Cloud Gcp Systems Architect

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create system architecture documentation, work/feature-breakdown structure document and other related artifacts with deep technical details
• Perform client-facing technical consultancy roles, contribute to knowledge base, work in Team Lead role for small-medium sized teams, etc
• Assess the existing maturity of client in Cloud and DevOps space, perform gap analysis and provide baseline solution
• Configuration Management tool (Ansible/Puppet/Salt)
• Containerized deployment and orchestration

REQUIREMENTS

• Should have 10 to 16years of overall experience with minimum 5 years of production experience on any public cloud
• Must have excellent communication skills
• Thorough understanding of Security, Networks, Hybrid Cloud
• Good understanding of GCP Architecture, Deployment architectures
• Basic understanding/exposure to SRE
• Design and implement solutions for clients considering the on-premise infrastructure and Google Cloud Platform
• Possesses Leadership traits, and has lead teams for at-least 2 years
• Demonstrated experience in architecting, developing or maintaining production-grade cloud solutions in public clouds such as Google Cloud platform
• Customer facing experience of discovery, assessment, execution, and operations
• Exposure to Cloud Migration and Migration Strategies
• Design and engineer scalable, reliable, and resilient software running in the cloud
• Analyzing and monitoring performance bottlenecks and key metrics to optimize software and system performance.as well as providing ana- lytics and forecasts for cloud capacity, troubleshooting analysis, and uptime
• Should have strong experience of a couple of years, in leading DevOps team and planning, defining DevOps roadmap and executing as per the same along with the team
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation communication skills, with a focus on translating business requirements into technology solutions and vice versa
• Strong capability to mentor System Engineers 1-4
• Strong Delivery fundamentals
• Has experience to contribute to organization growth and take up one or more additional responsibilities
• Interviewing , Assessing System Engineers
• Running Technology Incubation Labs
• Participating in Pre-Sales tasks
• Undertaking engineering excellence activities/events
• Should have experience in GCP Services - Compute(CE, AE, CF, GKE, CR, pub/Sub), Storage, Data tools, Cloud Build
• Should have experience in GCP Networking fundamentals (VPC, VPN, Peering, Interconnect)
• Should have experience in GCP Security fundamentals (IAM, Service Accounts, Workload Iden- tity)
• Should have experience in Container Orchestration
• Should have experience in Container Registry - GCR
• Experience in setting up of Load Balancer, Auto Scaling, databases, firewall rules etc
• Working knowledge of Backup and Recovery methodology and imple- mentations on GCP
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code Tooling like Terraform
• Experience with at least one Configuration management tool like (An- sible, Packer, Salt, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
• Experience with Containerization like Dockers and Kubernetes
• Experience with windows or Linux/Unix administration and Unix shell scripting (bash)
• Experience with at least one Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Pipelines and tooling (GitLab, Jenkins, Bamboo, Circle CI etc.)
• Experience with migrating/modernizing various workloads into GCP
• Has understanding of automated infrastructure discovery using the GCP native tools
• Experience with leveraging GCP migration toolset such as Migration Center, Database Migration Service, Cloud Foundation Toolkit, etc
• Knowledge of modernizing the application hosted on VM/servers to container-based deployment architecture
• Optimize Total Cost of Ownership by leveraging the right services in the GCP landscape

NICE TO HAVE

• Coding with modern languages like Python, Groovy
• Application development experience

WE OFFER

• Opportunity to work on technical challenges that may impact across geographies
• Vast opportunities for self-development: online university, knowledge sharing opportunities globally, learning opportunities through external certifications
• Opportunity to share your ideas on international platforms
• Sponsored Tech Talks & Hackathons
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
• Possibility to relocate to any EPAM office for short and long-term projects
• Focused individual development
• Benefit package
• Health benefits
• Retirement benefits
• Paid time off
• Flexible benefits
• Forums to explore beyond work passion (CSR, photography, painting, sports, etc.)