HI,
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
