Large enterprise looking for GCP Architect (PC5)

Roles and Responsibilities

 Responsible for design, development, implementation, operation improvement and debug

cloud environments in GCP and Cloud Management Platform and orchestration tools.

 Performs engineering design evaluations for new environment builds

 Architect, implement and improve possible automations for cloud environments using

native or 3 rd party tools like Terraform, Salt, Chef etc

 Recommends alterations to development and design to improve quality of products and/or

procedures.

 Implementation of industry standard security practices during implementation and maintain

it throughout the lifecycle.

 Has knowledge of commonly-used concepts, practices, and procedures through automation

tools. Relies on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the

job.

 Have a good understanding of Google best practice/recommendation and should be able to

align the same with the customer requirements to deliver best in class solution for the

customer.

 The role is also expected to leverage prior knowledge and experience with the GCP native

automation framework (deployment manager) to perform automation of build and

deployment activities.

 This individual will consult with other team members and use prior expertise with

GCP/AWS/Azure to extend an existing framework of automation across new and existing

application environments.

 Advise and engage with the customer executives on their cloud strategy roadmap,

improvements, alignment by bringing in industry best practice/trends and work on

further improvements with required business case analysis and required

presentations.

 Creating business cases for transformation and modernization, including analysis of

both total cost of ownership and potential cost and revenue impacts of the

transformation

 Process analysis and design, with a focus on identifying technology-driven

improvements to core enterprise processes

 Maintain deep knowledge of the market for cloud services, enterprise applications,

business process management, advanced analytics, and integration software

 Develop alternate technology solutions blueprint (cloud-based computing, storage,

etc.) to build case for legacy technology modernization

 Develop recommendations for operating model development to implement

transformation initiatives

Skill/ Competency Requirements

Essential –

 At least 3-4year experience in architecting solution leveraging GCP IaaS services &

GCP products & Services with an overall 12+ years of experience of hard-core

infrastructure consulting

 GCP Certification - Associate Cloud Engineer/Professional Cloud Architect/

Professional Cloud Developer

 In depth knowledge of key GCP services – GCE, GKE, GAE, GCS, Cloud SQL, VPC,

Resource Manager, StackDriver, Cloud CDN, Cloud IAM, GSuite(good to have)

Infrastructure as Code etc.

 Good exposure to Google BigData & ML platform – like BigTable, BigQuer,

Dataproc/Dataflow/ML API’s etc. (good to have)

 In-depth knowledge of design, implementation, engineering, automation and

devops implementation, service operation and service improvement initiatives

 On premise/other cloud providers to GCP cloud migration using cloud migration

tools like Velostrata/Sureline/Cloud Endure etc.

 In depth knowledge of GCP SKD/API tools like gcloud, gutils, kubeclt etc.

 In depth knowledge of automation & configuration management tools like GCP

native tool - deployment manager and third party tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef,

Salt etc

 Cloud strategy assessment and definition

 CI and CD using Jenkins, Ansible, Python, Shell scripting, Change management, GCP

Cloud product & Services knowledge and prod support activities

 At least 2 - 3 years of experience using DevOps Tools, Python, Dockers

 Knowledge about CI and CD using GIT, Jenkins, Ansible, JIRA ..etc

 Strong understanding of UNIX/Windows Operating system and adept in any of the

scripting languages like PowerShell, shell, awk, perl etc.

 Understanding and experience on handling of servers like IIS, Tomcat, Apache

 Defining deployment standards for development team & reviewing delivered build

packages for validating the required standards, Automation Architect

 Understand Agile methodologies and software development lifecycle process.

 Understanding of container technology and container orchestration platforms.

 Knowledge of best practices and market trends pertaining to Cloud and overall

industry to provide thought leadership (seminars, whitepapers etc.,) and mentor

team to build necessary competency

 Advise the customer executives on their cloud strategy roadmap, improvements,

alignment and further improvements.

 Proven experience assessing clients’ workloads and technology landscape for Cloud

suitability, develop business case and Cloud adoption roadmap

 Proven knowledge of leading Cloud Management Platform and orchestration tools

 Proven knowledge of evaluating the GCP hosting/consumption charges and

optimization of the charges

 Experience in defining new architectures and ability to drive project from

architecture standpoint

 Ability to quickly establish credibility and trustworthiness within key executive

stakeholders in client organization;

 Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills;

 Ability to quickly produce PowerPoint slides which are both content rich, succinct

and visually appealing;

Preferred –

 Knowledge and preferably working experience of other Cloud services such as AWS,

Azure, IBM Softlayer, Rackspace, Private Clouds

 Cloud Industry trends and GCP vs other cloud platform feature capabilities

 Understanding GCP partner ecosystems

 Experience in Managing delivery in Global Delivery Model with Onsite (client site)/

offshore resources

Additional skills

Besides the professional qualifications of the candidates we place great importance in addition to

various forms personality profile. These include

· High analytical skills

· A high degree of initiative and flexibility

· High customer orientation

· High quality awareness

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills