Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Engineer
Scottsdale, AZ (onsite)
6+ Months Project
Responsibilities
- Build and manage Google Cloud infrastructure services and applications using automation.
- Build, deploy, and manage highly available and scalable cloud services such as GCP Cloud Functions, Google Kubernetes Engine, Composer, AirFlow DAG, BigQuery, CloudSQL, IAM, Looker, GCS, Firebase, etc.
- Ensure continuous monitoring of cloud resources, respond to incidents and outages adhering to SLAs, automate operational tasks, manage backups, disaster recovery plans, and ensure high availability.
- Manage, maintain, and monitor different infrastructure components including servers, networks, and applications.
- Provide hands-on technical expertise during service-impacting events.
- Collaborate with other engineers on code reviews, internal infrastructure improvements, and process enhancements, and measure, tune, and optimize system performance.
- Adhere to security and regulatory best practices involving cloud deployments, implement recommendations from security tools such as MS Defender, CrowdStrike, Wiz, Snyk, etc.
- Troubleshoot and remediate issues impacting the operation of the overall infrastructure.
- Automate routine systems tasks and processes using PowerShell or similar tools.
- Maintain security, backup, and redundancy of the enterprise environment.
- Build and maintain playbooks and other supporting documentation.
- Work with team members to perform regular system audits and security reviews.
- : Manage projects/processes, working independently with limited supervision.
- Mentor and train junior engineers.
- Participate in periodic 24x7 on-call duties.
Qualifications
- At least 5 years of experience in building, managing, and sustaining Google Cloud Platform (GCP) applications.
- Experience within the financial industry and/or a highly regulated technology organization.
- Expertise in building cloud services components using IaC.
- Expertise in building, deploying, and managing cloud services such as GCP Cloud Functions, Google Kubernetes Engine, Composer, AirFlow DAG, BigQuery, CloudSQL, IAM, Looker, GCS, Firebase, etc., with a focus on high availability and scalability.
- Expertise in setting up cloud monitoring and management tools, experience with incident response, troubleshooting, scripting, and automation.
- Experienced in implementing information security best practices using security tools such as MS Defender, CrowdStrike, Wiz, Snyk, etc. Focus on vulnerability management with strict SLA compliance.
- Experience with observability/monitoring technologies like Splunk, CloudWatch, Azure Monitoring, etc.
- Strong team or technical leadership experience preferred.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Adaptable, innovative, and stays current in cloud technologies.
- Candidates with relevant certifications in Google Cloud, Kubernetes Administrator, etc., are preferred.
Skills:
- GCP
- Splunk/Observability or CloudWatch
Metasys Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, veteran or disability status.