Google Cloud Staff Platform Engineer (Hybrid - Sunnyvale, CA)

***Please note that our customer is currently not considering applicants from the following locations: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee.***

Our Customer is a corporation that develops, manufactures, and markets robotic products designed to improve clinical outcomes of patients through minimally invasive surgery. Founded in 1995, their goal was to create innovative, robotic-assisted systems that help empower doctors and hospitals to make surgery less invasive than an open approach. Working with the top medical professionals, they continue to develop new, minimally invasive surgical platforms and future diagnostic tools to help solve complex healthcare challenges around the world.

We are seeking a Google Cloud Staff Platform Engineer on a contract basis to help support our Customer's business needs. This role is hybrid (3 days onsite 2 days remote/week) in Sunnyvale, CA.

The ideal candidate will have proven experience in DevOps GCP architecting/engineering within a regulated environment, support for mid-sized development teams, and success in developing infrastructure as code for dynamic environments.


Responsibilities:

• Focusing on infrastructure automation, cloud integration, and execution of infrastructure as code methodologies. This position will work closely with developers, DBAs, QA, and project managers throughout the software lifecycle in delivering best in class technical infrastructure to support external product delivery
• Automation (Infrastructure as code, patching, release management, etc.)
• Participate in the development, execution, and support of Infrastructure release management and operations
• Establish monitoring and infrastructure health reporting for advancement of self-healing infrastructure principles
• Enhance/extend a configuration/deployment/monitoring framework in partnership with Site Reliability Engineer(s)
• Support cloud environment on GCP
• Interact with internal customers and development team to gather and define requirements and document architecture
• Follows a formal design process using formal specifications, data flow diagrams, other accepted design techniques and also adheres to regulations, standards, and established guidelines for development and delivery within area of responsibility
• Deploy and manage a DevOps pipeline using tools such as; Ansible, Gitlab, Terraform, Git
• Work with NoSQL Datastores (such as MongoDB) and RDMS like Microsoft SQL, MYSQL, PostGre
• Provides off-hours support for critical applications as required

Qualifications:

• B.S in Computer Science or related technical major, or commensurate experience
• Knowledgeable DevOps, Systems/Infrastructure engineering experience with minimum 5+ years of experience
• Knowledgeable in at least 2 programming languages (i.e. Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, etc)
• Proficient with GCP technologies (Compute Engine, VPC, Cloud Storage, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud SQL, Kubernetes as a Service, etc.)
• Experienced in Ansible, Terraform, or other configuration management and centralized configuration tools
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline and Build tools such as TeamCity, CircleCI, GitLab etc.
• Knowledgeable with Enterprise tools like Splunk, Nagios, ELK etc.
• Experienced with management of Kubernetes and Docker/Container are required
• High character, willingness to learn, and member of a crew (not a bystander)
• Familiar with GCP Security Command Center and the DevSecOps model
• Knowledgeable with AWS technologies (EC2, VPC, EBS, ALB, RDS, S3, EKS etc.) preferred
• Knowledgeable with Linux OS, RedHat, Fedora, Debian, Rocky, and Ubuntu
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving skills and attention to detail; mission-critical production support experience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience in working effectively in cross-functional teams
• Travel: 15%

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Perks are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements)

Health Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life (including spouse & child), 401k, STD/LTD, AD&D, and Commuter Benefits program.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.