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Greetings From Skysoft!

Role: Cloud Engineer

Location: Albany, NY (50% onsite required)

Contract Length: 30 Months

Roles and Responsibilities

• 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.

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.

7+Years 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.

7+Years 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.

6+ Years of experience using CI/CD pipeline technologies

6+ Years of experience using GitHub repository

2+of experience using Prisma Cloud, Tenable, OS Patching/upgrading

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