Cloud Engineer (Google Cloud Platform)

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Description Of Job

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Do you want to make our beautiful state even better? At OIT, we provide secure digital services that put Coloradans first. We have an opportunity for someone looking to implement the designs and standards provided by our Cloud Architects and established by the Cloud Operations team as a whole. You will deploy, maintain, and update cloud platform infrastructure and services using repeatable templates/tools/processes, with a primary focus on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), within a DevSecOps structured team and methodology.

Your responsibilities will include provisioning, maintaining, and updating cloud platform infrastructure and services, as well as associated monitoring and reporting, to achieve the project objectives, while serving as the primary infrastructure point of contact on such projects. If using your creativity and innovation in the development and delivery of cloud based solutions is what you want to do, apply today for the chance to also put your passion into the state you love.

Some Of The Day To Day Duties Include

Participating in the planning, implementation, and growth of the Cloud infrastructure.

Installing, configuring, automating, and monitoring various Cloud Services (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS).

Working closely with the architects to recommend and design complete solutions that effectively reflect the business needs, security, and service level requirements.

Supporting production issues and troubleshooting the Google Cloud platform and services.

Creating, implementing, and documenting a DevSecOps tool stack to build.

Inspecting, deploying, testing, and promoting new or updated features, taking into account long-term road map and architecture goals.

Setting up, configuring, documenting, and maintaining a continuous integration environment.

Mentoring less experienced technical staff, assisting in the build out of internal Cloud expertise.

Proactively meet standards for information security and compliance.

Assist in-house teams with application/platform integration issues such as security/permissions, Service configuration, and network issues (name resolution, firewall port flows, and load balancing).

Identify and resolve infrastructure issues that impact the application’s and hosting platform's functionality.

Act as a Subject Matter Expert for internal infrastructure teams to support the adoption of GCP services and DevOps Best practices.

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions Of Employment & Appeal Rights

A wide salary range is posted for this position and any job offer is based upon a salary analysis to comply with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. The salary analysis considers relevant experience, education, certifications, and state seniority as compared to others doing substantially similar work. While all offers are compliant with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, there is no guarantee an offer will be at the top of the posted range based on the salary analysis.

Minimum Qualifications

This is a skills-based job announcement. The required minimum qualifications and/or education (if substituting for the proven experience, knowledge, and skills), are as follows:

A minimum of five (5) years of experience as a DevOps/System/Network Engineer automating infrastructure, deployment, network, configuration, or testing processes or comparable. This must include hands-on GCP experience.

Experience developing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions with Terraform, allowing for the automated deployment of cloud based services preferably with the Google cloud platform.

Hands-on experience with Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Reproducibility, Traceability, Concurrent Development strategies.

Knowledge of Linux or Windows systems administration.

A working knowledge of DNS, firewalls, and load balancing solutions is required.

A working knowledge of VPC networking to include IP-based routing, subnets, and CIDR ranges.

Proficiency in Bash scripting for task automation and workflow optimization

Substitutions

Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.

Training or Certification related to the work assigned to the position will be assigned credit towards substitution for experience and/or education, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.

If the minimum qualifications include a degree requirement, additional appropriate paid or unpaid experience will substitute for the required education on a year-for-year basis.

Preferred Qualifications

Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE)

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect Certification (PCA)

Git experience

Cloud platform (GCP) infrastructure management experience

Experience working in a consulting capacity, interacting directly with clients

Working knowledge of Active Directory

Conditions Of Employment

OIT employees must comply with any screening procedures in place at state entity locations where they might be required to perform work.

A pre-employment background check will be conducted as part of the selection process.

Positions supporting some agencies such as the Department of Corrections and the Department of Public Safety will also require a pre-employment drug test.

This position may require travel within the specified geographic area, and to locations across the state as needed.

Supplemental Information

If this posting indicates “remote from anywhere in CO” in the title, periodic reporting to the primary state work location designated for the position is required. All remote work must be performed in Colorado.

While candidates from out of state will be considered for this role, the candidate selected for the position must relocate and reside in Colorado on the first day of their new position. A reasonable timeframe for relocation will be established on an individual basis, while considering business needs, and determining a start date.

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The Governor's Office of Information Technology is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to our ADA Coordinator at OIT_HR@state.co.us or call (303) 764-7900.

This posting may be used to fill multiple vacancies based upon business need.

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