Sr. GCP Engineer

$140,250 - $189,750/Yr

Unclassified - Amelia Court House, VA

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Amelia Court House, VA

10,001+ employees

About the position

The Sr. GCP Engineer at General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) will play a crucial role in designing and implementing core Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). This position involves collaborating with a team of engineers to create a multi-tenant environment that supports mission-critical workloads, ensuring seamless integration with partner systems and optimizing cloud usage costs. The role requires a strong understanding of cloud technologies and the ability to deliver comprehensive cloud architecture solutions.

Responsibilities

• Work with a team of DevOps/SecOps Engineers to architect GCP solutions ensuring cohesive integration with partner systems.
• Provide cloud network design, engineering, and administrative support within a Multi-Cloud environment, focusing on GCP.
• Support and advise on application assessment, migration, and modernization.
• Analyze usage patterns to provide recommendations for optimizing cloud usage costs.
• Create assessments for cloud deployment types, cloud tiers, OS, COTS, codebase, database, and application dependencies.
• Design cloud infrastructure, virtual private cloud, virtual private network, relational database services, and computing resources.
• Maintain an understanding of advancing cloud capabilities and propose cost and functional efficiency options.
• Create and maintain a roadmap of customer enhancements based on decisions and directions.
• Deliver end-to-end cloud architecture solutions and expertise in high availability and automated provisioning.
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture teams to determine tools, technologies, and processes.

Requirements

• 10+ years of IT or Cloud experience.
• 3+ years of developing application architectures in GCP.
• 3+ years of experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and infrastructure automation.
• 2+ years of experience in GCP areas such as Networking, Organizational and Policy Management, and Log collection and integration.
• Strong communication skills, both orally and in writing.
• Ability to secure a Public Trust clearance.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Professional Cloud Network Engineer certification from a cloud provider.
• Familiarity with working in state or federal IT systems.

Benefits

• Medical plan options, including Health Savings Accounts.
• Dental plan options.
• Vision plan.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• Flexible work weeks and various paid time off plans, including vacation, sick, personal time, and holidays.
• Paid parental leave, military leave, bereavement leave, and jury duty leave.
• Short and long-term disability benefits.
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel insurance.