Senior GCP Engineer: AI Platforms & Development

Title: Senior GCP Engineer: AI Platforms & Development

Location - Remote in USA

Role Summary

As a Sr GCP Engineer, you are the resident expert and engineering heart of our AI & Agentic capabilities. You serve as the lead specialist and authority on building and scaling agentic systems specifically within the Google Cloud ecosystem. While you will collaborate with other specialists across our consultancy to share best practices and cross-platform insights, you own the technical standard for how we build in GCP. Your role is to bridge the gap between AI models and production-ready applications by building the scalable backend services, APIs, and data pipelines required for enterprise AI.

Responsibilities

• AI Service & Agent Engineering: Build and maintain production-grade microservices and APIs that orchestrate Agent workflows using tools like Gemini Enterprise (fka Agentspace), CX Agent Studio, Vertex AI Agent Builder, Generative Playbooks, and the Agent Development Kit (ADK).
• Gemini Prompt & Behavior Engineering: Implement and optimize complex prompt templates, system instructions, and few-shot examples for Gemini models; tune agentic behavior through iterative testing and feedback loops.
• Productionizing AI Systems: Lead the transition of AI prototypes to scalable production environments using Cloud Run, GKE, Vertex AI Agent Engine, and Cloud Functions, incorporating advanced patterns like Function Calling, Grounding with Google Search, and Vertex AI Extensions.
• Data & Tool Integration: Implement the "glue code" and connectors required for Agents to interact with enterprise data via Gemini Enterprise (fka Agentspace), Vertex AI Search and Conversation (fka Gen AI App Builder), BigQuery, and specialized Vector Databases.
• Engineering Standards & CI/CD: Establish automated deployment pipelines (Cloud Build) and MLOps-aligned engineering practices specifically for LLM applications (e.g., prompt versioning...