Senior Cloud Engineer – Google Cloud & Oracle Cloud

Job summary

The Senior Cloud Engineer builds and operates enterprise foundations across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), with responsibility for both platforms. The role designs landing zones and networks, automates deployments with Terraform and GitOps, and implements identity and security controls aligned with NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5. It also supports production operations, high availability and disaster recovery, and provides runbooks, authorization evidence, and knowledge transfer to customer operations staff.

Qualifications

• At least 9 years of experience deploying and configuring cloud environments.
• Production experience with both Google Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Production experience using Terraform on GCP and OCI.
• Experience with cloud networking, private connectivity, routing, and DNS.
• Experience implementing IAM and single sign-on federation with SAML 2.0 or OIDC.
• Working knowledge of NIST SP 800-53 security controls in a federal environment.
• Ability to obtain and maintain the background investigation required by the federal customer.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy GCP landing zones, resource hierarchies, Shared VPC networks, and connectivity.
• Design and deploy OCI landing zones, tenancy and compartment structures, VCN and DRG networks, and connectivity.
• Build and maintain Terraform modules and GitOps workflows across production, integration, development, and sandbox environments.
• Configure IAM and identity federation using SAML 2.0 and OIDC.
• Enforce cloud security guardrails and standards using GCP and OCI security services.
• Apply enterprise tagging and labeling for asset management and chargeback or showback.
• Monitor cloud environments and integrate monitoring with Datadog, Splunk, and ServiceNow.
• Perform patching, maintenance, capacity planning, rightsizing, and incident response.
• Design and test high availability, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Write runbooks and standard operating procedures, provide authorization evidence, and transfer knowledge to customer operations staff.

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