Infrastructure Architect

Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- 3 years of experience with Cloud infrastructure design, network architecture design and implementation, Kubernetes, Cloud security or logging and monitoring.
- 3 years of experience in client-facing roles, troubleshooting technical issues and working with engineering, business teams or customers.
- Experience with two or more disciplines on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) such as Google Kubernetes Engine and Google Cloud VMware Engine migration, network design, data migration strategies, Virtual Machine migration to Google Compute Engine.
- Experience in setting up Google Cloud foundations with networking and security setup.

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience in setting up end-to-end Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Ability to work in a changing and collaborative environment.
- Excellent communication, presentation and consulting skills.

About the job

The Google Cloud Consulting Professional Services team guides customers through the moments that matter most in their cloud journey to help businesses thrive. We help customers transform and evolve their business through the use of Google's global network, web-scale data centers, and software infrastructure. As part of an innovative team in this rapidly growing business, you will help shape the future of businesses of all sizes and use technology to connect with customers, employees, and partners.

In this role, you will assume the responsibility of assisting customers in establishing secure foundations and designing available, low latency, performing, and secure infrastructure solutions on the Google Cloud Platform. You will collaborate on customer's infrastructure and data migrations, as well as modernization projects, while resolving any potential platform or product tests. You will possess an understanding of Google Cloud infrastructure products and associated security controls. You will be tasked with traveling to customer sites to deploy solutions and facilitate workshops aimed at educating and empowering customers. You will maintain a relationship with product management and product engineering teams, with the goal of driving excellence within the product offerings.Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

- Engage in effort with stakeholders to interpret client requirements, providing recommendations for solution architectures, and offering consultative services.
- Collaborate with customer technical leads, client managers, and partners to plan and execute cloud migration projects, promote trust and become an advisor to decision-makers throughout the engagement.
- Work with Google Google Cloud Platform (GCP) specialists, product development teams, and engineering divisions to consolidate best practices and insights into solutions and accessible assets.
- Engage with Google Cloud business representatives, partners, and customer technical stakeholders to oversee the management of migration scope, priorities, deliverables, risks/issues, and timelines for migrations.
- Provide solutions and execute the deployment of cloud-based distributed infrastructure solutions in accordance with customer requirements and industry best practices for implementation.