Infrastructure Architect

Job Title / Role: GCP Solution Architect

Band :C1/C2

Total Experience: 10+ Years

Technical Qualification/ Knowledge:

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

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

Anthos Application Platform

Compute Engine , Compute Engine Managed Instance Groups , Kubernetes

, , , , , Transfer Service

Virtual Private Network (VPC), , Cloud Interconnect , , , , ,

, Resource Manager , Multi-factor Authentication ,

Cloud Billing , Cloud Console ,

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 client's 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 customer's 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

Roles and Responsibilities:

5+ year of experience in GCP based design (HLD and LLD) of the different components to meet the customer and business expectation in a cost effective manner

Must have performed cloud architecting job for significant volume of application deployment in cloud

3+ years of hands-on experience operating GCP-based applications, Compute Engine instances, Storage, backup, network configuration, automation, DR, backup and recovery

5 or more years equivalent experience in the data center or cloud operation in any of the following areas

OS administration (either Windows or Linux/ Unix)

Storage + backup management (Enterprise level storages)

Administration of the virtualization platform

Network administration

Good experience in designing DR and HA solutions and hands on experience for deploying those

Experience on enterprise level IT infrastructure monitoring

Ability to understand the design from the shared design document, and plan for the implementation / configuration

Implement and Configure end to end all aspects of GCP as per design

Configuration of Disaster Recovery design within and outside GCP cloud

Demonstrating "User Acceptance Tests" for all the GCP Components at Infrastructure layer including Compute, Storage, Backup, DR, Network, Security and Load Balancing.

Scripting for automating the repeatable tasks (Provisioning, Monitoring, Backup, DR-Sync and image Creation).

Implementation and Monitoring of Security Aspects of GCP (Key Pairs, Virtual LAN, Security Access)

Helping project team for analysis of the application and infrastructure assessment for cloud migration and cloud suitability

Troubleshooting the GCP related issues within stipulated time frame

Researching on new tool sets as needed to meet the customer and organizational requirement to deliver on time and within planned cost

Ability to learn and adopt new technologies

Ability to perform the tasks stated above independently

Certification: GCP solution architect

Process/ Quality Knowledge:

Must have clear knowledge on ITIL based service delivery

ITIL certification is desired

Knowledge on quality

Knowledge on security processes

Soft Skills:

Excellent communication skill and capability to work directly with global customers

Excellent documentation skill

Strong technical leadership skill to drive solutions

Focused on quality/cost/time of deliverables

Customer focused

Timely and accurate communication

Need to demonstrate the ownership for the technical issues and engage the right stakeholders for timely resolution

Flexibility to learn and lead other technology areas like other public cloud technologies, private cloud, automation

Good reporting skill

Willing to work in different time zones as per project requirement

Good attitude to work in team and as individual contributor based on the project and situation

Focused, result oriented and self-motivating

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