[Hiring] Sr. Cloud Engineer @Acuity

Role Description

Acuity is seeking a skilled Cloud Engineer/Architect to join our team to support a federal customer’s cloud computing office. The Architect will help conceptualize, design, and build the customer’s Google Cloud Platform (GCP) product to be used by many organizations within this cabinet-level agency.

The Architect will serve on a focused, small (6 to 8 person) team to design and build the GCP service offering, which will be used by the agency to modernize and migrate systems to the cloud. The Architect will work closely with the Product Owner, Scrum Master, cloud engineers, and security engineers to define and build the initial service offering and the roadmap for future releases of the offering. This position requires in-depth knowledge of cloud computing, Infrastructure as Code, and the ability to clearly communicate architectural trade-offs/design options so that the Product Owner can make informed decisions. The successful candidate will be a motivated team-player with the desire and ability to work in a fast-paced, exciting environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution development for Google cloud-based solutions
• Architect, design, and implement plans for deploying complex enterprise solutions and services on Google Cloud
• Architect highly available, fault-tolerant solutions with a disaster recovery strategy; plan and execute regular fire drill activities
• Provide guidance and technical advice to clients and colleagues, and being actively involved with the team daily
• Develop proofs-of-concept for architectural designs and create Google Cloud PaaS and IaaS estimates with high-level technical plans.

Qualifications

• Must have 3+ years of work experience architecting and engineering Enterprise Cloud Platform technologies such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Must have hands-on experience with Terraform (Infrastructure as Code tool)
• Must have experience building and automating CI/CD pipelines using Gitlab or equivalent; building infrastructure; and automating service deployment leveraging scripting capabilities and infrastructure-as-code best practices
• Five or more years of experience with:
  • Demonstrated cloud architecture projects and deployments;
  • Architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of enterprise-level cloud platforms, solutions, and services;
  • Architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications (i.e., having an architectural sense for ensuring availability, reliability, etc.); and
  • Leading and implementing cloud strategy migration and architecture customization.
• Experience with establishing technical strategy and architecture at an enterprise level
• Expert level knowledge of security, authentication, MFA, authorization, data privacy, identity and access management (IAM), cryptography/key management, access controls, and security protocols
• Some knowledge of GCP preferred, or the demonstrated ability to quickly learn and adapt skills across multiple Enterprise Cloud Platform technologies.

Preferred Experience and Education

• Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in Computer Science or Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field
• Experience working with Federal government clients
• Experience with Government Authority to Operate (ATO) security requirements and processes
• Experience with DevOps practices (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, Agile Scrum Lifecycle, etc.)
• Experience with Linux and Windows Operation Systems

Required Clearance

• Secret clearance or above (Interim Secret is acceptable)