Cloud Engineer

Summary

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Position will be filled at any of the locations listed below. Site specific salary information as follows:

• Battle Creek, MI: $125,776- $163,514
• Columbus, OH: $131,245- $170,624
• Dayton, OH: $130,461 - $169,604
• Fort Belvoir, VA: $143,913- $187,093
• New Cumberland, PA: $143,913- $187,093
• Ogden, UT: $125,776- $163,514
• Philadelphia, PA: $138,595- $180,178
• Richmond, VA: $131,385- $170,806

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Duties

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• Designs, engineers, configures, tests, deploys, and sustains enterprise cloud platform environments in Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) that support mission systems, data platforms, artificial intelligence solutions, analytics workloads, and APIs.
• Performs the technical work to create foundational cloud environments and organizational components, including organization hierarchy design, project structures, shared platform services, baseline configurations, and approved deployment patterns.
• Builds and maintains Google Cloud Platform 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, 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.

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Conditions of employment

• Tour of Duty: Set Schedule
• Security Requirements: Non-Critical Sensitive with 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 for more information.
• This position and any future selections from this announcement may be used to fill various shifts located anywhere within DLA Information Operations, J6.

Qualifications

To qualify for an IT Specialist (SYSADMIN), your resume and supporting documentation must include:

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:

• 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.

Education

Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this grade level.

Additional information

This position will close when it receives 100 applications which may be sooner than the close date.

As required by 5 C.F.R. 302.106, DLA will provide Section 508 conformant ICT to employees with disabilities. All ICT interfaces with the public related to vacancy announcements and career transition opportunities must conform to the applicable requirements in the current ICT Standards and Guidelines (36 C.F.R. 1194).

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Reemployed Annuitants: This position does not meet criteria for appointment of Reemployed Annuitants. The DoD criteria for hiring Reemployed Annuitants can be found at: _vol300.PDF

Drug-Free Workplace Policy

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.

Applicants tentatively selected for employment in testing designated positions will undergo a urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Refusal to undergo testing or testing positive for illegal drugs will result in withdrawal of the tentative job offer and a six-month denial of employment with DLA from the date of the drug test. Employees in drug testing designated positions are subject to random drug testing. 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 successfully pass; or refusal to conduct the test may result in: 1) the tentative or FJO being withdrawn during the recruitment process; or 2) 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.

The DLA drug testing panel tests for the following substances: marijuana, cocaine, opiates, heroin, phencyclidine, amphetamines, methamphetamines, fentanyl, norfentanyl, methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), and opioids.

ADVISORY: Use of cannabidiol (CBD) products may result in a positive drug test for marijuana. DLA employees are subject to Federal law and under Federal law, Marijuana is illegal.

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Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

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