GCP Solution Architect

Essential Job Functions:
Anthos Application Platform

• Compute Engine , Compute Engine Managed Instance Groups , Kubernetes
• Cloud Storage , Cloud Storage for Firebase , Persistant Disk , Local SSD , Filestore , Transfer Service
• Virtual Private Network (VPC), Cloud DNS , Cloud Interconnect , Cloud VPN Gateway , Network Load Balancing , Global load balancing , Firewall rules , Cloud Armor
• Cloud IAM , Resource Manager , Multi-factor Authentication , Cloud KMS
• Cloud Billing , Cloud Console , Stackdriver
• Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner SQL, Cloud Bigtable
• Cloud Run Container services, Kubernetes Engine (GKE) , Anthos Service Mesh , Cloud Functions , PowerShell on GCP
• Solid understanding and experience in cloud computing based services architecture, technical design and implementations including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
• Design of clients Cloud environments with a focus on mainly on GCP and demonstrate Technical Cloud Architectural knowledge.
• Playing a vital role in the design of production, staging, QA and development Cloud Infrastructures running in 24x7 environments.
• Delivery of customer Cloud Strategies, aligned with customers business objectives and with a focus on Cloud Migrations and DR strategies
• Nurture Cloud computing expertise internally and externally to drive Cloud Adoption
• Should have a deep understanding of IaaS and PaaS services offered on cloud platforms and understand how to use them together to build complex solutions.
• Ensure that all cloud solutions follow security and compliance controls, including data sovereignty.
• Deliver cloud platform architecture documents detailing the vision for how GCP infrastructure and platform services support the overall application architecture, interaction with application, database and testing teams for providing a holistic view to the customer.
• Collaborate with application architects and DevOps to modernize infrastructure as a service (IaaS) applications to Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Create solutions that support a DevOps approach for delivery and operations of services
• Interact with and advise business representatives of the application regarding functional and non-functional requirements
• Create proof-of-concepts to demonstrate viability of solutions under consideration
• Develop enterprise level conceptual solutions and sponsor consensus/approval for global applications.
• Have a working knowledge of other architecture disciplines including application, database, infrastructure, and enterprise architecture.
• Identify and implement best practices, tools and standards
• Provide consultative support to the DevOps team for production incidents
• Drive and support system reliability, availability, scale, and performance activities
• Evangelizes cloud automation and be a thought leader and expert defining standards for building and maintaining cloud platforms.
• Knowledgeable about Configuration management such as Chef/Puppet/Ansible.
• Automation skills using CLI scripting in any language (bash, perl, python, ruby, etc)
• Ability to develop a robust design to meet customer business requirement with scalability, availability, performance and cost effectiveness using GCP offerings
• Ability to identify and gather requirements to define an architectural solution which can be successfully built and operate on GCP
• Ability to conclude high level and low level design for the GCP platform which may also include data center design as necessary
• Capabilities to provide GCP operations and deployment guidance and best practices throughout the lifecycle of a project
• Understanding the significance of the different metrics for monitoring, their threshold values and should be able to take necessary corrective measures based on the thresholds
• Knowledge on automation to reduce the number of incidents or the repetitive incidents are preferred
• Good knowledge on the cloud center operation, monitoring tools, backup solution

Qualifications:

• Experience :- 8+ Year of relevant experience in GCP & minimum 3 years as Architect
• Shift Timing :– 24*7 Rotational (Weekly) Model
• Certification: GCP Solution Architect & GKE

MUST Have Mandatory skills

• Must have GCP Solution Architect Certificate (active)
• Total IT experience of over 12 Years & Must have relevant 8+ years of GCP
• Prior Architect experience of atleast 2-3 Years
• Should have expert level experience with Terraform & Kubernetes (GKE)
• Must have experience with Anthos Platform & Anthos Service Mesh

Technical

• Expertise in assessment, designing and implementing GCP solutions including aspects like compute, network, storage, identity, security , DR/business continuity strategy, migration , templates , cost optimization, PowerShell ,Terraforms, Ansible etc.. Must have GCP Solution Architect Certification
• Should have prior experience in executing large complex cloud transformation programs including discovery, assessment , business case creation , design , build , migration planning and migration execution
• Should have prior experience in using industry leading or native discovery, assessment and migration tools
• Good knowledge on the cloud technology, different patterns, deployment methods, compatibility of the applications
• Good knowledge on the GCP technologies and associated components and variations

GKE

• Set up monitoring and logging to troubleshoot a cluster, or debug a containerized application.
• Manage Kubernetes Objects
• Declarative and imperative paradigms for interacting with the Kubernetes API.
• Managing Secrets
• Managing confidential settings data using Secrets.
• Configure load balancing, port forwarding, or setup firewall or DNS configurations to access applications in a cluster.
• Configure networking for your cluster.
• Hands-on experience with terraform. Ability to write reusable terraform modules.
• Hands-on Python and Unix shell scripting is required.
• understanding of CI/CD Pipelines in a globally distributed environment using Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, Docker registry.
• Experience with GCP Services and writing cloud functions.
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing Kubernetes infrastructure with Terraform Enterprise. Ability to write reusable terraform modules.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and/or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) is a plus
• Experience using Docker within container orchestration platforms such as GKE.
• Knowledge of setting up splunk
• Knowledge of Spark in GKE

Process/ Quality Knowledge:

• Must have clear knowledge on ITIL based service delivery
• ITIL certification is desired
• Knowledge on quality
• Knowledge on security processes