Google Cloud Platform; GCP) Engineer

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A-TEK is seeking a GCP Engineer to support our federal client based in Silver Spring, MD location. The successful candidate will deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure supporting the client’s applications and data services. Support growing cloud workloads across the agency’s organizations and collaborate with OCI engineers, database administrators, developers, and security personnel. Help teams operate dependable services and resolve connectivity and deployment issues.

Location:
Silver Spring, Maryland. Onsite work and Government-approved telework as assigned.

Schedule:

Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Eastern coverage, with emergency on-call support as needed.

Responsibilities

• Provision and support GCP compute, storage, networking, and managed services for assigned workloads.
• Configure and troubleshoot VPC networks, subnets, firewall rules, load balancing, and private connectivity within the assigned scope.
• Manage assigned IAM roles, service accounts, and secrets using established access and security controls.
• Build and maintain infrastructure automation using Terraform, gcloud CLI, and scripting; support repeatable deployments and controlled changes.
• Monitor infrastructure health, logs, performance, and capacity; troubleshoot incidents and maintain operational documentation.
• Coordinate connectivity and dependencies between GCP, OCI, and other environments; support migration and resilience activities as assigned.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of systems or infrastructure engineering experience, including at least 2 years of hands-on GCP deployment and operations experience.
• Practical GCP computing, networking, IAM, monitoring, and production troubleshooting experience.
• Experience with Terraform or comparable infrastructure as code, Linux administration, and Bash or Python scripting.
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field, or a government-approved qualifying substitution.
• Ability to communicate technical plans and risks clearly, document changes, and coordinate work across customer and contractor teams.

Preferred qualifications

• Cloud SQL administration for PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server, including backups, high availability, and performance troubleshooting.
• GKE/Kubernetes, CI/CD, Secret Manager, and cross-cloud networking experience.
• Database migrations, Oracle familiarity, or experience connecting applications to managed databases.
• Federal cloud support experience and CompTIA Security+ or another relevant security certification.

Work and access requirements

Ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust suitability determination and comply with federal identity, security, and training requirements. U.S. citizenship or qualifying lawful U.S. status is required, subject to customer…