Architect - Cloud Platform Engineering

Job Description :

Role : Architect Platform

Experience Level : 10-15 Years

Work location : Bangalore (Hybrid)

Cloud : GCP only

Role & Responsibilities :

- Guide the client on technology evaluation, technical thought leadership, requirement gathering and direction.

- Design and document the detailed architecture and provide the walkthrough to the client directly.

- Take a lead in preparing functional and technical specification documents.

- Guide, and nurture the team members for successful delegation.

- Lead project deliveries and engage with the Go-To-Market teams for pre-sales requirements.

- Work closely with the business team to highlight and mitigate any risks to the projects proactively.

- Maintain a rapport with client-partners, and manage their expectations and plan for engineering.

- Guide and help team members debug and solve technical problems.

- Lead engagements with multiple work-streams; prepare project plans and manage deliverables.

- Review and perform code walkthrough for quality deliverables to the client.

- Showcase thought leadership on technology roadmaps, agile development methodologies, andout-of-the-box thinking.

Requirements :

years of IT experience in the Infrastructure realm that includes detailed understanding of Cloud providers(GCP, AWS or Azure added advantage to multi-Cloud experience) and their best practices, Networking, Compliances (HIPAA, GDPR, NIST), and Cloud services(serverless, server based).

- Detailed understanding and proven implementations for DevSecOps pipelines and culture.

- Containerization(Kubernetes, Docker), Service mesh(Envoy, Tanzu etc), Database modelling, and Operations(logging, monitoring, alerting).

- Thorough understanding of low-latency API architectures using either serverless or server based services.

- Must have good understanding of following resources :

- Networking Load balancing(HTTPS, TCP, SSL, etc), VPNs(BGP, IPSec), high-speed private connections(like Partner Interconnect, Express routes, etc).

- Security Secrets management, IAM policies(Least privilege), Compliances, CMEK keys,safeguarding external API endpoints(using application firewalls or cloud security services).

- Setup of Cloud Foundations and Cloud best practices to help clients build their cloud footprints and adopt its management.

- Precision to use the right Cloud services based on clients requirements.

- Past architecture implementations on Kubernetes pods, services, ingress(default and 3rdparty like Nginx), service mesh(like Tanzu), best practices.

- Basic experience with programming languages such as Python or Java or Golang.

- Experienced in IaC(Terraform), Vaults, and scripting languages such as BASH, Shell or Powershell.

- Implementation of processes within Client's environment, such as implementation of devops model for CICD, operations for visibility, etc.

- Design, and prototype new solutions for smoother delivery, implement self-healing, and alerting capabilities for mission critical applications.

- Proven ability to consume Clients DevOps tools(such as Jenkins, Cloud Build, Bamboo, Trevor,Sonarqube, checkmarx, artifactory etc) to build DevSecOps pipelines.

- Must have some experience in Application, and Data migration projects either for onprem datacenters to Cloud or between Cloud to Cloud.

- Work along with Account leads and Business team to grow the account based on future possibleuse cases.

- Well versed in identifying the right service and databases based on requirement(such as SQLNoSql, Redis, data warehousing).

- Strong Linux System experience with an appetite to troubleshoot and guide team towards resolution.

- Experience with Multi-regional architecture setup and aware about known issues at compute,and database level.

- Certifications are added advantage such as CKAD, CKS/Security/Networking/DevOps,AWS, Azure, Terraform, etc.