Cloud Engineer

U.S. Department of Defense; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 139,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The U.S. Department of Defense is seeking a qualified candidate to design, engineer, deploy, and sustain enterprise cloud platform environments in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to support mission systems, data platforms, AI solutions, analytics workloads, and APIs. The role involves building foundational cloud environments, landing zones, and reusable templates to enable secure workload onboarding.

Applicants must be a U.S. citizen and meet DLA Information Operations, J6 security requirements.

Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. citizen.

Responsibilities

• Designs, engineers, configures, tests, deploys, and sustains enterprise cloud platform environments in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Performs the technical work to create foundational cloud environments and organizational components.

Job description

See below for important information regarding this job.

Position will be filled at any of the locations listed below. Site specific salary information as follows:

• Battle Creek, MI: $125,776- $163,514
• Columbus, OH: $131,245- $170,624
• Dayton, OH: $130,461 - $169,604
• Fort Belvoir, VA: $143,913- $187,093
• New Cumberland, PA: $143,913- $187,093
• Ogden, UT: $125,776- $163,514
• Philadelphia, PA: $138,595- $180,178
• Richmond, VA: $131,385- $170,806

Duties

• Designs, engineers, configures, tests, deploys, and sustains enterprise cloud platform environments in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that support mission systems, data platforms, artificial intelligence solutions, analytics workloads, and APIs.
• Performs the technical work to create foundational cloud environments and organizational components, including organization hierarchy design, project structures, shared platform services, baseline configurations, and approved deployment patterns.
• Builds and maintains GCP landing zones and shared platform services used to support secure onboarding of workloads into cloud environments.
• Builds and maintains reusable platform templates, infrastructure modules, deployment standards, and baseline configurations used across multiple efforts.
• Produces and maintains engineering artifacts required to support enterprise cloud platform operation, including architecture diagrams, configuration baselines, dependency records, operational standards, and sustainment documentation.
• Performs validation and testing of platform builds and environment changes to ensure they function correctly and support intended workloads.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Tour of Duty: Set Schedule
• Security Requirements: Non-Critical Sensitive with Secret Access
• Appointment is subject to the completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination, where reciprocity cannot be applied; unfavorably adjudicated background checks will be grounds for removal.
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
• Selective Service Requirement: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.
• Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
• Bargaining Unit Status: No
• Pre-Employment Physical: Not Required
• Selectees are required to have a REAL ID or other acceptable identification documents to access certain federal facilities. See https://www.tsa.gov/real-id for more information.
• This position and any future selections from this announcement may be used to fill various shifts located anywhere within DLA Information Operations, J6.