Cloud Engineer

Defense Logistics Agency • Battle Creek, MI

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About The Position

Designs, engineers, configures, tests, deploys, and sustains enterprise cloud platform environments in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). These environments support mission systems, data platforms, artificial intelligence solutions, analytics workloads, and APIs. The position performs technical work to create foundational cloud environments and organizational components, including organization hierarchy design, project structures, shared platform services, baseline configurations, and approved deployment patterns. It builds and maintains GCP landing zones and shared platform services to support secure onboarding of workloads into cloud environments, along with reusable platform templates, infrastructure modules, deployment standards, and baseline configurations used across multiple efforts. The role also produces and maintains engineering artifacts needed for enterprise cloud platform operation, such as architecture diagrams, configuration baselines, dependency records, operational standards, and sustainment documentation. It validates and tests platform builds and environment changes to ensure they function correctly and support intended workloads.

This federal position is classified as IT Specialist (SYSADMIN), GS-14. It requires U.S. citizenship and a favorable suitability or fitness determination. The position has a set schedule, is FLSA-exempt, and requires Non-Critical Sensitive status with Secret Access. Selectees may be required to undergo drug testing. The position may be filled at any of the listed locations: Battle Creek, Michigan; Columbus and Dayton, Ohio; Fort Belvoir, Virginia; New Cumberland and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Ogden, Utah; or Richmond, Virginia.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship.
• One year of specialized experience directly related to the position, including experience equivalent to the GS-13 level for qualification at GS-14.
• Experience developing and applying infrastructure patterns for development, test, staging, and production environments to enable repeatable, governable, and supportable cloud deployments.
• Experience designing and configuring cloud compute, storage, networking, and supporting platform services for applications, APIs, data solutions, and AI/ML workloads.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving platform engineering issues, including misconfigured projects, policy conflicts, permission errors, networking or routing failures, provisioning failures, service enablement problems, broken inherited controls, DNS failures, environment drift, performance bottlenecks, storage access failures, and service integration issues.
• Meet applicable eligibility requirements, including time-in-grade for General Schedule positions, time-after-competitive appointment, minimum qualifications, and other regulatory requirements by the announcement closing or cut-off date.
• Education may not substitute for specialized experience at this grade level.
• Males born after December 31, 1959, must be registered for or exempt from Selective Service.
• Obtain a favorable suitability or fitness determination; an unfavorably adjudicated background check is grounds for removal.
• Have a REAL ID or other acceptable identification documents to access certain federal facilities.
• Comply with DLA drug-free workplace requirements, including drug testing when selected for a testing-designated position.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, configure, test, deploy, and sustain enterprise GCP cloud platform environments supporting mission systems, data platforms, AI solutions, analytics workloads, and APIs.
• Create foundational cloud environments and organizational components, including organization hierarchies, project structures, shared platform services, baseline configurations, and approved deployment patterns.
• Build and maintain GCP landing zones and shared platform services that support secure workload onboarding.
• Build and maintain reusable platform templates, infrastructure modules, deployment standards, and baseline configurations for use across multiple efforts.
• Produce and maintain engineering artifacts, including architecture diagrams, configuration baselines, dependency records, operational standards, and sustainment documentation.
• Validate and test platform builds and environment changes to ensure proper function and support for intended workloads.
• Develop and apply infrastructure patterns for development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Design and configure cloud compute, storage, networking, and supporting platform services for hosted applications, APIs, data solutions, and AI/ML workloads.
• Diagnose and resolve cloud platform engineering issues affecting hosted workloads or shared cloud services.

Benefits

• Federal employees and their families have access to a range of benefits; specific benefits depend on position type and should be confirmed with the hiring agency.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed