About the role

What will you do at SMART TECH SKILLS LLC?

Benefits

Competitive salary

Location

Remote (Candidates must reside locally within the State of Colorado)

Experience Level

Senior Level (5 or more years of experience)

Role Overview

The GCP Cloud Engineer accelerates project delivery by implementing enterprise-grade cloud designs and automation standards established by the Cloud Architecture and Operations teams. Operating within a DevOps methodology, this role serves as the primary infrastructure lead on cloud migration and modernization projects—provisioning application hosting environments, building robust monitoring, and ensuring high availability.

Beyond deployment, this engineer authors, socializes, and governs the standards for how the organization consumes cloud services. Due to the nature of this public sector technology unit, the selected candidate must successfully pass comprehensive background checks, including State, Federal, and Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) clearances.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure as Code & Automation
• Deploy and manage GCP infrastructure natively as code (IaC) utilizing Terraform integrated into automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Build, maintain, and optimize automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to streamline environment provisioning.
• Embed security, identity, governance, and network security policies directly into automated, reusable infrastructure templates.
Cloud Operations & Infrastructure Support
• Configure and deploy highly available Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), Shared VPCs, and cloud compute instances across all hosted enterprise workloads.
• Design and implement comprehensive platform observability, including monitoring, logging, metrics, and operational health reporting.
• Manage cloud platform users, organizations, groups, and access controls in strict alignment with enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM) standards.
Standardization, Strategy, & Support
• Define, document, and govern Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the secure consumption of GCP IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings.
• Analyze emerging GCP features for platform adoption and advocate cloud capabilities to internal teams to drive active migrations.
• Participate in a rotating after-hours on-call schedule to provide Tier-2 engineering support, system monitoring, and rapid incident response for production environments.
Required Qualifications
• 5 or more years of infrastructure development experience with hands-on experience utilizing GCP foundation services (compute, network, storage, administration, and security).
• 5 or more years of hands-on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience utilizing Terraform or similar configuration tools.
• Demonstrated domain expertise across Windows and Linux IaaS, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR), networking, storage, containers, and open-source software (OSS).
• Proven experience delivering large-scale infrastructure deployments within complex, enterprise-wide environments.
• Hands-on experience building, testing, and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong scripting capabilities utilizing Bash, Python, YAML, and PowerShell.
• Ability to successfully pass comprehensive background checks, including State, Federal, and Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) clearances.

Preferred Qualifications

• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification.
• Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer certification.
• Hands-on experience deploying infrastructure via Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar enterprise CI/CD platforms.
Core Skills & Attributes
• Excellent technical aptitude to adapt quickly to rapidly changing cloud trends and technologies.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills to diagnose and resolve complex incidents within cloud-based systems.
• Collaborative team player with excellent communication skills to advocate cloud capabilities and establish enterprise SOPs.
• Continuous-improvement champion who proactively drives lifecycle management and manages vendor interactions.
This is a remote position.

Which skills does this role require?

GCPTerraformInfrastructure as CodePythonBashPowerShellYAMLVPCIAMLinuxWindowsContainersObservabilityBCDRCloud MigrationGoogle Cloud PlatformOSSCJISSOPIaaSPaaSSaaSPublic SectorMachine Learning

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