Cloud Architect - Google Cloud Platform

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Currently, we are looking for Cloud Architect proficient in Google Cloud Platform who will join our team in Poznan.

• Dealing with the customer as single point of contact. Heading all the technical discussions and provide solution to the Customer on the Technical front or for any issues in the Environment.
• Auditing the existing environment and providing solution along with design and implementation plan.
• Creating technical design and architecture documents, review with various stakeholders for design and solution approval for implementation
• Knowledge and experience in designing CICD pipelines using GCP Devops solutions and 3rd party tools viz. Jenkins, bitbucket, Github, CI etc.,
• Setting up web components like IIS/Apache on Windows/Unix environments.
• Troubleshooting the problems related to webserver/Appserver configuration issues and performance issues.
• Creating/Renewing SSL Certificates for .Net/Java Applications on the servers
• Hosting containerized applications using Dockers with Jenkins and GitHub integrations.
• Handling common database procedures such as provisioning of the database, upgrade and refresh staging database environments with production data when requested.
• Managing database users, generating various reports by querying from the database, modifying the database structure as per the information sharing by the application developers.

• Strong Technical Skills in GCP with Terraform along with Webhosting,
• Knowledge and experience in Google Cloud Platform involving compute, storage, network and database solutions,
• Analytical skills in understanding the business and technical requirement and propose appropriate GCP solution to meet those requirements,
• Hands on experience in implementing VPC network, Cloud Armor, Load balancers, Cloud VPN, Cloud Router, NAT gateway etc.,
• Proven experience in implementing Cloud IAM with principle of least privilege, security hardening of cloud infrastructure in line with CIS, NIST standards,
• Advancement in provisioning of GCP infrastructure with Infrastructure as a Code approach preferably using Terraform,
• Knowledge of Cloud Operations suite, and hands on experience in implementing Cloud Monitoring, Logging to ensure site reliability and performance of hosted applications,
• Implementation expertise in Google Kubernetes Engine to host containerized workloads with high availability,
• Ability to create and customize Kubernetes manifests for creating deployments, services, and ingress objects,
• Advancement in blue green deployment, canary release, A/B testing methodologies to implement production grade CI/CD pipelines,
• Implementation experience in GCP managed database and storage solutions such as Cloud SQL, Fire store, cloud storage buckets,
• Knowledgeable about implementation of API gateways using Cloud Endpoint, Apigee; OpenAPI specification and framework,
• Experience in monitoring and management of infrastructure and application services for optimal capacity utilization and performance,
• Implementation and performance tuning of RedHat, Centos, Windows 2008 Server environment for client’s global operations.

• Competitive salary with cafeteria benefits and bonuses,
• Opportunity to be part of a rapidly expanding global organization,
• Pleasant and inspiring working atmosphere,
• Professional development and clear career path,
• Training & development opportunities,
• Private healthcare and additional life insurance,
• Employee volunteering programs and opportunities,
• Inclusion and diversity in practice,
• Employee referral program in place.