Description
Position Overview:
Create a well-informed cloud strategy and maintain the adaptation process
Evaluate cloud applications, hardware, and software
Identify the best cloud architecture solutions to meet the company's needs and business requirements
Lead the adoption of new cloud technologies and establish best practices for them
Design cloud infrastructures running in 24/7 environments
Design and implement IaaS and PaaS solutions
Develop enterprise cloud guidelines and automations
Oversee all aspects of the GCP environment, including provisioning, scaling, monitoring, and security
Develop and organize cloud systems
Implement systems, solutions, and processes to manage cloud costs, scalability, redundancy, and continuous validation
Manage and monitor cloud-based applications and services
Collaborate with IT security to monitor cloud privacy
Collaborate with architecture, DevOps, data, and integration teams to ensure best practices are followed throughout cloud adoption
Respond to technical issues
Provide thought leadership related to GCP and cloud infrastructure
Education
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field
Project Overview: This will be supporting Cloud Platform Strategy. They want to become cloud native primarily using AWS and GCP. They need to bring in a GCP Architect to help design the roadmap for the GCP foundation.
Team/Department: Cloud Platform Strategy
Responsibilities:
Create a well-informed cloud strategy and maintain the adaptation process
Evaluate cloud applications, hardware, and software
Identify the best cloud architecture solutions to meet the company's needs and business requirements
Lead the adoption of new cloud technologies and establish best practices for them
Design cloud infrastructures running in 24/7 environments
Design and implement IaaS and PaaS solutions
Develop enterprise cloud guidelines and automations
Oversee all aspects of the GCP environment, including provisioning, scaling, monitoring, and security
Develop and organize cloud systems
Implement systems, solutions, and processes to manage cloud costs, scalability, redundancy, and continuous validation
Manage and monitor cloud-based applications and services
Collaborate with IT security to monitor cloud privacy
Collaborate with architecture, DevOps, data, and integration teams to ensure best practices are followed throughout cloud adoption
Respond to technical issues
Provide thought leadership related to GCP and cloud infrastructure
Required Experience:
5+ years of experience in cloud architecture or systems engineering
Experience with identity management and networking segmentation across multiple VPC networks and projects
Experience leading large-scale network migrations to GCP
Experience establishing technical strategy and architecture at the enterprise level
Experience with one or more third-party networking products
Experience leading GCP Cloud project delivery
Experience working with infrastructure as code tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Terraform
Expertise in GCP services
Knowledge of security, identity, and access management
Knowledge of networking protocols such as TCP/IP and HTTP/S
Knowledge of network security design including segmentation, encryption, logging, and monitoring
Knowledge of network topologies, load balancing, and segmentation
Knowledge of programming languages including Python, Ruby, and JavaScript
Strong communication, presentation, and leadership skills