Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SES Corporation is supporting the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and has an opening for a Google Cloud Platform Engineer. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing scalable cloud-native solutions and ensuring best practices across architecture, development, deployment, and security.
Responsibilities
- Design scalable, resilient, and secure cloud solutions for Google environment
- Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and assess their potential impact on organizational goals
- Drive adoption of DevOps practices, infrastructure as code, and automation frameworks
- Optimize application performance and reliability in cloud environments
- Design secure cloud architectures implementing zero-trust principles and defense-in-depth strategies
- Ensure compliance with industry standards (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, etc.) and regulatory requirements
- Implement identity and access management solutions and security monitoring frameworks
- Facilitate customer onboarding and implement a consistent pathway to cloud adoption
- Assess legacy systems and design modernization strategies including containerization and microservices
- Develop migration methodologies and ensure minimal organizational disruption during transitions
- Manage and optimize cloud environments, networking, VPNs, IaaS, PaaS, and SQL systems
- Implement and maintain Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Jira, Confluence, Artifactory, and Guacamole to support DevSecOps practices
- Containerize applications to enhance scalability and deployment efficiency
- Support the design and development of Shared Services
- Configure and troubleshoot cloud, virtual, and physical hardware and software systems
- Establish and maintain SQL and NoSQL databases, ensuring their performance and reliability
- Prepare detailed technical documentation to support development and operational processes
- Conduct security assessments and remediate vulnerabilities in cloud environments
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including development, operations, security, and product management
- Create reference architectures, design patterns, and technical standards for cloud implementations
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree and 4+ years or more of experience; additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of degree
- Must have an active Secret clearance
- 1 or more cloud certifications
- US citizenship required
- Certifications: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT-2)
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Experience onboarding customer log-data from cloud platforms to on-premises or cloud-based analysis environments such as Elastic or Splunk
- Cloud architecture and design experience
- Experience with USAF Cloud One or Platform 1
- Experience with Zero Trust Architecture
- Excellent customer service skills, with experience working in a customer-facing position
- Strong understanding Active Directory, Azure AD, SAML and the standards, procedures, and processes
- Experience with Ansible, AWS console, Elastic, AWS, Azure, Jira, Confluence, Git, Bitbucket and various cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings
- Administration experience with cloud-based applications (MS O365, SharePoint, Azure AD, AWS)
- Experience administering Windows Server, and related services
- Cloud certifications in Google clouds
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- AD&D
- STD
- LTD
- Company paid Life Insurance
- 401k with employer contribution
- Paid Time Off
- Pet Insurance
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