Contract role

Hybrid Role: 50 Remote / 50% Onsite in Albany, NY

Length: 30 Months

Responsibilities:

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.

Requirements:

• 7+ years: Candidate is able to provide guidance to large teams and/or has extensive industry experience and is considered at the top of his/her field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in designing, developing, and maintaining cloud systems ensuring best practices, and security policies.
• Design, develop, and maintain cloud-based systems in GCP, AWS, or Azure (GCP preference), ensuring efficient data storage and adherence to security policies.
• Building and deploying cloud-native applications using cloud services like cloud build, cloud deploy.
• Analyzing cloud usage and optimizing resource allocation to control cloud expenses.
• Monitoring cloud systems for performance issues, identifying potential problems, and troubleshooting technical incidents.
• Working with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) using GCP Cloud Build & Deploy
• Diagnosing technical issues, analyze logs, and effectively troubleshoot complex cloud problems.

• 5+ years of experience developing and maintaining cloud systems.
• Terraform (Infrastructure as a code) to create VMs and streamline cloud deployments.
• Scripting languages like Python or PowerShell for automation and system management.
• Cloud service provider experience in GCP- infrastructure build and configurations of a variety of services including Compute, Storage/Buckets, SDN (VPC and XPN), CloudSQL, Redis, Secret Manager, CDN, HTTPS/TCP Load balancer, Cloud Armor, Logging, Monitoring, Alert, Pub/sub.
• Experience of Linux administration and scripting preferably Red Hat
• Experience in managing GKE cluster and deployment of PoDs & services
• Server administration (Linux & Windows)
• 3+ years of experience using CI/CD pipeline technologies.
• 3+ years of experience using GitHub repository.
• 2+ years of experience in Prisma Cloud, Tenable, OS Patching/upgrading..