GCP Cloud Engineer

Rapinno Tech; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A cloud solutions company is seeking a Strategic GCP Cloud Engineer to provide technical guidance and drive adoption of GCP services. The role includes responsibilities for planning, configuring, deploying, and operating cloud solutions, collaborating with Product Management and Data Engineering. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in public cloud environments and hands-on expertise in tools like BigQuery, Docker, and Terraform. Excellent communication skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with business-critical systems on Public Cloud.
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud products.
• Experience in container technology and CI/CD tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance for GCP's services.
• Plan, configure, and operate cloud solutions.
• Automate the build and configuration of IaaS solutions.

Skills

Performance tuning of BigQuery SQL scripts

Hands-on experience in GCP

Networking principles and protocols

Proficient in Python for automation

GitHub for version control

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Jenkins

Google Cloud Composer

BigQuery

Job description

Responsibilities

• As a Strategic GCP Cloud on the team, you will provide technical guidance to GCP's adoption and GCP's services. You'll provide application design guidance to modernize existing applications or write new applications. You will be collaborating on new application design and implementation. Additionally, you will work closely with Product Management and Data Engineering to build and constantly drive excellence.
• Plan, Configure, Deploy and Operate a cloud solution
• Configure access and security
• Ensure Performance standards by configuring Auto-Scaling Solution to meet varying load requirements.
• Automating the build and configuration of IaaS based solutions in Google Cloud Platform
• Deliver Proof of Concepts for new Solutions on Cloud
• Good written/Oral Communication, Presentation, Interactive skills with the team across geography
• Works well under pressure and meets deadlines
• Flexible to work either independently or with the team.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience building and supporting large-scale, business-critical systems on Public Cloud (Google Cloud Platform & AWS)
• Strong experience in performance tuning of BigQuery SQL scripts.
• Hands-on experience in GCP, Cloud Composer, BigQuery, and Looker.
• Working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform
• Experience hosting an application on GCP using Compute Engine, App Engine, Cloud SQL, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage
• Hands on Experience in Dev ops, ansible, jenkins, jira and artifactory
• Requires experience with Cloudhealth, Composer and Airflow
• Good understanding of cloud design considerations and limitations and their impact on Pricing
• Networking principles and protocols such as IP subnetting, routing, firewall rules, Virtual Private Cloud, LoadBalancer, Cloud DNS, Cloud CDN, etc
• Proficient in a modern scripting language (preferably Python) for automation of build tasks
• Knowledge of Application Monitoring using Google Stackdriver
• Experience with Big Data on GCP BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataproc, Dataflow
• Prior experience working with: container technology such as Docker, version control systems (Github), build management and CI/CD tools (Concourse, Jenkins), and monitoring tools (App Dynamics, etc.
• Experience with infrastructure configuration management tools such as Terraform, Puppet, and Chef