Google Cloud Engineer

Company: RESOURCE1
Location: Newark
Posted on: March 19, 2023

Job Description:

Our client is seeking a Google Cloud Engineer for a 3month contract with a high probability of extension.
Job Responsibilities:
--- Focus on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure, and eliminating work through automation.
--- Influence application and security architecture and design across multi and hybrid cloud platforms.
--- Peer-reviewing infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
--- Partnering with application and infrastructure teams to develop reusable cloud patterns.
--- Deployment and troubleshooting of infrastructure code.
--- Conducting post-incident reviews and root cause analysis and building monitoring and automation to prevent future incidents.
--- Responsible for creating, adapting, and maintaining system configurations for applications which are running on cloud platforms
--- Simplify the process of providing instances of organization's products by leveraging open-source solutions and automation pipelines.
--- Identify opportunities to build self-service capabilities and automate infrastructure and application deployments.
--- Participate in an on-call rotation for major incident response and application deployments.

Technical Qualifications:
--- Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks.
--- A systematic problem-solving approach coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive.
--- Ability to quickly pickup and understand where newly released cloud services would be appropriate for business applications.
--- Experience with infrastructure automation tools such Terraform.
--- Experience using Git for source control management.
--- Ability to proficiently write code in Python and terraform.
--- Understanding of foundational GCP services and SaaS API such as VPCs, Google Maps, Google Compute Engine, etc
--- In-depth knowledge of security and IAM within Google, including the management and operation of Google Cloud Identify, Google Organization Policies, and Google Organization/Folder/Projects.
--- Familiarity with one or more log and event aggregation and monitoring systems such as Splunk, Goole BigQuery, or similar.

Qualifications:
--- 3 years+ experience in Google Cloud (GCP)
--- Experience in working in an Agile/Scrum-focused organization.
--- Strong verbal and written communication skills; comfortable with translating technical problems to non-technical audiences.
--- MS/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications:
--- One or more Associate or Professional-level GCP certificates.

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