Job description
Cloud Engineer - GCP
This role is a member of the Google Cloud Engineering team and will be dedicated to implementing and supporting base systems and end-user solutions in Google Cloud Platform. The role will work directly with infrastructure teams and potentially face off with portfolio managers, application developers, quantitative analysts, data scientists and infrastructure teams by functioning as both a solutions architect, helping them implement their own solutions in Google Cloud Platform, and as a professional services engineer, implementing solutions for them in Google Cloud Platform.
This is a hands-on developer role and candidates ideally have had experience deploying and supporting their own production ready code in cloud environments as well as automating the build and management of a broad range of cloud infrastructure in cloud environments, preferably in Python. Candidates should be familiar with developing unit and functional tests, have experience designing and implementing CI/CD tools with infrastructure as code pipelines, have knowledge of Linux systems administration, containerization, networking, security, automated configuration and state management, cross system orchestration, configuration management, logging, metrics, monitoring, and alerting.
Principal Responsibilities
- Architect, develop and maintain internal cloud platform components, frameworks and offerings
- Architect, develop and maintain solutions for customers in Google Cloud
- Help customers architect, develop and maintain their own solutions in Google Cloud
- Implement CI/CD pipelines which include application tests, security tests, and gates
- Implement availability, security, performance monitoring and alerting of cloud solutions
- Automate data resiliency and replication
- Manage multiple environments and promote code between them
- Automate systems configuration and orchestration using tools, such as Chef, Ansible, or Salt
- Automate creation of machine images and containers
Required Qualifications/Skills
- Experience designing and supporting production cloud environments
- Experience consulting with customers to develop public cloud solutions
- Experience developing collaboratively, including infrastructure as code, preferably in python
- Systems engineering knowledge, including understanding of Linux, security, and networking
- Cloud templating tools such as terraform
- Experience with building, monitoring, and alerting on logs and metrics
- Cloud Networking including connectivity, routing, DNS, VPCs, proxies, and load balancers
- Cloud Security including IAM, Certificate Management, and Key management
- Excellent written and verbal communications
- Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills
- Self-starter able to execute independently, on a deadline, and under pressure
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