GCP Engneer

Primary Responsibilities:

• Cloud Infrastructure Deployment: Configure and deploy GCP Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) environments and cloud instances, ensuring alignment with designs provided by Cloud Architects and team requirements.
• Security & Compliance: Collaborate with the NetSecOps team to establish and enforce security controls, ensuring compliance with organizational policies and CISO requirements in an automated manner.
• Cloud Solutions Optimization: Evaluate and recommend new GCP features and services for potential adoption, optimizing the use of the cloud platform to meet project and organizational objectives.
• Access Management: Oversee user, organization, and group management within GCP, ensuring proper permissions and access are configured in line with IAM requirements.
• Monitoring & Reporting: Develop monitoring, logging, and reporting capabilities to support cloud management and provide insights for effective decision-making.
• Documentation & Standards: Define, document, and publish standards and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the use of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS within GCP, ensuring consistent and efficient adoption across the organization.
• Advocacy & Training: Advocate for the cloud platform's capabilities and support internal teams in its adoption, providing guidance and training as needed.
• Escalation & Troubleshooting: Act as a Tier-2 escalation point for on-call and break-fix incidents. Provide troubleshooting and resolution for production issues outside of standard working hours as part of an on-call rotation.
• Collaboration with CloudOps Team: Drive continuous improvement in cloud operations, ensuring the cloud infrastructure is maintained and improved in a scalable and automated way.
• Vendor Management: Handle day-to-day interactions with cloud vendors to meet project and organizational objectives.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience: At least five (5) years of hands-on experience in infrastructure development with a focus on GCP, including core services such as compute, networking, storage, content delivery, security, deployment, and automation technologies.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Minimum five (5) years of experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or similar automation technologies.
• Technical Expertise: Proven expertise in cloud infrastructure solutions, including Windows and Linux IaaS, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, security, storage, networking, OSS, containers, and automation technologies.
• Large-Scale Deployments: Demonstrated experience managing large-scale infrastructure deployments in enterprise-wide environments.
• CI/CD Automation: Experience with automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Scripting Skills: Strong proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, and PowerShell.
• Certifications: Google Cloud Foundational Certification or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional Cloud Architect Certification (or similar).
• Terraform Expertise: Advanced experience with Terraform for GCP infrastructure management.
• Azure DevOps: Familiarity with Azure DevOps for CI/CD automation and cloud infrastructure management.

Additional Requirements:

• Must be available to participate in a weekly after-hours on-call rotation for troubleshooting and resolving production issues.
• Ability to pass required agency background checks, which may include criminal justice information, state, and federal background checks.