Title: Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Architect
Location: Atlanta, GA(Hybrid)
Duration: 12+ Months
Position Overview: We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Architect to join our team. The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in building and optimizing our GCP environment, ensuring it is scalable, secure, and aligned with best practices. This role involves working closely with our cloud team to operationalize and make our GCP environment consumable, integrating Google’s reference architecture into our systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- GCP Environment Development: Lead the ongoing development and optimization of our GCP environment, which is currently 10 months into its build-out phase.
- Data Ingestion and Pipelines: Oversee the existing data ingestion processes and pipelines, ensuring they are efficient and reliable.
- DevOps Environment: Design and implement a robust DevOps environment to support our GCP infrastructure.
- Operationalization: Make the GCP environment consumable for various stakeholders by operationalizing the infrastructure and ensuring ease of use.
- Reference Architecture Integration: Utilize Google’s reference architecture to guide the integration of new components into our environment, ensuring scalability and adherence to best practices.
- Security: Implement and manage security components across the GCP environment, ensuring comprehensive protection of data and resources.
- Architectural Vision: Provide a 360-degree perspective on how systems should be architected, considering all aspects of the infrastructure.
- Team Collaboration: Work closely with our cloud team, which consists of technical resources proficient in GCP, to bridge the gap between design ideas and practical implementation.
- Best Practices: Develop and enforce best practices for deploying and managing GCP resources.
Qualifications:
- Proven experience as a GCP Architect or in a similar role.
- Strong understanding of GCP services and architecture.
- Experience with data ingestion and pipeline management.
- Proficiency in designing and implementing DevOps environments.
- Knowledge of Google’s reference architecture and best practices.
- Strong security acumen with experience in implementing security measures in cloud environments.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with a team.
Preferred Skills:
- Certification in Google Cloud Platform (e.g., Professional Cloud Architect).
- Experience with other cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure).
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).