Google Cloud Platform Engineer

In this rapidly evolving world, Leidos is always looking for new ways to disrupt the status quo, go to market faster, and optimize customer experiences.  Our company is looking for a Google Cloud Platform Engineer to work with our engineering team to implement, maintain, and optimize our cloud-based systems. This role will work with a variety of IT professionals in our organization to ensure our cloud computing systems meet the needs of our business and customers. The main responsibility of this role is delivering complex solutions and cloud initiatives, as well as deploying and debugging systems. 

Candidate MUST:

Be currently located in the United States for the current three consecutive years

Be US Citizen or US Person (Green Card Holder) with the ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance.

Responsibilities:

• Design and deploy modular cloud-based systems
• Build GCP data-driven solutions for enterprise data warehouse and data lakes
• Ensure efficient data storage and process functions in accordance with security policies.
• Review existing systems and make recommendations for improvement
• Collaborate with clients to understand their business requirements and turn them into technical documentation and deliverables.
• Provide cloud support and recommendations
• Develop and maintain cloud solutions in keeping with our company’s business needs and best practices.
• Identify and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.

Basic Qualifications 

• Active Public Trust Clearance or Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance 
• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 8 years of technical experience. 4 additional years of experience considered in lieu of degree.
• 5+ years of experience with infrastructure as code development.
• 3+ years of direct hands-on experience with the GCP stack
• Experience building multi-tenant IaaS and PaaS cloud solutions
• Experience designing cloud solutions
• Experience using automation scripting languages such as Python, Ansible, or Bash
• Experience with SDLC and continuous delivery tool sets such as GitLab CI, JIRA, or comparable tools
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills

Required Certification 

• Google Cloud Professional Certification

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Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.