Job Title / Role: GCP Solution Architect 

Band : C1/C2 

Total Experience: 10+ Years 

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 

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 client’s 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 customer’s 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 

Roles and Responsibilities:  

5+ year of experience in GCP based design (HLD and LLD) of the different components to meet the customer and business expectation in a cost effective manner 

Must have performed cloud architecting job for significant volume of application deployment in cloud 

3+ years of hands-on experience operating GCP-based applications, Compute Engine instances, Storage, backup, network configuration, automation, DR, backup and recovery 

5 or more years equivalent experience in the data center or cloud operation in any of the following areas 

OS administration (either Windows or Linux/ Unix) 

Storage + backup management (Enterprise level storages) 

Administration of the virtualization platform 

Network administration  

Good experience in designing DR and HA solutions and hands on experience for deploying those 

Experience on enterprise level IT infrastructure monitoring  

Ability to understand the design from the shared design document, and plan for the implementation / configuration 

Implement and Configure end to end all aspects of GCP as per design 

Configuration of Disaster Recovery design within and outside GCP cloud 

Demonstrating "User Acceptance Tests" for all the GCP Components at Infrastructure layer including Compute, Storage, Backup, DR, Network, Security and Load Balancing. 

Scripting for automating the repeatable tasks (Provisioning, Monitoring, Backup, DR-Sync and image Creation). 

Implementation and Monitoring of Security Aspects of GCP (Key Pairs, Virtual LAN, Security Access) 

Helping project team for analysis of the application and infrastructure assessment for cloud migration and cloud suitability 

Troubleshooting the GCP related issues within stipulated time frame 

Researching on new tool sets as needed to meet the customer and organizational requirement to deliver on time and within planned cost 

Ability to learn and adopt new technologies  

Ability to perform the tasks stated above independently 

Certification: GCP solution architect 

Process/ Quality Knowledge:  

Must have clear knowledge on ITIL based service delivery 

ITIL certification is desired 

Knowledge on quality  

Knowledge on security processes 

Soft Skills: 

Excellent communication skill and capability to work directly with global customers 

Excellent documentation skill 

Strong technical leadership skill to drive solutions 

Focused on quality/cost/time of deliverables 

Customer focused 

Timely and accurate communication 

Need to demonstrate the ownership for the technical issues and engage the right stakeholders for timely resolution 

Flexibility to learn and lead other technology areas like other public cloud technologies, private cloud, automation 

Good reporting skill 

Willing to work in different time zones as per project requirement 

Good attitude to work in team and as individual contributor based on the project and situation 

Focused, result oriented and self-motivating