GCP Cloud SME Location: Remote Job ID: ATR 17629 Job Description Job Title: GCP Cloud SME Location: Fully Remote Eligibility: Candidate must be a US Citizen and be willing to obtain a Public Trust ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Job Description: This position would be aligned to the USPS Office of Chief Information Officer (CIO) Architecture, Strategy, & Innovation (CASI). The position is under the Technology & Infrastructure Innovation Program which requires a Kafka (SME) to support the team with analysis to integrate new Kafka cluster and event stream requirements into established large-scale, production enterprise architectures. Conduct design and architecture assessments and provide written recommendations for integrating Kafka event streams within an application domain or enterprise event brokering. Additionally, help troubleshoot production Kafka event streams and software integration issues as top tier internal support, including review of performance issues and proposing resolutions. HOW A GCP CLOUD SME WILL MAKE AN IMPACT: - Leads cultural change for cloud adoption. Actively participates in the development and socialization of Infrastructure Solution roadmaps related to public cloud offerings. - Creates and communicates cloud policies, procedures, standards, design patterns, and reference architectures that define repeatable solutions. - Identifies training and development needs required to support cloud-based solutions standards; develops materials for training and awareness and delivers messages to the intended audience. - Interfaces with vendors to ensure standard architectures are adhered to and implemented for projects within a specific technology area. - Provides technical direction to management and systems professionals engaged in the analysis, design, development, implementation and maintenance of business information systems. - Ensures alignment of infrastructure and application solution design to the overall architecture for Enterprise applications and compliance with defined technology standards, policies, processes and best industry practices. - Researches and analyzes the technology industry and market trends relating to cloud technologies to determine potential impact upon the IT enterprise; makes recommendations to capitalize on trends and industry best practice. - Ensures the architecture governance structure is applied in a defined solutions area based on business and IT organization strategies. - Ensures publication and update of solution standards pertaining to cloud hosted solutions and manages individual projects related to the release and propagation of standards across IT. - Provides leadership and technical assistance as an IT SWAT team member to management and systems professionals engaged in problem solving regarding the analysis, design, development, implementation and maintenance of business information systems. - Demonstrated ability to research, analyze, and evaluate existing and proposed business systems and procedures, develop requirements and identify Google cloud centric system solutions in detailed measurable terms that achieve optimum performance and cost effectiveness. - Experience leading the design, development and deployment of performant cloud business software, in particular Google cloud, at scale or current hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience. - Ability to integrate cloud services, in particular on Google cloud, with other SaaS or on-premise technologies from leading vendor products Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, Linux, SAP, etc. - Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements in a regulated environment such as SOX and PCI for cloud applications, in particular on Google cloud. - Ability to automate complex tasks, in particular on Google cloud, using scripting or coding skills, or similar current automation tools (e.g., shell, Python, Ruby, PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef, or Puppet). - Knowledge of information systems enterprise-wide architecture including knowledge of a wide range of foundational technology such as cloud services, servers and storage, virtualization, high availability, performance analysis and management, and enterprise infrastructure monitoring for highly available web-scale systems. WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED: Required Experience: - 13+ years of hands-on experience Education: - Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or related field or equivalent experience – not required. Required skills: - Ability to communicate, orally and in writing, sufficient to develop and present management briefings; provide written and/or verbal guidance on technical issues; and prepare/present recommendations and reports. - Using design patterns for building scalable and maintainable applications/solutions. - Clearly document code, models, and technical solutions. - Expert knowledge of Google cloud services and have an Active Google Cloud Associate or Professional certification. - Knowledge of industry developments, business information systems and practices, development methods, procedures, standards, techniques, Agile application life cycle, test driven development, continuous integration of code development, and current cloud technologies, in particular Google cloud. - Continuous learning and adaptability in a very large IT organization. - Communicating complex technical concepts to both technical and executive stakeholders. - Troubleshooting software and technical implementations in large-scale enterprise ecosystems. - Understanding of concepts like CI/CD, containerization, and deployment strategies for Kafka components in large-scale production environments. - Querying and managing data in both SQL and NoSQL databases. - Proficiency in creating: - Generative AI and prompt engineering. - Technical diagrams with products like Microsoft Visio or Draw.io. - Technical design and architecture documents in Microsoft Word. - Business and technical presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint. - Data representations, charts and reports in tools such as Microsoft’s Excel worksheets and Power BI. Location: - Remote Security Clearance Level: - Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting - This position has a U.S. residency requirement. The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions). Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in the last 3 years. 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