Provide a short description of the Position: The position is in support (operational, enhancements, debugging) of the UISIm project, a multi-year program effort to redesign, implement, and test business process improvements for the Department of Labor’s customers, partners and internal staff. UISIm replaces the + year old Unemployment Insurance (UI) legacy computer systems and manual procedures with a new and improved integrated computer system.

Provide a list of the day to day tasks to be performed by the Selected Candidate: 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 ( 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 ( 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.