Our client is seeking a Google Cloud Engineer for a 3month contract with a high probability of extension.
Job Responsibilities:
• Focus on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and eliminating work through automation.
• Influence application and security architecture and design across multi and hybrid cloud platforms.
• Peer-reviewing infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
• Partnering with application and infrastructure teams to develop reusable cloud patterns.
• Deployment and troubleshooting of infrastructure code.
• Conducting post-incident reviews and root cause analysis and building monitoring and automation to prevent future incidents.
• Responsible for creating, adapting, and maintaining system configurations for applications which are running on cloud platforms
• Simplify the process of providing instances of organization’s products by leveraging open-source solutions and automation pipelines.
• Identify opportunities to build self-service capabilities and automate infrastructure and application deployments.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for major incident response and application deployments.
Technical Qualifications:
• Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks.
• A systematic problem-solving approach coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive.
• Ability to quickly pickup and understand where newly released cloud services would be appropriate for business applications.
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools such Terraform.
• Experience using Git for source control management.
• Ability to proficiently write code in Python and terraform.
• Understanding of foundational GCP services and SaaS API such as VPCs, Google Maps, Google Compute Engine, etc
• In-depth knowledge of security and IAM within Google, including the management and operation of Google Cloud Identify, Google Organization Policies, and Google Organization/Folder/Projects.
• Familiarity with one or more log and event aggregation and monitoring systems such as Splunk, Goole BigQuery, or similar.
Qualifications:
• 3 years+ experience in Google Cloud (GCP)
• Experience in working in an Agile/Scrum-focused organization.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; comfortable with translating technical problems to non-technical audiences.
• MS/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
• One or more Associate or Professional-level GCP certificates.