GCP Cloud Engineer

Direct End Client: State of Colorado

Job Title: GCP Cloud Engineer
Duration: 12 Months
Start Date: Asap
Location: Remote (Denver CO)
Position Type: Contract
Interview Type: Inperson / WebCam
Ceipal ID: SCOGCP740SP

Requirement ID:

Description: - The GCP Cloud Engineer is responsible for implementing the designs and standards provided by the Cloud Architect and established by the Cloud Operations team as a whole and deploying application hosting environments using repeatable templates/tools/processes with a primary focus on the GCP cloud platform within a DevOps structured team and methodology. Additionally based on guidance by the Cloud Architect configurations automation and tools that will allow cloud services to be consumed in an efficient manner should be established. Ultimately the Cloud Engineer is the primary resource assigned to projects targeted for cloud deployment. They are responsible for provisioning the application hosting environments and associated monitoring and reporting to accomplish project objectives while acting as the primary infrastructure point of contact on such projects. They are also responsible for crafting publishing socializing and overseeing adherence to the standards they establish and modifying them to achieve the strategic goals of OIT and the tactical needs of the applications deployed to the cloud. In addition they will drive continuous improvement within the CloudOps team as well as lifecycle management and exploration into evolving cloud-based solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Configure and deploy VPC environments and cloud instances as designed by the Cloud Architect to meet the needs across all hosted workloads
• Evaluate and collaborate with NetSecOps team to establish security controls necessary to meet policy and standards from the CISO ideally in a templated and automated manner
• Analyze and recommend new GCP capabilities for consideration for adoption
• Manage users/orgs/groups/access within the cloud platform based on requirements defined by IAM team
• Create monitoring and reporting capabilities to meet management needs of cloud platform
• Define and document standards and procedures (SOPs) for consumption of IaaS (via IaC) PaaS and SaaS on GCP
• Communicate/advocate capabilities of the cloud platform to drive adoption
• Act as Tier-2 escalation point for on-call/break-fix efforts to diagnose and resolve incidents and problems with cloud-based systems
• Work with NetSecOps resources to ensure network security policy is established in a consistent repeatable and automated manner

Required Qualifications:

• At least five (5) years of infrastructure development experience with hands-on experience with GCP foundation services related to computing network storage content delivery administration and security deployment and management and automation technologies.
• At least five (5) years of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience in Terraform or similar.
• Deep domain expertise in cloud infrastructure solutions (i.e. Windows and Linux IaaS Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Security Management Storage Networking OSS containers and Infrastructure as code technology) breadth of technical experience and technical aptitude to learn and adjust to new technologies and cloud trends required.
• Experience and understanding of large-scale infrastructure deployments in enterprise-wide environments are required.
• Experience with automated Continuous Integration/Delivery
• Scripting skills in Python Bash and PowerShell
• Google Foundational certification

Preferred Skills:

• Professional Cloud Architect certification
• Experience with Terraform
• Experience with Azure DevOps