Cloud Engineer

HBITS: HBITS-08-14969

Expert, Cloud Engineer

30 month contract

Interview: In-person

Work model: 50% telecommuting, 50% Office per week

--- Project Description ---
The position is in support (operational, enhancements, debugging) of the UISIm project, a multi-year program effort to redesign, implement, and test business process improvements for the Department of Labor's customers, partners and internal staff. UISIm replaces the 40+ year old Unemployment Insurance (UI) legacy computer systems and manual procedures with a new and improved integrated computer system.

--- Day-to-Day Tasks ---
1. Design, develop, and maintain cloud-based systems, ensuring efficient data storage and adherence to
security policies.
2. Building and deploying cloud-native applications using cloud services like cloud build, cloud deploy.
Build and manage the GCP foundation platform to enable application deployments
3. Engineer solutions on GCP foundation platform using Infrastructure As Code methods using Terraform
4. Integrate, configure, deploy and manage centrally provided common cloud services (e.g. IAM,
networking, logging, Operating systems, Containers.)
5. Consume centrally agreed base Hardened OS (Linux and Windows)
6. Configure backup of VMs and CloudSQL and restore.
7. Ensure compliance with centrally defined Security
8. Ensure compliancy with Operational risk standards (E.g. Network, Firewall, OS, Logging, Monitoring,
Availability, Resiliency)
9. Build and support continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD) and continuous testing activities
10. Engineering activities to implement patches provided centrally
11. Update support and operational documentation as required
12. Ensure good Change management practice is implemented as specified by central standards.
13. Mentor state staff developers in cloud technologies.
14. Create and review infrastructure/DevOps architecture diagrams.
15. Analyzing cloud usage and optimizing resource allocation to control cloud expenses.
16. Monitoring cloud systems for performance issues, identifying potential problems, and troubleshooting
technical incidents.
17. Diagnose technical issues, analyze logs, and effectively troubleshoot complex cloud problems.
18. Working closely with development teams, system administrators, and business stakeholders to
translate requirements into cloud solutions.

--- Required Qualifications ---
• 84 months of experience designing, developing, deploying, monitoring, and
maintaining cloud-based systems in GCP in accordance with security,
performance, availability, and cost-management requirements, including
cloud-native application deployment, resource optimization, system
monitoring, log analysis, incident diagnosis and troubleshooting, and use of
GCP Cloud Build and Cloud Deploy.
• 84 months of experience implementing, automating, and administering GCP
cloud infrastructure, including Infrastructure as Code using Terraform;
automation using Python or PowerShell; GKE cluster, pod, and service
administration; Linux and Windows server administration; and configuration
and administration of GCP services including Compute Engine, Cloud
Storage, VPC/XPN, Cloud SQL, Redis, Secret Manager, CDN, load balancing,
Cloud Armor, Logging, Monitoring, Alerting, and Pub/Sub.
• 36 Months of experience using CI/CD pipeline technologies
• 36Months of experience using GitHub repository
• 24 Months of experience using Prisma Cloud, Tenable, OS
Patching/upgrading

MVP Consulting Plus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities during the application process.