Cloud Engineer (Google Cloud Platform)

Trigyn Technologies Limited.; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Trigyn Technologies, Inc. seeks a Cloud Engineer in Albany, NY to design, implement, and test cloud-based systems for a multi-year program. You will build and maintain cloud solutions on GCP, using Terraform IaC and CI/CD practices, while ensuring security and cost efficiency.

You will mentor state staff developers, collaborate with Dev/Ops teams, and optimize resources to control cloud expenses, delivering reliable, scalable platforms.

Qualifications

• 84 months of experience designing, developing, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining cloud-based systems in GCP.
• 84 months of experience implementing, automating, and administering GCP infrastructure including Terraform and IaC.
• 36 months of experience using CI/CD pipeline technologies.
• 36 months of experience using GitHub repositories.
• 24 months of experience using Prisma Cloud, Tenable, OS patching.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain cloud-based systems in GCP.
• Build and deploy cloud-native applications using services like Cloud Build and Cloud Deploy.
• Manage the GCP foundation platform for application deployments.
• Implement IaC with Terraform and automate cloud solutions.
• Configure and manage central cloud services (IAM, networking, logging, OS, containers).
• Ensure security, compliance, and operational risk standards.
• Lead and mentor state staff developers in cloud technologies.
• Create and review infrastructure/DevOps architecture diagrams.
• Monitor cloud usage, optimize resources, and troubleshoot incidents.

Skills

GCP expertise

IaC Terraform

Python/PowerShell

CI/CD implementation

Team leadership

Cost optimization

Security/compliance

Monitoring/incident triage

Dev/Ops collaboration

Tools

Terraform

GKE

Compute Engine

Cloud Storage

VPC/XPN

Cloud SQL

Redis

Cloud Armor

Secret Manager

Logging/Monitoring

Pub/Sub

Cloud Build

Cloud Deploy

Prisma Cloud

Tenable

GitHub

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Trigyn's direct government client has an immediate need for Cloud Engineer in Albany, NY.

Description

The position is in support (operational, enhancements, debugging) of the project, a multi-year program effort to redesign, implement, and test business process improvements for the department’s customers, partners and internal staff.

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 Cloud SQL 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

• Applies engineering disciplines to cloud computing and brings a systematic approach to concerns of commercialization, standardization, and governance of cloud computing applications. Leverages the methods and tools of engineering in conceiving, developing, operating and maintaining cloud computing systems and solutions. Uses the economics of cloud resources to solve business problems.
• Candidate is able to provide guidance to large teams and/or has extensive industry experience and is considered at the top of his/her field.
• 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
• 36 Months of experience using GitHub repository
• 24 Months of experience using Prisma Cloud, Tenable, OS Patching/upgrading.

TRIGYN TECHNOLOGIES, INC. is an EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER and has been in business for 35 years.

TRIGYN is an ISO 27001:2022 and CMMI Level 5 certified company.