Cloud Engineer

• Designs, engineers, configures, tests, deploys, and sustains enterprise cloud platform environments in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that support mission systems, data platforms…
• …, artificial intelligence solutions, analytics workloads, APIs, and business applications
• Performs the technical work required to create and maintain foundational cloud environments used by multiple teams and organizational components, including organization hierarchy design…
• …, folder and project structures, shared platform services, baseline configurations, and approved deployment patterns.
• Builds and maintains GCP landing zones and shared platform services used to support secure onboarding of workloads into cloud environments.
• Builds and maintains reusable platform templates, infrastructure modules, deployment standards, and baseline configurations used across multiple efforts.
• Produces and maintains engineering artifacts required to support enterprise cloud platform operation, including architecture diagrams, reference architectures, platform blueprints, environment configurations…
• … infrastructure-as-code modules, deployment instructions, interface descriptions, configuration baselines, dependency records, operational standards, and sustainment documentation.
• Performs validation and testing of platform builds and environment changes to ensure they function correctly and support intended workloads.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Tour of Duty: Set Schedule
• Security Requirements: Non-Critical Sensitive, Secret Access
• Appointment is subject to the completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination, where reciprocity cannot be applied; unfavorably adjudicated background checks will be grounds for removal.
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
• Selective Service Requirement: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.
• Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
• Bargaining Unit Status: No
• Pre-Employment Physical: Not Required
• Selectees are required to have a REAL ID or other acceptable identification documents to access certain federal facilities. See https://www.tsa.gov/real-id for more information.
• This position and any future selections from this announcement may be used to fill various shifts located within DLA Information Operations (J6) locations.
• This position is subject to an initial drug screening, and random testing thereafter. A negative drug test result must be received by HR within 30 calendar days after the EOD (i.e., start date).
• The selectee’s inability to successfully pass; or refusal to conduct the test may result in…
• …the TJO or FJO being withdrawn during the recruitment process or subsequently being removed from Federal service for failure to meet a condition of employment.
• You may be required to sign a “Drug Test Statement of Understanding” if you are selected for this position, Develops and applies infrastructure patterns for development, test, staging, and production environments so that workloads can be deployed into repeatable, governable, and supportable cloud environments.
• Designs and configures cloud compute, storage, networking, and supporting platform services used by hosted applications, APIs, data solutions, and AI/ML workloads
• Diagnoses and resolves platform engineering issues such as misconfigured projects, policy conflicts, permission errors, networking failures, provisioning failures, service enablement problems, broken inherited controls, routing conflicts, DNS failures, environment drift, performance bottlenecks, storage access failures, or service integration issues that affect hosted workloads or shared cloud services.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience., The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is committed to maintaining a safe, drug-free workplace. All DLA employees are required to refrain from illegal drug use on and off duty. DLA conducts pre-employment, reasonable suspicion, post-accident, and random drug testing.

A. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position, and is directly in or related to this position. To qualify at the GS-14 level, applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military or private sector. Applicants must meet eligibility requirements including time-in-grade (General Schedule (GS) positions only), time-after-competitive appointment, minimum qualifications, and any other regulatory requirements by the cut-off/closing date of the announcement. Creditable specialized experience includes, Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this grade level.