Provide a short description of the Position:
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.
Provide a list of the day-to-day tasks to be performed by the Selected Candidate:
Activities include, but are not limited to:
- Design, develop, and maintain cloud-based systems, ensuring efficient data storage and adherence to security policies.
- Building and deploying cloud-native applications using cloud services like cloud build, cloud deploy. Build and manage the GCP foundation platform to enable application deployments
- Engineer solutions on GCP foundation platform using Infrastructure As Code methods using Terraform
- Integrate, configure, deploy and manage centrally provided common cloud services (e.g. IAM, networking, logging, Operating systems, Containers.)
- Consume centrally agreed base Hardened OS (Linux and Windows)
- Configure backup of VMs and CloudSQL and restore.
- Ensure compliance with centrally defined Security
- Ensure compliancy with Operational risk standards (E.g. Network, Firewall, OS, Logging, Monitoring, Availability, Resiliency)
- Build and support continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD) and continuous testing activities
- Engineering activities to implement patches provided centrally
- Update support and operational documentation as required
- Ensure good Change management practice is implemented as specified by central standards.
- Mentor state staff developers in cloud technologies.
- Create and review infrastructure/DevOps architecture diagrams.
- Analyzing cloud usage and optimizing resource allocation to control cloud expenses.
- Monitoring cloud systems for performance issues, identifying potential problems, and troubleshooting technical incidents.
- Diagnose technical issues, analyze logs, and effectively troubleshoot complex cloud problems.
- Working closely with development teams, system administrators, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into cloud solutions.
Position Mandatory Qualification (Per Attachment 7, Section 1.2.4)
Position Job Title: Cloud Engineer
Applies engineering disciplines to cloud computing and brings a systematic approach to concerns of commercialization, standardization, and governance of cloud computing applications. Leverages the methods and tools of engineering in conceiving, developing, operating and maintaining cloud computing systems and solutions. Uses the economics of cloud resources to solve business problems.
Position Skill Level: Expert
84+ months: Candidate is able to provide guidance to large teams and/or has extensive industry experience and is considered at the top of his/her field.
Position Requested Qualifications (Per Attachment 7, Section 1.2.5)
- 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.
- 36 Months of experience using CI/CD pipeline technologies
- 36Months of experience using GitHub repository
- 24 Months of experience using Prisma Cloud, Tenable, OS Patching/upgrading
Additional Information Requests:
- Resource must sign a confidentiality agreement in the event of any exposure to private and/or sensitive information
- All NYS OER Mandated Training and UI Confidentiality Training
- Resource will train/mentor State Staff in specialized skills. During the term of this assignment, knowledge transfer from the consultant to State employees will be mandated. The knowledge transfer plan will be a written plan with details determined by the State Project Manager in collaboration with the selected consultant according to the specific program needs.
What are the daily work hours?
7:00AM 6:00PM M-F (Starting time is negotiable)
Is telecommuting allowed for this position?
Yes
What is the format of the Candidate interview?
In-person
What type of software is typically used by the Agency?
Java, DB2
What type of hardware is typically used by the Agency?
Google Cloud, Windows, Linux