SES Corporation

Junior GCP Cloud Systems Engineer

SES Corporation

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Hanscom Air Force Base • Alabama • Massachusetts • United States

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Job Level

Junior

Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformJenkinsKubernetesMicroservicesNoSQLSplunkSQLTerraform

About the role

  • **Program Description:** This role supports the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contract and currently has an opening for a GCP Cloud Systems Engineer Jr.
  • **Location:** This position will be hybrid remote. Candidates will be required to work onsite as needed. Candidates need to be located near Hanscom AFB (Boston, MA) or work in Huntsville, AL.
  • **Responsibilities:**
  • We are seeking a Cloud Engineer with expertise in multiple cloud platforms. A successful individual will be responsible for developing in a scalable cloud-native solutions, and ensuring best practices across architecture, development, deployment and security. This is a hands-on technical role that requires rolling up your sleeves to architect, code, and debug.  **
  • - Design scalable, resilient, and secure cloud solutions for Google environment.
  • - Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and assess their potential impact on organizational goals.
  • - ​Drive adoption of DevOps practices, infrastructure as code, and automation frameworks.
  • - Optimize application performance and reliability in cloud environments.
  • - ​Design secure cloud architectures implementing zero-trust principles and defense-in-depth strategies.
  • - ​Ensure compliance with industry standards (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, etc.) and regulatory requirements.
  • - ​Implement identity and access management solutions and security monitoring frameworks.
  • - Facilitate customer onboarding and implement a consistent pathway to cloud adoption.
  • - Assess legacy systems and design modernization strategies including containerization and microservices.
  • - ​Develop migration methodologies and ensure minimal organizational disruption during transitions.
  • - Manage and optimize cloud environments, networking, VPNs, IaaS, PaaS, and SQL systems.
  • - Implement and maintain Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Jira, Confluence, Artifactory, and Guacamole to support DevSecOps practices.
  • - Containerize applications to enhance scalability and deployment efficiency.
  • - Support the design and development of Shared Services.
  • - Configure and troubleshoot cloud, virtual, and physical hardware and software systems.
  • - Establish and maintain SQL and NoSQL databases, ensuring their performance and reliability.
  • - Prepare detailed technical documentation to support development and operational processes.
  • - Conduct security assessments and remediate vulnerabilities in cloud environments.
  • - Collaborate with cross-functional teams including development, operations, security, and product management.
  • - ​Create reference architectures, design patterns, and technical standards for cloud implementations.

Requirements

  • **Required Skills: **
  • - Bachelor’s Degree and 2+ years or more of experience; additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.
  • - Must have an active Secret clearance.
  • - 1 or more cloud certifications within 6 months of hire
  • - US citizenship required.
  • - Certifications: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT-2)
  • - ​​Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
  • - ​​Experience onboarding customer log-data from cloud platforms to on-premises or cloud-based analysis environments such as Elastic or Splunk.
  • - Cloud architecture and design experience.
  • **Preferred Skills**
  • · Experience with USAF Cloud One or Platform 1.
  • · Experience with Zero Trust Architecture.
  • · Excellent customer service skills, with experience working in a customer-facing position.
  • · ​Strong understanding Active Directory, Azure AD, SAML and the standards, procedures, and processes.
  • · Experience with Ansible, AWS console, Elastic, AWS, Azure, Jira, Confluence, Git, Bitbucket and various cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings.
  • · Administration experience with cloud-based applications (MS O365, SharePoint, Azure AD, AWS).
  • · ​Experience administering Windows Server, and related services.
  • · Cloud certifications in Google clouds.
Benefits
  • **SES provides a competitive salary and the following benefits:**
  • - Medical
  • - Dental
  • - Vision
  • - AD&D
  • - STD
  • - LTD
  • - Company paid Life Insurance
  • - 401k with employer contribution
  • - Paid Time Off
  • - Pet Insurance
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud architecturecloud-native solutionsDevOps practicesinfrastructure as codeautomation frameworkscontainerizationmicroservicesSQL systemssecurity assessmentsmigration methodologies
Soft Skills
excellent verbal communicationexcellent written communicationcustomer service skillscollaborationproblem-solving
Certifications
Bachelor's Degreeactive Secret clearanceCompTIA Security+cloud certifications