Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Next Gen IT, Inc is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Analyst to implement and maintain cloud-based solutions with a focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The role involves collaborating with technical and business teams to design cloud architectures, manage security risks, and ensure the performance of cloud services.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop GCP centric cloud architectures that meet technical and business requirements
- Partner with technical teams, business stakeholders, and vendors to implement and maintain cloud solutions across GCP and other cloud platforms
- Develop and maintain cloud documentation including architecture diagrams, policies, procedures, and operational runbooks
- Support cloud networking including VPC design, subnetting, firewall rules, routing, and hybrid connectivity across GCP, other clouds, and on prem environments
- Identify and address security risks and ensure platforms align with enterprise security and compliance requirements
- Monitor, optimize, and automate cloud-based infrastructure for availability, performance, best practices, and cost optimization
- Collaborate with operational teams to troubleshoot issues and ensure highly available and resilient cloud services
- Stay current with GCP services, features, and best practices and apply improvements where appropriate
- Work with technical and business teams to ensure cloud solutions align with organizational strategy and standards
- Assess technical and business impact, quantify risk, and contribute to informed decision-making
Skills
- Hands-on professional experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in an enterprise environment
- Experience designing, implementing, and operating core GCP services, including projects, IAM, VPC networking, compute, storage, and security configurations
- Experience with GCP identity and access management, service accounts, and secure workload authentication
- Strong understanding of cloud networking concepts including IP addressing, subnetting, routing, firewall rules, and hybrid connectivity
- Experience supporting production cloud platforms with operational responsibilities, including troubleshooting and on call support
- Must be a United States citizen, due to regulatory, contractual, and security requirements
- Experience with Microsoft Azure services such as AKS, Databricks, and/or Data Factory
- Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services and concepts
- Experience with multi-cloud connectivity solutions, such as GCP Cloud Interconnect, Azure ExpressRoute, and Oracle FastConnect
- Experience with enterprise firewall platforms; Palo Alto firewall experience preferred
- Experience developing automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, ARM, PowerShell, Python, Ansible, JSON, and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with enterprise monitoring and observability tools, including Google Cloud Operations Suite (formerly Stackdriver) and Azure Monitor
- Experience with enterprise governance, DevOps practices, CI/CD methodologies, and cloud security controls
- Familiarity with utility industry regulatory requirements such as NERC CIP and Sarbanes Oxley (SOX)
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