Job Title: Cloud Engineer - Expert
Task ID: HBITS-08-14968
Position Duration: 30 Months
Client: State of NY
Agency: Department of Labor
Interview : In-Person

Please call (703) 466-0951 | (571) 351-1868 | (703) 348-3018 or email at [email protected]

Description
Activities include, but are not limited to:

• 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 CloudSQL 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.

Mandatory Qualifications 1 84 months 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. 2 84 months 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.
3 36 Months of experience using CI/CD pipeline technologies 4 36 Months of experience using GitHub repository 5 24 Months of experience using Prisma Cloud, Tenable, OS Patching/upgrading Required Documentation • Resume
• Copy of Candidate Identification
(i.e., Driver's License/Green Card/Visa and Passport if applicable)
• Any documents referenced in the above Requested Qualifications
(i.e., professional certifications, degrees, etc.)
i-Link Solutions requires a Bachelor's Degree or its equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems or a closely related field of study for all positions.