GCP Cloud Engineer - Federal Landing Zone & Automation

Peraton; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 86,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking an experienced Google Cloud Platform Engineer to support a federal government customer. You will onboard and configure the GCP landing zone and provide infrastructure support similar to AWS GovCloud and Azure environments.

Responsibilities include cloud provisioning, automation scripting, monitoring, patching, and incident resolution. Expertise in GCP, IAM, security policy, and observability is required; on-call duties rotate across the team.

Qualifications

• 5 years with BS/BA or 9 years with a HS Diploma/equivalent
• 5 years experience in Google Cloud Platform in an enterprise setting
• GCP organizations, IAM, security policy and platform observability practices
• Development and automation skills such as Git, Python, CICD, Ansible etc.
• GCP Cloud Engineer certification or equivalent
• ServiceNow or similar ticketing system experience
• Must be a US Citizen
• Must be able to obtain and maintain the required agency clearance

Responsibilities

• Cloud project provisioning tasks, automation scripting, monitoring and support activities, patching support, change and incident ticket resolution.
• Expertise with GCP and other cloud service providers required.

Skills

GCP experience

IAM

Security policy

Observability

Git

Python

CI/CD

Ansible

US Citizen

Security clearance

GCP admin

CSPM

FedRAMP

Education

BS/BA or HS Diploma/equivalent

Tools

ServiceNow

Job description

Peraton is seeking an experienced Google Cloud Platform Engineer to support a federal government customer. You will onboard and configure the GCP landing zone and provide infrastructure support similar to AWS GovCloud and Azure environments.

Responsibilities include cloud provisioning, automation scripting, monitoring, patching, and incident resolution. Expertise in GCP, IAM, security policy, and observability is required; on-call duties rotate across the team.