Senior Google Cloud Application Support Specialist Location: Remote

Duration: 48 weeks

Security Clearance: Secret

Responsibilities

- Review and maintain governance and sustainment information for an enterprise Google Cloud platform, including platform status, known gaps, operational risks, dependencies, and priorities.
- Assess Google Cloud platform capabilities against operational, security, compliance, and application onboarding requirements, and identify improvements to documentation, processes, controls, and support models.
- Review security control documentation and validate alignment with applicable Government of Canada, Treasury Board, ITSG-33, and departmental security requirements.
- Support security assessment and authorization activities by preparing, organizing, and validating control evidence, compliance narratives, remediation inputs, and security posture reporting.
- Review network and connectivity patterns, including segmentation, routing, DNS, hybrid connectivity, shared services integration, and controlled access between cloud and on-premises environments.
- Review access management practices for privileged and non-privileged users, including IAM, PAM, least-privilege access, role governance, and just-in-time elevation.
- Validate connectivity and perimeter protection models, including hub-and-spoke networking, shared VPC patterns, VPC service controls, hierarchical firewall policies, and data exfiltration protection.
- Support application onboarding readiness by reviewing intake processes, onboarding guidance, operational prerequisites, documentation requirements, and readiness criteria.
- Maintain operational procedures, support documentation, onboarding materials, change records,



and knowledge transfer content for ongoing platform administration.
- Coordinate with stakeholders to support onboarding readiness, sustainment activities, issue triage, compliance follow-up, and service adoption.
- Produce technical, operational, compliance, and progress reporting, including dashboards, briefing inputs, and metrics on platform health, security posture, and compliance status.
- Prepare transition and sustainment materials, including handover documentation, operational guidance, architecture summaries, and knowledge transfer content.

Qualifications

- 5+ years of experience providing senior-level computer application support, cloud platform support, or cloud operations support services.
- Holds at least two of the following certifications:
- Google Cloud Certified Qualified Cloud Architect,
- Google Cloud Certified Professional Machine Learning Engineer,
- Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Network Engineer,
- Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer,
- Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, or
- Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer.
- 2+ years of experience supporting Google Cloud services, platforms, or projects for a large public sector organization of at least 5,000 employees.
- Experience configuring Google Cloud landing zones, enterprise cloud foundations, platform sustainment, or secure cloud service configuration.




- Experience supporting security authorization, compliance, control evidence, remediation planning, or Authority to Operate activities.
- Experience applying infrastructure as code, automated deployment, configuration management, or repeatable module patterns for controlled platform deployment.
- Experience producing operational support documentation, technical procedures, architecture summaries, handover materials, or knowledge transfer content.
- Experience managing identity and access governance, hybrid networking, DNS, firewall modernization, security monitoring, logging, or SIEM integration.
- Must hold a valid Secret personnel security clearance.

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Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment process.

We sincerely thank all applicants for their interest in this opportunity. While we appreciate every application, only those selected for an interview will be contacted* .

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