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Title: GCP Cloud Engineer
Location: Denver, CO
Visa: GC and Citizen.
Duration: 12+ Months
Client: State of CO/CO OIT
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 GCP 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 GCP.
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
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
At least five (5) years of infrastructure development experience with hands-on experience with GCP 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
To apply for this job email your details to nibesh@smartiplace.net