Google Cloud Practice Architect - US

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver proof-of-concept projects, technical workshops, and lead implementation projects.
• Focus on key customer solutions such as web applications, enterprise applications, archiving and disaster recovery, education, and government.
• Creating, articulating, and positioning an innovative and compelling value proposition so that customer executives clearly realize the benefits and transformation value of migrating to GCP.
• Defining and executing technical migration and modernization strategies by working with highly technical teams.
• Deliveringmodern architectures such as microservices and event driven architectures using managed services and cloud native capabilities.
• Engaging with development, infrastructure, security, and IT operations teams at the customer and identifying repeatable patterns and architectures fo rcloud migration.
• Identifying platform improvements, influencing future iterations of the GCP platform.

Qualifications:

• Security in GCP
• Networking in GCP
• GKE and overall compute in GCP, including GCE
• GCP Storage - Spanner, CloudSQL, MemoryStore, GCS, etc.
• Automation and operations in GCP
• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in ComputerScience, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field.
• 3+years of design, implementation, or consulting experienc ein applications or infrastructures.
• 5+ years within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, Automation, and operations)
• 3+yrs experience in a Solutions Architect, Enterprise Architect, or Lead Architect role leading the discovery, design, and construction of fullstack custom and commercial off the shelf applications.
• Multi-tier distributed architecture experience within IT consulting, IT operations, application development or support to include the following: experience migrating, architecting, operating onpremises or cloud-based solutions, or experience transforming legacy IT solutions, and working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies.
• Experience architecting, designing, migrating workloads to thepublic cloud.
• Deep level understanding of various migration techniques such as re-host, refactor, re-architect, re-platform, repurchase,etc.
• Expert Knowledge of Google services such as compute, GKE, GCE, Spanner, GCS, Networking and Security.
• Deep understanding of GCP Ecosystem
• In depth understanding of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing and firewalls.
• Extensive expertise in designing systems with high availability, resilience, and fault tolerance, incorporating load balancing, horizontal/vertical scaling, and ensuring continuous availability.
• Strong track record of implementing GCP services in a variety of distributed computing environments.
• Experience in infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g.,Shell,Python, Ruby, PowerShell)
• Experience with software development lifecycle(SDLC) and agile/iterative Methodologies.
• Scripting and/or coding skills (Examples include but are not limited to: Java(OR)Python(OR)Terraform,PowerShell (OR) Bash)
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Salt, Chef, Puppet.
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery(CI/CD) frameworks and tools such as, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Gitlab CI, Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy.
• Direct hands-on experience leading the design, development, and deployment of business software at scale or recent hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience.
• Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements(eg. security,privacy,SOX,HIPAA etc.)
• Experience in a range of migration discovery, profiling, migration, automation, and operations technologies and tools.
• Willingness to travel to customer locations as needed.




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