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Google Cloud Engineer


Rapid Cycle Solutions LLC (RCS) is an innovative small business providing IT and management consulting services to the U.S. Federal Government and commercial clients. We have unique strengths in complex crossorganizational solution analysis design development implementation and change management supporting enterprise requirements. Our team of professionals has deep consulting backgrounds supporting the unique needs of our clients. Our team members have proven experience leading strategic initiatives within the civilian Government agencies.


RCS is seeking a Google Could Engineer to join our multimillion dollar National Intelligence program supporting the Cloud Investment MultiCloud Management (CIMM) program. As a contributor to the Intelligence Communitys first multicloud initiative you will be at the epicenter of emergent cloud computing technologies establishing a foundation that will evolve to include all agencies within the IC. As a Cloud Engineer you will advise mission users on utilizing cloudbased IT systems provide support for development in or transition to the cloud and be responsible for the implementation troubleshooting and maintenance of cloud environments. Additionally you will manage system infrastructure and any processes related to these systems.



This position requires the candidate to work onsite in Chantilly VA. Relocation assistance is not available.



What you will do:

• Advising Government stakeholders on multicloud multiagency collaborative activities that require navigating agency specific policy requirements
• Providing cloud strategy services that cover all security fabrics and are available to the Government to assist with the relocation of an organizations business applications data and workloads to ensure maximum effectiveness of the multicloud environment
• Serving as a cloud agnostic evangelist and helping to educate the Government customer on cloud services
• Defining and documenting best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance
• Reviewing mission system requirements and facilitating recommendations for Cloud Service Provider (CSP) Task Order Proposal Requests (TOPRs)
• Providing advisory services to the service provider and IC element for the discovery adoption and understanding of new and existing CSP service offerings operating in the C2E environment
• Advising the Government on application performance uptime and scale best practices maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design
• Ensuring the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into cloud solutions that acknowledge technical schedule and cost constraints
• May be required to provide cloud agnostic technical guidance in the formulation of customer multicloud work statements

Required Qualifications/Education:

• Clearance: Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph
• Bachelors degree. Will accept additional handson experience in lieu of degree
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience is a must
• 2 years of experience in a cloud and/or hybrid environment
• 2 years of demonstrated experience in one or more of the following activities:
• IaaS PaaS and SaaS services (e.g. compute storage network security administration automation application services and databases) in either native cloud or hybrid cloud environments
• Developing and deploying cloud solutions to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Platform (GCP) IBM Cloud or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Experience in building and deploying systems in the cloud using continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) frameworks and infrastructure automation
• Largescale data architecture data modeling database design and information systems implementation
• Strong customer service skills teaming skills and the ability to collaborate within a crossfunctional team as well as the CSPs (AWS Azure Google IBM and Oracle)

Certifications in any of the following CSPs:

• Azure
• AWS
• OCI
• GCP
• IBM

Nice to Have Qualifications:

• Strong analysis and quality assessment skills
• Experience with various Linux and Microsoft Windows OSs distributions
• Experience with Structured Query Language (SQL) and databases
• Experience migrating both custom built and enterprise apps to and from onprem to cloud
• Experience debugging performance and technical issues

RCS is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.


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All RCS work locations are drugfree workplaces.

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