Cloud Architect Role Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud Architect to design, execute, and support IT cloud solutions in Google Cloud Platform. The ideal candidate will have 13+ years of IT experience and 7+ years of architecture experience in designing, executing, and supporting IT cloud solutions.
A key requirement for this role is having a Google Cloud Professional Certification. The candidate must also possess expertise in provisioning GCP resources via Terraform, as well as strong knowledge of GCP services such as Cloud Services Platform, Google Kubernetes Engine, Compute Engine, Google Cloud Load Balancing, Storage, Security, Monitoring, etc.
In addition to the above skills, the ideal candidate should have solid foundation in programming languages like Java, SQL, Python, or Node.js, with expertise in containerization, orchestration tools like Kubernetes, and continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. Furthermore, the candidate should be able to automate provisioning of networks and access (Organization, Routes/Firewalls, IAM, Policy).
The successful candidate will work closely with cross-functional teams to implement cloud-based solutions that meet business requirements. A background in security, identity, and access management, key management, access controls, and security protocols, network routing, firewalls, ACL's, and cloud IaaS components on GCP will also be beneficial.