build AWS Lambda dashboards so Google's technology team stops asking engineers for numbers
- Translate Flexibility metrics into the one chart Google leadership checks each morning
- Turn Google's Pulumi on-call noise into alerts that actually mean something
- Reach into legacy OpenShift modules and leave them cleaner than you found them
- Own the client-focused edge cases in Google's Docker billing nobody else wants to touch
What You'll Bring
- Demonstrated wins in technology work somewhere near Amarillo, TX
- Strong rapport-building skills and a genuinely positive presence
- The self-awareness to know which problems are yours to solve
- 4+ years navigating the politics that technology work attracts
- Comfortable owning projects from concept through delivery
The reputation Google enjoys across TX wasn't bought; the tinker-friendly Amarillo team earned it one technology project at a time. We move fast on PagerDuty but slow down whenever someone says they feel rushed past good judgment.
Joining us means $71,000 - $96,000, a clear promotion ladder, paid family leave, and mentors invested in your success.
We refreshed it today so candidates know the contract role is genuinely open.
Seize this opportunity in Amarillo, TX and apply before the deadline.
Coordinates: 31.9686, -99.9018