GCP Solution Architect

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NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.

We are currently seeking a GCP Solution Architect to join our team in Hyderabad, Telangana (IN-TG), India (IN).

Job Description:

Primary Skill: Cloud-Infrastructure-Google Cloud Platform

Minimum work experience: 8+ yrs

Total Experience: 8+ Years

Must have GCP Solution Architect Certification  & GKE

Mandatory Skills:

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 cloud technology, different patterns, deployment methods, compatibility of the applications

Good knowledge on the GCP technologies and associated components and variations

Anthos Application Platform

Compute Engine , Compute Engine Managed Instance Groups , Kubernetes

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 IAM , Resource Manager , Multi-factor Authentication , Cloud KMS

Cloud Billing , Cloud Console , Stackdriver

Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner SQL, Cloud Bigtable

Cloud Run Container services, Kubernetes Engine (GKE) , Anthos Service Mesh , Cloud Functions , PowerShell on GCP

Solid understanding and experience in cloud computing based services architecture, technical design and implementations including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.

Design of clients Cloud environments with a focus on 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.

Delivery of customer Cloud Strategies, aligned with customers business objectives and with a focus on Cloud Migrations and DR strategies

Nurture Cloud computing expertise internally and externally to drive Cloud Adoption

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.

Deliver cloud platform architecture documents detailing the vision for how GCP infrastructure and platform services support the overall application architecture, interaction with application, database and testing teams for providing a holistic view to the customer.

Collaborate with application architects and DevOps to modernize infrastructure as a service (IaaS) applications 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.

Identify and implement best practices, tools and standards

Provide consultative support to the DevOps team for production incidents

Drive and support system reliability, availability, scale, and performance activities

Evangelizes cloud automation and be a thought leader and expert defining standards for building and maintaining cloud platforms.

Knowledgeable about Configuration management such as Chef/Puppet/Ansible.

Automation skills using CLI scripting in any language (bash, perl, python, ruby, etc)

Ability to develop a robust design to meet customer business requirement with scalability, availability, performance and cost effectiveness using GCP offerings

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

Process/ Quality Knowledge:

Must have clear knowledge on ITIL based service delivery

ITIL certification is desired

Knowledge on quality

Knowledge on security processes

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