Senior Cloud Engineer - GCP & OCI | Terraform & IAM

TechSur Solutions; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

TechSur Solutions in the DC metro area seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer with deep GCP and OCI expertise. You will split time evenly between platforms, establishing landing zones, IAM federation, and Terraform modules, while integrating with monitoring and security tooling.

You\'ll design high-availability, DR, and disaster recovery, and work across production environments with a strong focus on security controls (NIST). A 9+ year track record in cloud deployments is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 9+ years of experience deploying and configuring cloud environments.
• Hands-on production experience with both Google Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Production experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform on GCP and OCI.
• Experience with cloud network design, including private connectivity (Cloud Interconnect, FastConnect, or IPsec VPN), routing, and DNS.
• Experience implementing IAM and single sign-on federation (SAML 2.0/OIDC).
• Working knowledge of NIST SP 800-53 security controls in a federal environment.
• Ability to obtain and maintain the background investigation required by the federal customer.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy GCP landing zones: resource hierarchy, Shared VPC, VPN/Interconnect, DNS.
• Design and deploy OCI landing zones: tenancy, compartments, VCN, DRG, DNS.
• Build and maintain Terraform modules and GitOps workflows for multiple environments on both platforms.
• Configure IAM and federation with the customer's identity provider (SAML 2.0/OIDC).
• Enforce guardrails with security controls on both GCP and OCI.
• Apply enterprise tagging and cost analysis practices for asset management.
• Monitor environments with cloud monitoring tools integrated with third-party platforms.
• Perform patching, maintenance, capacity planning, and 24/7 operations support.
• Design and test high availability, backup, and disaster recovery on both platforms.
• Write runbooks and SOPs and transfer knowledge to customer staff.

Skills

GCP/OCI experience

Terraform proficiency

IAM federation

Security compliance (NIST)

Disaster recovery planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

GitOps workflows

Datadog

Splunk

ServiceNow

Job description

TechSur Solutions in the DC metro area seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer with deep GCP and OCI expertise. You will split time evenly between platforms, establishing landing zones, IAM federation, and Terraform modules, while integrating with monitoring and security tooling.

You\'ll design high-availability, DR, and disaster recovery, and work across production environments with a strong focus on security controls (NIST). A 9+ year track record in cloud deployments is required.