Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. General Dynamics Information Technology is seeking a Senior Google Cloud Platform Engineer to administer the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The role involves providing engineering expertise to support mission programs by delivering scalable cloud infrastructure and enhancing DevSecOps capabilities, while ensuring environment reliability and security.
Responsibilities
- Engineer, deploy, and optimize GCP infrastructure across IaaS, PaaS, serverless, container, data, and AI services
- Support data scientists and AI engineers using Vertex AI, Gemini APIs, Model Garden, BigQuery ML, Dataproc, Dataflow, and Databricks on GCP
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and policy-driven automation frameworks
- Migrate cloud resources into IaC with version control, automated testing, and compliance enforcement
- Implement DevSecOps practices including automated scans, configuration compliance, policy-as-code, and CI/CD controls
- Engineer core GCP components: compute, storage, networking, identity, Kubernetes, monitoring, logging, and governance
- Design and support secure connectivity across hybrid, SaaS, and multi-cloud architectures
- Produce architecture diagrams, engineering documentation, implementation guides, and technical recommendations
- Evaluate emerging GCP, AI, and multi-cloud services and recommend adoption strategies
- Contribute to cloud standards, reusable patterns, landing zones, security baselines, and modernization roadmaps
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Systems Engineering, or related field
- 10+ years of cloud, infrastructure, systems, or platform engineering experience, preferably with hands-on development experience
- Hands-on enterprise-scaling Google Cloud Platform (GCP) engineering and operations experience
- Experience supporting AI/ML workloads (Vertex AI, BigQuery, Dataproc, Dataflow, MLOps patterns)
- Strong DevSecOps automation skills, including CI/CD, Git-based workflows, and secure deployment practices
- Expertise with Terraform and IaC best practices
- Understanding of multi-cloud concepts and AWS/Azure equivalents
- Proficiency with Linux and Windows Server
- Scripting experience with Python, Bash, and PowerShell
- Strong GCP networking experience (VPCs, subnets, firewall rules, Cloud DNS, Cloud NAT, Cloud Router, Cloud VPN, Cloud Interconnect, PSC, load balancing, routing)
- Experience with Docker and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
- Experience with key GCP services including: Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Artifact Registry, Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, IAM, Secret Manager, Cloud KMS, SCC, and/or Organization Policy Service
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance (U.S. citizenship required)
- Google Cloud certifications, including Cloud Architect, DevOps Engineer, Security Engineer, Data Engineer, ML Engineer
- Experience with Vertex AI, Gemini APIs, Model Garden, Dataplex, Looker, Cloud Composer, Pub/Sub, and Databricks on GCP
- Experience engineering secure GCP landing zones (Org Policies, folder/project design, centralized logging, Shared VPC, guardrails)
- Experience in regulated environments (FedRAMP, HIPAA, NIST 800-53 / 171, CMMC)
- Security+, CySA+, CISSP, CCSP, CKA, or CKAD certifications
- Experience with Agile/Scrum, Jira, Confluence, GitLab, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps
- Experience integrating SaaS platforms with GCP and hybrid/multi-cloud environments
Benefits
- AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
- An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
- 401K with company match
- Competitive pay and paid time off
- Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
- A variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- A vision plan
- A 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
- Full flex work weeks where possible
- A variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
- Typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness
- An additional 10 paid holidays per year
- Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire
- The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees
- Short and long-term disability benefits
- Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available
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