Sr Engineer - Cloud Enablement

Role overview

Sr Engineer - Cloud Enablement at Target

Design, build, deploy, and support scalable cloud platform capabilities using cloud services, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP) , with a strong focus on reliability, security, automation, and developer experience in Golang.

Responsibilities

• Implement cloud engineering best practices across resource provisioning, configuration management, monitoring, observability, security, governance, and cost optimization.
• Develop and maintain cloud infrastructure and platform services using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technologies to automate infrastructure deployment and configuration.
• Build and maintain APIs, automation services, and operational tooling that simplify cloud operations and improve engineering productivity.
• Drive continuous improvement by adopting and advancing automation, orchestration, GitOps, self-service tooling, and reusable platform patterns .
• Apply your technical expertise and stay current with emerging technologies and practices across cloud computing, Kubernetes, platform engineering, and DevOps.
• Evaluate new technologies and contribute to technical decision-making.
• Initiate and execute research and proof-of-concept activities to assess new technologies and approaches.
• Provide technical guidance for both routine and complex engineering challenges, including troubleshooting issues across cloud infrastructure, networking, IAM, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, logging, and tracing.
• Escalate issues when appropriate.
• Participate in complex design, construction, automation, migration, and implementation initiatives, ensuring solutions meet architectural, security, compliance, and operational requirements.
• Establish and evolve engineering standards and best practices for monitoring, testing, automation, security, and maintenance of cloud platform components, infrastructure services, and shared engineering capabilities.
• Maintain a strong understanding of the organization’s technical capabilities, cloud infrastructure, platform services, and broader technology environment.

Required qualifications

• Four-year degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of experience in software development (Golang), cloud engineering (Google Cloud), platform engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or infrastructure engineering, with a focus on cloud services.
• Strong domain knowledge of cloud platforms, including account/project management, compute, storage, databases, networking, serverless technologies, IAM, security, observability, and cost management .
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane , or similar tools.
• Experience developing APIs, automation, and operational tooling using Golang, Python, and Bash scripting .
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker, Kubernetes , and managed Kubernetes platforms such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) .
• Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and tracing technologies such as OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Google Cloud Operations, Splunk, Datadog , or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with Linux environments, virtual machines, containers, networking, DNS, load balancing, and cloud-native runtime environments.
• Ability to communicate and coordinate effectively with project teams, application teams, partners, and stakeholders.
• Strong expertise in analyzing and optimizing system capacity, performance, reliability, scalability, security, and operational health .
• Experience building highly scalable distributed systems, internal developer platforms, automation frameworks, or shared cloud platform services .
• Know More About Us Here:
• Life at Target- https://india.target.com/
• Benefits- https://india.target.com/life-at-target/workplace/benefits
• Follow us on social media: https://www.linkedin.com/company/target/
• Target Tech- https://tech.target.com/

Employment details

• Location: Bangalore [India]

About the employer

• As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers.
• At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy and that hasn’t happened by accident.
• Some of the best minds from diverse backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes.
• That winning formula is especially apparent in Bengaluru, where Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target’s global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the company’s global strategy and operations.
• Target Tech Overview:
• Every time a guest enters a Target store or browses Target.com , they experience the impact of Target’s investments in technology and innovation.
• We’re the technologists behind one of the most loved retail brands, delivering joy to millions of our guests, team members, and communities.
• Our global in-house technology team of more than 5,000 of engineers, data scientists, architects, coaches and product managers strive to make Target the most convenient, safe and joyful place to shop.
• We use agile practices and leverage open-source software to adapt and build best-in-class technology for our team members and guests—and we do so with a focus on diversity and inclusion, experimentation and continuous learning.
• Pyramid Overview:
• The Cloud Enablement team builds and operates the foundational public cloud platform that engineering teams across Target rely on to deliver at enterprise scale.
• Working primarily on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the team owns a hardened, standardized cloud foundation spanning compute, Kubernetes, storage, networking, and identity — the core building blocks that power Target's digital and data-driven experiences.
• Our mission is to make cloud simple, secure, and cost-effective to consume: we design the opinionated patterns, policies, and guardrails that keep workloads safe and reliable, and we build the APIs, automation, and self-service tooling that let teams adopt and scale cloud services with confidence.
• Following an infrastructure-as-code philosophy, we treat repeatability, resilience, and security as first-class engineering outcomes rather than afterthoughts.
• We partner closely with platform and product teams to onboard new workloads, drive cloud cost stewardship, and continuously raise the bar on operational excellence, availability, and readiness for our highest-traffic events.
• As a lead engineer on this team, you'll help shape cloud strategy, architect platform capabilities and tooling, and set technical direction that multiplies the productivity of engineers across the company — a high-impact role at the center of how Target builds in the cloud.
• As a Senior Engineer on the Cloud Enablement team, you'll contribute: