Sr. GCP Engineer

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Suitability:

Public Trust/Other Required:

Other

Job Family:

Cloud

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Azure Active Directory (AD), Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Technology, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure IaaS

Certifications:

Experience:

10 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) a leading provider of systems engineering, integration, IT service operations and support solutions, is seeking talented professionals to deliver valuable services and solutions to our customers.  GDIT has a great team consisting of experienced and knowledgeable managers who lead and support the career development objectives of our employees.  Our employees consider the company to be a solid partner in their career, with an abundance of opportunities for advancement. GDIT is seeking a Sr. GCP Engineer to help the USPTO design its core GCP infrastructure. You will be working with a team of engineers to design a multi-tenant environment in GCP supporting several mission-critical USPTO workloads.

Responsibilities:

• Work with a team of DevOps/SecOps Engineers to architect GCP solutions with the responsibility to ensure the customer maintains an overall cohesive integration with itself, partner systems, and solutions.

• Provide cloud network design, engineering and administrative support of both physical and virtual networking assets within a Multi-Cloud environment, with primary focus on GCP

• Support and advise on application assessment, migration and modernization

• Provide recommendations to optimize Cloud usage costs by analyzing usage patterns and trends while providing recommendations for consolidating instance types based on demand across all billing accounts.

• Create assessments that include cloud deployment type (public/hybrid), cloud tier (AWS, Azure, and Google), OS, COTS, codebase, database, cloud services, application dependencies, disaster resilience requirements.

• Design cloud infrastructure, virtual private cloud, virtual private network, relational database services, auto scaling, and computing resources to meet customers’ requirements.

• Maintain an understanding of advancing cloud capabilities, IT and business needs, while identifying and proposing cost and functional efficiency options for the customer’s collaborative decisions and actions.

• Create and maintain a roadmap of customer enhancements according to the customer’s decisions and directions.

• Deliver end-to-end cloud architecture solutions

• Provide expertise in high availability, contingency planning, and automated provisioning.

• Collaborate with enterprise architecture team and other stakeholders to determine enterprise tools, technologies and processes.

Key Requirements:

• U. S. Citizen and/or Green Card holder

• Strong communication skills

• 10+ years IT or Cloud experience

• 3+ years of developing application architectures in GCP

• 3+ years Terraform or other IaC and infrastructure automation

• 2+ years experience in the following GCP areas

• Networking, Organizational and Policy Management, Log collection and integration

• Ability to secure a Public Trust clearance

• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, and demonstrated experience working with senior level stakeholders and development teams

• Strong communication skills, both orally and in writing to convey cloud technologies and solutions to all levels of customer personnel

• Expertise in developing, maintaining and contributing to technical and process documentation.

Preferred

• Professional Cloud Network Engineer from cloud provider

• Familiar with working in state or federal IT systems.

The likely salary range for this position is $140,250 - $189,750. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%