GKE/GCP Architect

Job description

GCP/GKE Architect/Infra

Experience: 8 to 10 Years

Job Type: Contractual

Location: Remote (Willing to travel to Bangalore, Occasionally)

Interested candidates can directly reach out at or

Skill to Evaluate: ITIL Certified, GCP-certified-solution-architect, GKE, Architecture, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ci/Cd, Firewall Configuration, Python, Shell Scripting, Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Google Cloud Architect.

Job Title/Role: GCP & GKE Staff Engineer

Primary Skill: Cloud-Infrastructure-Google Cloud Platform

Minimum work experience: 8+ yrs

Total Experience: 8+ Years

Must have GCP Solution Architect Certification & GKE

Technical Qualification/ Knowledge:

• Expertise in assessment, designing and implementing GCP solutions including aspects like compute, network, storage, identity, security, DR/business continuity strategy, migration, templates, cost optimization, PowerShell, Terraforms, Ansible etc.
  
  
• Must have GCP Solution Architect Certification
• Should have prior experience in executing large complex cloud transformation programs including discovery, assessment, business case creation, design, build, migration planning and migration execution
• Should have prior experience in using industry leading or native discovery, assessment and migration tools
• Good knowledge on the GCP technologies and associated components and variations
• Cloud Storage, Cloud Storage for Firebase, Persistant Disk, Local SSD, Filestore , Transfer Service
• Virtual Private Network (VPC), Cloud DNS, Cloud Interconnect, Cloud VPN Gateway, Network Load Balancing, Global load balancing, Firewall rules, Cloud Armor, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner SQL, Cloud Bigtable
• Design of clients Cloud environments with a focus mainly on GCP and demonstrate Technical Cloud Architectural knowledge.
  
  
• Playing a vital role in the design of production, staging, QA and development Cloud Infrastructures running in 24x7 environments.
  
  
• Should have a deep understanding of IaaS and PaaS services offered on cloud platforms and understand how to use them together to build complex solutions.
  
  
• Ensure that all cloud solutions follow security and compliance controls, including data sovereignty.
  
  
• Collaborate with application architects and DevOps to modernize infrastructure as a service (IaaS) application to Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Create solutions that support a DevOps approach for delivery and operations of services
• Interact with and advise business representatives of the application regarding functional and non-functional requirements
• Create proof-of-concepts to demonstrate viability of solutions under consideration
• Develop enterprise level conceptual solutions and sponsor consensus/approval for global applications.
  
  
• Have a working knowledge of other architecture disciplines including application, database, infrastructure, and enterprise architecture.
  
  
• Ability to identify and gather requirements to define an architectural solution which can be successfully built and operate on GCP
• Ability to conclude high level and low level design for the GCP platform which may also include data center design as necessary
• Capabilities to provide GCP operations and deployment guidance and best practices throughout the lifecycle of a project
• Understanding the significance of the different metrics for monitoring, their threshold values and should be able to take necessary corrective measures based on the thresholds
• Knowledge on automation to reduce the number of incidents or the repetitive incidents are preferred
• Good knowledge on the cloud center operation, monitoring tools, backup solution

GKE

• Set up monitoring and logging to troubleshoot a cluster, or debug a containerized application.

• Manage Kubernetes Objects

• Declarative and imperative paradigms for interacting with the Kubernetes API.

• Managing Secrets

• Managing confidential settings data using Secrets.

• Configure load balancing, port forwarding, or setup firewall or DNS configurations to access applications in a cluster.

• Configure networking for your cluster.

• Hands-on experience with terraform.
  
  Ability to write reusable terraform modules.
  
  
• Hands-on Python and Unix shell scripting is required.
  
  
• understanding of CI/CD Pipelines in a globally distributed environment using Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, Docker registry.
  
  
• Experience with GCP Services and writing cloud functions.
  
  
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing Kubernetes infrastructure with Terraform Enterprise.
  
  Ability to write reusable terraform modules.
  
  
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and/or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) is a plus
• Experience using Docker within container orchestration platforms such as GKE.
  
  
• Knowledge of setting up splunk
• Knowledge of Spark in GKE
• Certification: GCP solution architect & GKE

Required Skill Profession

Computer Occupations