Senior Cloud Engineer
Summary
Senior Cloud Engineer at Dark Wolf Solutions designing, building, and managing Google Cloud Platform solutions for customers, largely in the US public sector. Day-to-day spans IaC with Terraform, GCP services (Compute Engine, GKE, BigQuery, Cloud SQL), cloud security tooling, and CI/CD; requires US citizenship and an active Secret clearance.
Dar Wolf is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to join our team. Dark Wolf’s Google Cloud Engineers are responsible for designing, implementing, and managing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) solutions for our customers. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of GCP services and technologies, as well as experience in designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and secure cloud solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Drive and implement technology solutions on Google Cloud
- Work with customers, partners, and internal project team members to understand customer business requirements and translate into actionable engineering tasks
- Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform
- Configure and manage GCP services such as Compute Engine, App Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, DataFlow, and BigQuery
- Architect and implement security best practices for GCP solutions using products such as Assured Workloads, Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP), Workload Identity Federation (WIF), Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and Security Command Center
- Stay up-to-date on the latest GCP services and technologies and their applicability to the Public Sector space
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
- 8+ years of experience in cloud computing
- 3+ years of experience with GCP
- 5+ years of experience with one or more programming languages (e.g. Python)
- Required Certifications: Sec+ and Google Professional Cloud Architect
- Strong understanding of Google Cloud services and technologies
- Experience leading technical teams including delegating tasks, reviewing designs and completed tasks by team members, and coaching junior team members
- Experience designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and secure cloud solutions
- Experience developing technical architecture documents, driving design decisions, developing documentation artifacts, and presenting technical solutions to clients and executive level leaders
- Experience with infrastructure automation using IaC tools such as Terraform
- Strong understanding of DevOps practices and experience implementing CI/CD in cloud environments
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with the broader team as well as independently
- At least one Google Cloud Professional Certification
- US Citizenship and active Secret clearance
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working within Agile teams
- Experience working with Google Cloud compliance products such as Security Command Center and Assured Workloads
- Experience ingesting, curating, and transforming raw data into clean, structured formats for data analysis
- Experience working with customers in the U.S. Public Sector
- Experience with DoD/DISA cybersecurity policies
This role is primarily remote but the candidate must be located within a commutable distance to a Dark Wolf Office. The compensation for this role is estimated to be between $150,000-$170,000, commensurate on experience.
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