Application Modernization Cloud Consultant - IAC Terraform (7-9 yrs)

Job Description :

Google Cloud helps millions of employees and organizations empower their employees, serve their customers, and build what's next for their business - all with technology built in the cloud.

Our products are engineered for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware.

And our teams are dedicated to helping our customers - developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies - see the benefits of our technology come to life.

Role Description :

As an Application Modernisation Cloud Consultant, you will work directly with Google's most strategic customers on critical application development and modernization projects to help them transform their businesses.

- You will provide consulting, program management and technical expertise to customers while working with client executives and key technical leaders to drive adoption of modern application patterns and paradigms via Google's Cloud Platform.

- You will also work closely with key Google partners currently servicing top accounts to manage programs, deliver consulting services, and provide technical guidance and best practice expertise.

- You possess a broad skill set including software engineering, architecture design, distributed systems, container technologies, and deployment strategies.

- To be successful, you know how to navigate ambiguity, have extensive experience working with cloud technologies, have technical depth and enjoy working with client executives.

- You also possess excellent communication and project management skills.

- Travel approximately 30% of the time for client engagements.

- Work with customer development leads, client executives, and partners to manage and deliver successful, modern, cloud applications, becoming a trusted advisor to decision makers throughout the engagement.

- Work with internal specialists, product and engineering teams to package approaches, best practices and lessons learned into thought leadership, methodologies and published assets.

- Interact with sales, partners, and customer technical stakeholders to manage project scope, priorities, deliverables, risks/issues, and timelines for successful client outcomes.

- Advocate for customers needs to overcome adoption blockers and drive new feature development based on your field experience.

- Propose solution architectures and manage the deployment of cloud native application development solutions according to complex customer requirements and implementation best practices.

Must Have Skills/ Qualifications :

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.

- 7 years of experience demonstrating technical client service and/or delivering technical solutions.

- Advanced understanding of the software supply chain in an enterprise environment (software engineering, testing, CI/CD) and architecting, developing, or maintaining cloud solutions in containerized environments.

- Container and Platform Skills

- Containerization - De0oDocker, K8s, GKE, Kubernetes networking, Istio service mesh.

- Infra as Code - Terraform

- CICD - Common tooling and patterns

- Observability - common approaches for metrics and logging; this could be scoped to containerization.

- GCP Architect Certification

- Ability to speak and write in English fluently.

Preferred Good To Have Skills :

- Experience with highly available, scalable applications and distributed systems.

- Experience with software languages (Java, Go, JavaScript, Python, etc.) and building / architecting DevOps pipelines and familiarity with associated tools.

- Experience with detailed network, security, and system design in the deployment of virtual machines and containerized applications.

- Solution Architecture : EA related Awareness - Business Acumen

- Application Architecture : Microservices backend experience, front-end exposure

- Cloud-Native Design Patterns : Understanding patterns that are specific to cloud-based application refactoring and modernization

- API Management : Being well-versed in API gateways, design, security, and monitoring, since

- APIs are important in app modernization.

- Database skills from the developer perspective

- Integration Skills