• U.S Citizenship Required
Seeking a Senior Google Cloud Computing Engineer with an active Interim Secret clearance or higher. The candidate will be part of a team responsible for the architecture design, planning, management, support, and oversight of the GCP environments. This team proactively maintains the existing GCP architecture and ensures adherence to service level agreement (SLA metrics. We are continuously experimenting with methods to streamline performance, reduce administrative overhead and workload, and deliver a seamless user experience with our customers. This program is an existing global, interconnected, virtualized, hybrid, and IT infrastructure hosting mission systems, applications, services, and data.
Job Responsibilities:
• Design GCP (Google Cloud Platform) environments and topologies.
• Guide and contribute to O&S Sprint Planning efforts with planned maintenance work for each sprint.
• Regularly check-in on team performance to identify issues and blockers.
• Provide input to Sprint Reviews.
• Provide GCP security and monitoring solutions implementation, including automated responses.
• Maximize efficient use of tools and automation (scripting - Terraform, ARM templates).
• Configure and troubleshoot cloud, virtual, and physical hardware and software systems.
• Proactively identify and resolve operational, tooling, and process inefficiencies.
• Develop and maintain project and design documentation.
• Develop and maintain process and support documentation.
• Update Knowledge base and Standard Operating Procedures.
• Maintain regular contact with customers during support and projects and responding promptly to requests.
• Provide technical assistance and training to users.
Required Education and Experience:
• Bachelor's degree and five (5) or more years of experience. Additional years of experience will be accepted in lieu of degree.
Required Clearance:
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance required to maintain employment.
Required Certifications:
• Security + or equivalent DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II Certification or higher.
Required Skills:
• At least two (2) years of experience in a Google Cloud Environment (AWS, Azure, or OCI cloud environment development and/or engineering will be considered).
Demonstrated experience with some or all of the following:
• Networking
• SQL
• Jenkins
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Jira/Confluence
• Artifactory
• Guacamole
• Knowledge and experience working with DevSecOps tools.
• Experience creating, delegating and prioritizing tickets within an IT ticketing system such as ServiceNow or Jira.
• Experience preparing technical documentation.
• Experience working in a team environment with the ability to mentor junior team members.
Desired Skills:
• Experience with other cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, OCI, GCP).
• Zero trust architectures.
• Experience with automation tools including Ansible and Terraform.
• Experience with containerization tools such as Kubernetes.
• In-depth understanding of and experience as a cloud engineer with Networking, VPNs, IaaS, PaaS, storage, Active Directory, F5, Barracuda
