Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Woolpert is hiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our dynamic Cloud Solutions and Interdisciplinary Services (CSIS) team. This position reports to the Software Engineering Manager and is responsible for researching rapidly evolving Google Cloud and related DevOps technologies to stay current and know when and how to best incorporate them as part of an overall solution. This position is client-facing and focused on successful project delivery, including providing technical leadership for your project team, collaborating during discovery activities, developing technical solutions, hands-on delivery, and testing in an agile/scrum environment.

Essential Functions:

• Perform client and project discovery activities to understand business and technical requirements, which include both architecture and security reviews of existing systems.
• Key member of the engineering team, working with client engineering teams, product owners, solutions architects, and back-end/front-end developers to drive successful project delivery for our clients and solutions.
• Design cloud infrastructure to ensure cost-effective, reliable, and secure cloud solutions.
• Develop effective customer training and documentation packages as part of solution delivery.
• Write code: implement and test code using Infrastructure as Code for repeatable cloud-based infrastructure projects.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines to automate deploying software and infrastructure.
• Implement Site Reliability Engineering practices and processes.
• Ensure systems are meeting required security guidelines and frameworks.
• Follow agile/scrum methodologies and best practices.
• Work closely with the cloud solutions architect and technical project manager to drive the successful delivery of client projects as well as establish repeatable processes and best practices in a professional services organization.

Minimum Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in a cloud or systems engineering role.
• Demonstrated proficiency in designing and deploying cloud infrastructure in Google Cloud (compute, storage, networking, security, monitoring/operations).
• Demonstrated proficiency in deploying container-based applications (Kubernetes, Cloud Run, Fargate).
• Demonstrated proficiency in at least one Infrastructure as Code language (Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CDK).
• Demonstrated proficiency in at least one programming language or scripting language (GO, Bash, Python, NodeJS/ES6, etc).
• Solid understanding of SDLC and Agile software development methodologies and tools related to team software development (e.g. Git, Jira, etc.)
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Preferred Skills and Abilities:

• Multi-cloud deployment migration experience.
• Google Cloud Platform professional certifications.
• Professional services experience, designing and delivering large enterprise solutions.
• Cloud-native application development.
• Knowledge of security and networking principles

About Woolpert Digital Innovations:

The Cloud Solutions and Interdisciplinary Services (CSIS) team is part of Woolpert's Geospatial sector. We are an industry-leading development organization delivering SaaS solutions and professional services. Our customers span both the public and private sectors and range from startups to Fortune 300 companies. Born out of Woolpert's award-winning Digital Innovations team, we deliver