Cloud Engineer

i-Link Solutions; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

i-Link Solutions is seeking a Cloud Engineer at Expert level for the State of NY with the Department of Labor. You will design, deploy, and maintain cloud-based systems on GCP, build cloud-native apps, and manage the GCP foundation platform to enable seamless deployments.

The role requires 84 months of GCP experience, IaC with Terraform, and strong CI/CD expertise. You will mentor state staff, ensure security/compliance, and optimize resource usage across Linux/Windows environments.

Qualifications

• Eight-plus years of cloud design, development, deployment and maintenance in GCP
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and automation scripting (Python/PowerShell)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitHub repositories
• Experience with GKE, Linux and Windows server administration, and GCP services like Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, VPC/XPN, Compute Engine, Cloud Armor, Logging
• Knowledge of security, monitoring, and cost-management in cloud environments

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain cloud-based systems for state-wide applications
• Build and deploy cloud-native apps using cloud services like Cloud Build and Cloud Deploy
• Develop and manage the GCP foundation platform for application deployments
• Implement IaC with Terraform and monitor security/compliance standards
• Configure and manage common cloud services (IAM, networking, logging, OS, containers)
• Oversee CI/CD and continuous testing activities
• Mentor state staff in cloud technologies
• Maintain documentation and architecture diagrams
• Analyze cloud usage to optimize costs and performance

Skills

GCP design

Terraform IaC

CI/CD

Python scripting

Linux admin

Windows admin

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Prisma Cloud

Tenable

Job description

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Job Title: Cloud Engineer - Expert
Task ID: HBITS-08-14968
Position Duration: 30 Months
Client: State of NY
Agency: Department of Labor
Interview : In-Person
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Description
Activities include, but are not limited to:

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

Mandatory Qualifications

1 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. 2 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. 3 36 Months of experience using CI/CD pipeline technologies 4 36 Months of experience using GitHub repository 5 24 Months of experience using Prisma Cloud, Tenable, OS Patching/upgrading

Required Documentation

• Résumé
• Copy of Candidate Identification

(i.e., Driver's License/Green Card/Visa and Passport if applicable)

• Any documents referenced in the above Requested Qualifications

(i.e., professional certifications, degrees, etc.)

i-Link Solutions requires a Bachelor's Degree or its equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems or a closely related field of study for all positions.

Disclaimer

i-Link Solutions Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. We especially invite women, minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities to apply. EEO/AA/M/F/Vet/Disability