A client of Kforce's in Denver, CO is looking for two GCP Cloud Engineers. The duration of contract is 01/20/25 to 07/20/25. This will be a remote role, but candidates must be local to Colorado or willing to relocate before the start date. Overview: The GCP Cloud Engineer is responsible for implementing the designs and standards provided by the Cloud Architect and established by the Cloud Operations team. In addition, they will be responsible for deploying application hosting environments using repeatable templates/tools/processes, with a primary focus on the GCP cloud platform within a DevOps structured team and methodology. 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 in a templated and automated manner * Analyze and recommend new GCP capabilities 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 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; You will be required to participate in a weekly after-hours on-call rotation; While on call, you will need to be available to assist in troubleshooting or resolve any production break-fix issues after hour * Work with NetSecOps to ensure network security policy is established in a consistent, repeatable, and automated manner