GCP Cloud Engineer

Project Description:

As a Senior Cloud Operations Engineer, you will be responsible for implementing and maintaining a highly scalable and secure cloud infrastructure. The role involves applying best practices in cloud governance, security, monitoring, and continuous deployment (CI/CD) to ensure smooth and efficient cloud operations. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance cloud efficiency, reliability, and security while ensuring compliance with industry/security standards.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and administer cloud environments across platforms; provide support for a broad range of cloud services, ensuring consistent support delivery and timely resolution of issues
• Implement and enforce governance policies, such as access control, tagging, cost management, guardrails, SCPs, and resource monitoring, to ensure adherence to company-wide security standards.
• Proactively identify security vulnerabilities and mitigate risks.
• Implement, and manage automation scripts and tools to streamline cloud operations, including infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and monitoring
• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines for the automated deployment of applications and services in a scalable and secure manner.
• Monitor system performance, analyze metrics, and implement improvements to ensure efficient utilization of cloud resources
• Collaborate with peers on troubleshooting technical issues; assist in implementing technical strategies established by the team
• Aid in implementing disaster recovery strategies to ensure data protection and maintain business continuity in accordance with the team's guidelines
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold Optum's respectful and courteous work environment

Mandatory Skills Description:

• 8+ years of experience
• 3+ years Leadership / Supervisory experience
• Strong understanding of GCP.
• Proficiency in data analysis and programming languages like Python, PowerShell.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and Advanced CI/CD expertise with GitHub actions.
• Proficiency with Cloud monitoring and Cloud networking
• Ability to utilize AI for automation and analysis
• * GCP
• * Python, PowerShell
• * Terraform (Infrastructure as Code) proficiency
• * Advanced CI/CD expertise with GitHub Actions

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

• * Tagging
• * Guardrails
• * SCPs
• * Continuous deployment
• * Automated deployment of applications and services
• * Scalable and secure cloud infrastructure
• * Compliance with industry/security standards
• * Collaboration with cross-functional teams
• * Technical strategy implementation