Cloud Practice Architect

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver proof-of-concept projects, technical workshops, and lead implementation projects. 
• Focus on key customer solutions such as web applications, enterprise applications, archiving and disaster recovery, education, and government. 
• Create, articulate, and position an innovative and compelling value proposition so that customer executives clearly realize the benefits and transformation value of migrating to GCP. 
• Define and execute technical migration and modernization strategies by working with highly technical teams.
• Deliver modern architectures such as micro services and event driven architectures using managed services and cloud native capabilities. 
• Engage with development, infrastructure, security, and IT operations teams at the customer and identifying repeatable patterns and architectures for cloud migration.
• Identify platform improvements, influencing future iterations of the GCP platform. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field.
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting experience in applications or infrastructures.
• 5+ years within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, Automation, and operations).
• 3+ yrs experience in a Solutions Architect, Enterprise Architect, or Lead Architect role leading the discovery, design, and construction of full stack custom and commercial off the shelf applications. 
• Multi-tier distributed architecture experience within IT consulting, IT operations, application development or support to include the following: experience migrating, architecting, operating on premises or cloud-based solutions, or experience transforming legacy IT solutions, and working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies. 
• Experience architecting, designing, migrating workloads to the public cloud. 
• Deep level understanding of various migration techniques such as re-host, refactor, re-architect, re-platform, repurchase, etc. 
• Expert Knowledge of Google services such as compute, GKE, GCE, Spanner, GCS, Networking and Security. 
• Deep understanding of GCP Ecosystem.
• In depth understanding of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing and firewalls. 
• Extensive expertise in designing systems with high availability, resilience, and fault tolerance, incorporating load balancing, horizontal/vertical scaling, and ensuring continuous availability.  
• Strong track record of implementing GCP services in a variety of distributed computing environments. 
• Experience in infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g., Shell, Python, Ruby, PowerShell).
• Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative Methodologies. 
• Scripting and/or coding skills (Examples include but are not limited to: Java (OR) Python (OR) Terraform, PowerShell (OR) Bash).  
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Salt, Chef, Puppet. 
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) frameworks and tools such as, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Gitlab CI, Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy. 
• Direct hands-on experience leading the design, development, and deployment of business software at scale or recent hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience. 
• Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (eg. security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA etc.).
• Experience in a range of migration discovery, profiling, migration, automation, and operations technologies and tools. 
• Willingness to travel to customer locations as needed. 


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