This role supports the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contract and currently has an opening for a Google Cloud Platform Engineer. **Location:** This position will be remote. **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. - Bachelor’s Degree and 4+ 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 - 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. **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