Google Cloud Platform Cloud Data engineer ----Remote

Job Title : Google Cloud Platform Cloud Engineer

Location: Denver, Colorado Remote 100%

Duration: Long term

Job Type : Contract (We can consider only W2)

(Candidate need to be in local to Colorado or can relocate to colorado also fine)

Responsibilities:

• The Google Cloud Platform 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 Google Cloud Platform 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.

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 Google Cloud Platform 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 Google Cloud Platform
• 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

Qualifications:

• At least five (5) years of infrastructure development experience with hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform
• 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 QUALIFICATIONS:

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