GCP Architect

Job description:

• Designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and secure GCP-based solutions to meet clients' business requirements
• Advising clients on the best practices and optimal use of GCP services and features
• Building and maintaining GCP infrastructure, including virtual machines, storage, and networking components
• Automating deployment and management of GCP resources using tools like Terraform and Ansible
• Monitoring and troubleshooting GCP infrastructure, applications, and services
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to design and implement end-to-end solutions that leverage GCP services
• Staying up to date with GCP offerings and new features, and recommending improvements to existing solutions
• Ensuring compliance with security and regulatory requirements
• Developing and maintaining documentation related to GCP architecture, configurations, and processes
• Knowledge and experience in Google Cloud Platform involving compute, storage, network, and database solutions
• Strong analytical skills in understanding the business and technical requirement and propose appropriate GCP solution to meet those requirements
• Experience in creating technical design and architecture documents, work with review board for design and solution approval for implementation
• Strong knowledge, design, and implementation experience in Google Kubernetes Engine to host containerized workloads at scale and with high availability for production apps
• Experience in GKE cluster sizing, network configurations and security controls for resilient and secure container runtime environment
• Ability to create and customize Kubernetes manifests for creating deployments, services, and ingress objects
• Experience in Microservices deployments using Istio or any other service mesh
• Knowledge and experience in designing CICD pipelines using GCP DevOPS solutions and 3rd party tools viz. Jenkins, bitbucket, GitHub, Travis CI etc.,
• Knowledge in Cloud Operations suite, and hands on experience in implementing Cloud Monitoring, Logging to ensure site reliability and performance of hosted applications
• Experience in implementing Cloud IAM with principle of least privilege, security hardening of cloud infrastructure in line with CIS, NIST standards
• Experience in provisioning of GCP infrastructure with Infrastructure as a Code approach preferably using Terraform
• Implementation experience in GCP managed database and storage solutions such as Cloud SQL, Fire store, cloud storage buckets

Preferred Certification:

• Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect or Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Engineer