Google Cloud Platform Engineer

About this role

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 m...