Client: State Of New York - Department of Financial Services
Job Title: Cloud Engineer
Duration: 30 Months
Location: New York City, NY 10004
Hours Per Week: 37.5 Hours
Interview Type: Onsite/Webcam
Job Code: HBITS-07-14828
Scope of Project:
The Senior Platform Engineer is a technical contributor on the newly established DFS Platform Services team. This role owns significant portions of the platform build including CI/CD pipelines, GCP infrastructure, GKE cluster operations, and the observability stack. The Senior Platform Engineer works within standards set by the Lead Platform Engineer and provides day-to- day technical guidance and mentorship to mid-level engineers on the team.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, or equivalent.
- Author, review, and maintain Terraform code for GCP infrastructure provisioning.
- Support GKE cluster build-out, workload onboarding, and cluster operations.
- Own assigned areas of the observability stack including Splunk integration, monitoring, and alerting.
- Manage build artifact storage and versioning using GCP Artifact Registry.Maintain and improve existing Salesforce/GearSet deployment pipelines.
- Maintain SonarQube and GitHub integration for static and dynamic code analysis.
- Manage GCP resources including compute, networking, IAM, and secrets management.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, code reviews, and sprint delivery.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to mid-level Platform Engineers.
- Contribute to team documentation and participate in on-call rotation.
Required Skills:
- 84 months of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure, including designing and operating CI/CD pipelines in production.
- 60 months of experience with GCP, including Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, Secret Manager, VPC networking, and IAM.
- 60 months of experience with Terraform, including module development, remote state management, and infrastructure migration.
- 60 months of experience with GitHub and Git workflows, including branching strategies, pull requests, and webhook integrations.
- 48 months of experience with static and dynamic code analysis, including SonarQube (SAST) and OWASP ZAP or equivalent (DAST) within CI/CD pipelines.
- 48 months of experience with Splunk for observability, including log forwarding, pipeline integration, and dashboards.
- 24 months of experience maintaining Salesforce deployment pipelines using GearSet or equivalent.
- 24 months of experience providing technical mentorship to mid-level engineers.
- Bachelor’s Degree.
- Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer, Terraform Associate (HashiCorp), or CKA/CKAD (Kubernetes).
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