Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Cloud Engineer

Latitude IT Solutions•Melbourne, FL

1d•Remote

About The Position

Latitude is a growing Service-Disabled Veteran Owned (SDVOSB) Company within the Federal Sector, with experience working with various federal clients across multiple agencies. We foster a remote work-from-home culture to ensure a healthy work-to-life balance, believing in automating mundane tasks and investing in employee career growth. We strive for innovation, aiming to develop solutions that break through technological barriers in the government sector.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or 10+ years equivalent technical experience.
6+ years setting up, configuring, and using GCP cloud operational tools to ensure service level agreements and performance targets are met, and continued compliance with policies, standards, and guidelines.
Experience with monitoring of OS/application-level metrics and related visualizations (GCP Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Grafana, or similar).
4+ years of experience in Bash shell, PowerShell, as well as Java or Python.
Strong analytical skills with a logical mindset and problem-solving approach.
Effective communication skills both orally and written with various audiences.
Experience and proven ability to work remotely.
Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance or higher — required.
US Citizenship required (federal contract requirement).

Nice To Haves

Google Professional Cloud Architect certification.
Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification.
Google Associate Cloud Engineer certification.
ITIL certification or ITIL knowledge.
Department of Veterans Affairs experience.
Public Trust or higher clearance.

Responsibilities

Support federal clients in Cloud Operations to Enhance, Optimize, and Maintain their Computing Capabilities across their Technical Landscape.
Work with System Administrators when Supporting Application Teams.
Work with Project Teams to Operate and Maintain (O&M) Applications hosted on GCP (including FedRAMP-authorized GCP GovCloud environments).
Utilize Automation Tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Deployment Manager, or similar IaC tooling.
Assist with Upgrading, Installing, and Configuring monitoring solutions (GCP Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Grafana, or similar) for Windows and Linux servers.
Create and maintain gold images and automation scripts.
Assist with reporting on current infrastructure status.
Document each application's production operations processes via a Production Operations Manual (POM).