
GCP GKE Architect
Minor Hotels Europe and Americas
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Atlanta • New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $86,900 - $192,460 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
BigQueryCloudFirewallsGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesMicroservicesRedisSQLTerraform
About the role
- Configure log-based metrics such as error rate, latency, and memory usage, along with retention policies and export settings.
- Monitor health metrics including latency, error rate, CPU/memory utilization, and API response times.
- Track user traffic patterns and analyze system usage.
- Create unified dashboards in Looker Studio or Grafana to present consolidated views of multiple services.
- Integrate billing data, usage metrics, and error dashboards for holistic monitoring.
- Define Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
- Provide guidance and decision trees for choosing the appropriate GCP datastore (Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Firestore, Bigtable, BigQuery) based on latency, consistency, schema flexibility, global scalability, and cost.
- Advise on selecting between Kubernetes and Platform-as-a-Service (GKE, Cloud Run, App Engine, Cloud Functions) considering application complexity, control requirements, scalability, and team skill set.
Requirements
- Senior candidate with 10+ year of relevant experience
- Experience developing architecture patterns for
- -Web application frontends, RESTful APIs, Backend services using Cloud SQL or Cloud Spanner, Stateless app deployments utilizing GKE, Cloud Run, or App Engine, CI/CD integration points, caching layers such as Redis, and queue-based microservices with Pub/Sub or Cloud Tasks
- Set up comprehensive monitoring and logging solutions for Merchandising Apps, leveraging Cloud Monitoring, Logging, Error Reporting, and Trace.
- Implement centralized dashboards using Cloud Monitoring Workspace or Grafana with a BigQuery backend.
- Create log sinks to BigQuery or Pub/Sub for data processing and retention.
- Develop reusable Terraform modules for - Compute resources (GCE, Cloud Run, GKE), IAM policies, Projects, Service Accounts, Cloud SQL and Spanner databases, VPCs, Subnets, Load Balancers, Firewalls, Maintain GitOps workflows for Terraform.
- Design and deploy CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build and GitHub Actions.
- Design and implement VPC and Shared VPC architectures.
- Configure and manage Load Balancers (Global, Regional, HTTPS, Internal).
- Set up VPC Service Controls to protect against data exfiltration.
Benefits
- Flexible work
- Healthcare including dental, vision, mental health, and well-being programs
- Financial well-being programs such as 401(k) and Employee Share Ownership Plan
- Paid time off and paid holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Family building benefits like adoption assistance, surrogacy, and cryopreservation
- Social well-being benefits like subsidized back-up child/elder care and tutoring
- Mentoring, coaching and learning programs
- Employee Resource Groups
- Disaster Relief
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
log-based metricserror ratelatencymemory usageService Level IndicatorsService Level ObjectivesService Level AgreementsTerraformCI/CDVPC