Remote - Senior Cloud Architect on GCP

Role: Senior Cloud Architect on GCP

Location: Northern Virginia

Remote flexibility but prefers local to DC candidates

Key Responsibilities

• Develop cloud solutions based on well-architected framework concepts
• Collaborate with enterprise architects, cloud solutions architects, cloud engineers, program/project managers, and client stakeholders to manage and maintain cloud environments as per client s requirements
• Implement cloud solutions that are highly secure, resilient, fault-tolerant, and compliant
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues in cloud environments and provide solutions, root cause analysis and standard operating procedures
• Develop cloud native solutions, migrate workloads to cloud, DevSecOps, IaC, and SRE automation
• Develop unit tests wherever applicable
• Develop repeatable solutions to drive operational efficiencies
• Gather requirements from the clients and dissect them into user stories and tasks.
• Provide technical guidance and assistance to other team members
• Participate in code reviews and technical design sessions
• Create architecture, security, user guide documentation
• Identify and implement cloud optimization strategies to reduce costs for the customer workloads
• Work closely with architects in creating architecture diagrams and maintaining relevancy of the artifacts
• Work collaboratively with other team members in designing and problem solving
• Participate in all agile ceremonies

Required skills and qualifications

• 12+ years of Hands-on experience developing and managing cloud-native solutions in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Bachelor s degree in computer science or related field
• Hands-on experiences with core cloud services (storage, networking, firewalls, DNS, databases, applications, data analytics, compute, container services) in GCP.
• 6-8 years of Hands-on experience in programming and scripting technologies like Java, Python, Groovy, Shell, Go
• 5-8 years of Hands-on experience in designing and developing IaC automation using terraform
• 5-8 years Hands-on experience designing and developing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins Pipelines or other CI tools
• Hands-on experience in developing utility scripts and tools using python or shell
• Hands-on experience in using DevOps tool set Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, Sonar, Fortify, Spinnaker etc.
• Experience in building and deploying docker images
• Knowledge of implementing Disaster Recovery solutions on-premises or cloud
• Experience working with agile tools preferably Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence
• Experience developing unit tests for pipelines
• Knowledge of 12 factor app methodology

Preferred skills and qualifications

• Master s degree in computer science or related field
• Experience in designing and developing AI/ML solutions
• Experience in designing, developing Kubernetes solutions
• Experience working on Multicloud implementations
• Experience in building hybrid network connectivity in GCP
• Experience in building secure architectures on GCP
• GCP Networking, Security OR DevOps Engineer certifications