Google Cloud Architect

job summary:

• Provide expert level guidance on Cloud design decisions, standards, and operational practices
• Define and govern best practices in Cloud platforms engineering, cloud operations, cloud-native application development, and cloud platform governance
• Work with teams that have high application complexity to provide guidance on cloud platforms, and escalate risks and issues as appropriate
• Communicate problems and challenges to drive discussions across key stakeholders -engineering, operations, developers, and leadership

• 5 years of direct experience working with a variety of enterprise and cloud technology systems, designing solutions, or developing business applications
• Hands on experience implementing google cloud from on-prem (teradata, netezza, hadoop, etc)
• 2-5 years of GCP experience is required
• Google Professional Cloud Architect Certification a plus
• Working knowledge of Configuration Management (Chef, Puppet or Ansible) and Continuous Integration Tools (Jenkins preferred)
• Hands on Terraform experience
• Knowledge of the GCP network architecture including designing VPN solutions between regions and subnets
• Knowledge with the GCP compute architecture including the development of machine templates and blueprints
• Production experience to build scalable systems (load balancers, memcached, controller/agent architectures)
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, etc)
• Other Open Source tools used in the infrastructure space (Packer, Terraform, Vagrant, etc.)
• Experience migrating infrastructure and applications using Google Cloud Services
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred

• Provide expert level guidance on Cloud design decisions, standards, and operational practices
• Define and govern best practices in Cloud platforms engineering, cloud operations, cloud-native application development, and cloud platform governance
• Work with teams that have high application complexity to provide guidance on cloud platforms, and escalate risks and issues as appropriate
• Communicate problems and challenges to drive discussions across key stakeholders -engineering, operations, developers, and leadership

• 5 years of direct experience working with a variety of enterprise and cloud technology systems, designing solutions, or developing business applications
• Hands on experience implementing google cloud from on-prem (teradata, netezza, hadoop, etc)
• Playbook creation
• 2-5 years of GCP experience is required
• Google Professional Cloud Architect Certification a plus
• Working knowledge of Configuration Management (Chef, Puppet or Ansible) and Continuous Integration Tools (Jenkins preferred)
• Hands on Terraform experience
• Knowledge of the GCP network architecture including designing VPN solutions between regions and subnets
• Knowledge with the GCP compute architecture including the development of machine templates and blueprints
• Production experience to build scalable systems (load balancers, memcached, controller/agent architectures)
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, etc)
• Other Open Source tools used in the infrastructure space (Packer, Terraform, Vagrant, etc.)
• Experience migrating infrastructure and applications using Google Cloud Services
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred

• Experience level:
• Education: Bachelors