HBITS: HBITS-08-14968
Expert, Cloud Engineer
30 month contract
Interview: In-person
Work model: 50% telecommuting, 50% Office per week
--- Project Description ---
Department of Labor s (DOL s) UISIm (Unemployment Insurance Service Improvement) project.
The position is in support (operational, enhancements, debugging) of the UISIm project, a multi-
year program effort to redesign, implement, and test business process improvements for the
Department of Labor s customers, partners and internal staff. UISIm replaces the 40+ year old
Unemployment Insurance (UI) legacy computer systems and manual procedures with a new and
improved integrated computer system.
--- Day-to-Day Tasks ---
1. Design, develop, and maintain cloud-based systems, ensuring efficient data storage and
adherence to security policies.
2. Building and deploying cloud-native applications using cloud services like cloud build, cloud
deploy.
3. Build and manage the GCP foundation platform to enable application deployments
4. Engineer solutions on GCP foundation platform using Infrastructure As Code methods using
Terraform
5. Integrate, configure, deploy and manage centrally provided common cloud services (e.g. IAM,
networking, logging, Operating systems, Containers.)
6. Consume centrally agreed base Hardened OS (Linux and Windows)
7. Configure backup of VMs and CloudSQL and restore.
8. Ensure compliance with centrally defined Security
9. Ensure compliancy with Operational risk standards (E.g. Network, Firewall, OS, Logging,
Monitoring, Availability, Resiliency)
10. Build and support continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD) and continuous testing
activities
11. Engineering activities to implement patches provided centrally
12. Update support and operational documentation as required
13. Ensure good Change management practice is implemented as specified by central standards.
14. Mentor state staff developers in cloud technologies.
15. Create and review infrastructure/DevOps architecture diagrams.
16. Analyzing cloud usage and optimizing resource allocation to control cloud expenses.
17. Monitoring cloud systems for performance issues, identifying potential problems, and
troubleshooting technical incidents.
18. Diagnose technical issues, analyze logs, and effectively troubleshoot complex cloud problems.
19. Working closely with development teams, system administrators, and business stakeholders to
translate requirements into cloud solutions.
--- Required Qualifications ---
" 36 Months of experience using CI/CD pipeline technologies
" 36 Months of experience using GitHub repository
" 24 Months of experience using Prisma Cloud, Tenable, OS Patching/upgrading
" 84 months of experience designing, developing, deploying, monitoring, and
maintaining cloud-based systems in GCP in accordance with security, performance,
availability, and cost-management requirements, including cloud-native application
deployment, resource optimization, system monitoring, log analysis, incident
diagnosis and troubleshooting, and use of GCP Cloud Build and Cloud Deploy.
" 84 months of experience implementing, automating, and administering GCP cloud
infrastructure, including Infrastructure as Code using Terraform; automation using
Python or PowerShell; GKE cluster, pod, and service administration; Linux and
Windows server administration; and configuration and administration of GCP
services including Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, VPC/XPN, Cloud SQL, Redis,
Secret Manager, CDN, load balancing, Cloud Armor, Logging, Monitoring, Alerting,
and Pub/Sub.
MVP Consulting Plus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities during the application process.