A client of Kforce's in Denver, Colorado (CO) is hiring a GCP Cloud Engineer for a year-long, remote contract. Candidates must be local to Colorado, and willing to pick up equipment in Denver. Primary Responsibilities: * Configure and deploy VPC environments and cloud instances as designed by the Cloud Architect to meet the needs across all hosted workloads * Evaluate and collaborate with NetSecOps team to establish security controls necessary to meet policy and standards from the CISO, ideally in a templated and automated manner * Analyze and recommend new GCP capabilities for consideration for adoption * Manage users/orgs/groups/access within the cloud platform, based on requirements defined by IAM team * Create monitoring and reporting capabilities to meet management needs of cloud platform * Define and document standards and procedures (SOPs) for consumption of IaaS (via IaC), PaaS, and SaaS on GCP * Communicate/advocate capabilities of the cloud platform to drive adoption * Act as Tier-2 escalation point for on-call/break-fix efforts, to diagnose and resolve incidents and problems with cloud-based systems * Work with NetSecOps resources to ensure network security policy is established in a consistent, repeatable, and automated manner