Cloud Architect – Contract
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Build a trusted advisory relationship with strategic accounts and engage with management.
- Act as a technical subject matter expert, particularly regarding the Google Cloud ecosystem for business users, providing clear and concise explanations of complex concepts.
- Identify customer priorities, technical objections, and design strategies encompassing the Google ecosystem to deliver business growth and resolve blockers.
- Lead requirements gathering and project scoping.
- Solution design, problem-solving, and architecture diagramming.
- Provide domain expertise around public cloud and enterprise technology, and effectively promote Google Cloud with clients, at conferences, and online.
- Provide technical expertise to the team on continuous integration/continuous delivery, infrastructure, monitoring, alerting, and security.
- Provide recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure needed to implement a complete solution for clients.
- Assist in delivering technical solutions to meet customer functional needs and improve service reliability, including CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure builds/migrations.
- Provide Engineer-to-Engineer and Architect-to-Engineer support, including whiteboard sessions and informal Q&A.
- Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as required.
Requirements
- 5+ years of GCP experience is a must. Experience in other clouds is beneficial.
- Proven experience in building, architecting, designing, and implementing globally distributed cloud-based systems, with a strong understanding of API-first design principles and API management platforms like Apigee.
- Extensive experience with security (zero trust) and networking in cloud environments
- Capable of advising and implementing CI/CD practices to clients using tools such as GitHub, GitLab, Cloud Build, and Cloud Deploy and concepts such as GitOps and GitFlow.
- Experience in containerizing workloads using Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and Artifact Registry.
- Knowledge of technology solutions and ability to learn emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.
- Ability to work cross-functionally, engage and influence audiences.
- Excellent organizational skills and customer-facing communication.
- Proficiency in documentation and knowledge transfer using remote meetings, written documents, and technical diagrams slide decks.
- Experience in implementing hybrid connectivity using VPN or Cloud Interconnect is a plus.
- Nice to have: 2 Google Cloud professional certifications (GCP Architect Certification, other certifications for Google, Kubernetes, or Terraform a plus.)
- A Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering, Data Science, Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Computer Science, or a related field.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Professional development
- Flexible working arrangements
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
GCPAPI managementCI/CDKubernetesDockerHelmGitHubGitLabCloud BuildCloud Deploy
Soft Skills
advisory relationshipproblem-solvingorganizational skillscustomer-facing communicationcross-functional collaborationinfluencingtechnical expertisedocumentationknowledge transferpresentation skills
Certifications
GCP Architect CertificationKubernetes certificationTerraform certification