This role supports the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contract and currently has an opening for a Google Cloud Platform Engineer.
Location: This position will be remote.
Responsibilities:
We are seeking a Cloud Engineer with expertise in multiple cloud platforms. A successful individual will be responsible for developing in a scalable cloud-native solutions, and ensuring best practices across architecture, development, deployment and security. This is a hands-on technical role that requires rolling up your sleeves to architect, code, and debug.
- Design scalable, resilient, and secure cloud solutions for Google environment.
- Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and assess their potential impact on organizational goals.
- Drive adoption of DevOps practices, infrastructure as code, and automation frameworks.
- Optimize application performance and reliability in cloud environments.
- Design secure cloud architectures implementing zero-trust principles and defense-in-depth strategies.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, etc.) and regulatory requirements.
- Implement identity and access management solutions and security monitoring frameworks.
- Facilitate customer onboarding and implement a consistent pathway to cloud adoption.
- Assess legacy systems and design modernization strategies including containerization and microservices.
- Develop migration methodologies and ensure minimal organizational disruption during transitions.
- Manage and optimize cloud environments, networking, VPNs, IaaS, PaaS, and SQL systems.
- Implement and maintain Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Jira, Confluence, Artifactory, and Guacamole to support DevSecOps practices.
- Containerize applications to enhance scalability and deployment efficiency.
- Support the design and development of Shared Services.
- Configure and troubleshoot cloud, virtual, and physical hardware and software systems.
- Establish and maintain SQL and NoSQL databases, ensuring their performance and reliability.
- Prepare detailed technical documentation to support development and operational processes.
- Conduct security assessments and remediate vulnerabilities in cloud environments.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including development, operations, security, and product management.
- Create reference architectures, design patterns, and technical standards for cloud implementations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree and 4+ years or more of experience; additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.
- Must have an active Secret clearance.
- 1 or more cloud certifications
- US citizenship required.
- Certifications: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT-2)
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
- Experience onboarding customer log-data from cloud platforms to on-premises or cloud-based analysis environments such as Elastic or Splunk.
- Cloud architecture and design experience.
Preferred Skills
· Experience with USAF Cloud One or Platform 1.
· Experience with Zero Trust Architecture.
· Excellent customer service skills, with experience working in a customer-facing position.
· Strong understanding Active Directory, Azure AD, SAML and the standards, procedures, and processes.
· Experience with Ansible, AWS console, Elastic, AWS, Azure, Jira, Confluence, Git, Bitbucket and various cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings.
· Administration experience with cloud-based applications (MS O365, SharePoint, Azure AD, AWS).
· Experience administering Windows Server, and related services.
· Cloud certifications in Google clouds.
Benefits
SES provides a competitive salary and the following benefits:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- AD&D
- STD
- LTD
- Company paid Life Insurance
- 401k with employer contribution
- Paid Time Off
- Pet Insurance
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