Data Architect w/GCP experience - 1301



Location: Remote. Travel 20-40% after COVID-19.
Job type: Full-time permanent (w2 only)
Level: Senior preferably but we consider pre-Senior SAs as well
Salary: depending on the location, $150K-170K. Higher is possible and can be discussed.
Visa sponsorship: No
 
 
** Data GCP Solution Architect. Experience with GCP is a must. Data/Big Data experience is a must.**
 
 

JOB DESCRIPTION
 

• As a Data Engineer, you become responsible for the design and development of next-generation data processing systems and supervising their implementation across different clients and engineering teams, ensuring that the industry best practices incorporated.
• You will travel to the clients’ sites to deploy solutions and deliver the workshops to educate and enrich clients’ knowledge.

 
RESPONSIBILITIES

• Architecture design of holistic Cloud ecosystem with a focus on Google Cloud Platform capabilities and features.
• Architecture design of Production, Staging/QA, and Development infrastructures running is 24/7 environments.
• Robust and consistent Cloud Strategy design aligned with business objectives.
• Provide guidelines for infrastructure migration approaches and techniques including numerous applications migrations into the cloud and implementation of hybrid cloud solutions within regulated enterprise environments.
• Evangelize Cloud computing expertise internally and externally to drive Cloud Adoption.
• The candidate becomes a valuable member of Google Cloud Platform Solution Practice in North America, providing Cloud expertise within the team.
• Ability to travel 20-40% of the time as required.

 
QALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS
Consulting skills

• In-depth cloud professional, competent of quickly establishing connections and credibility in how to address the business needs via design and operate cloud-based architectures.
• Strong written, verbal and mock-up skills.
• Experience in Agile or PMI methodology managed projects is appreciated.
• Experience in enterprise applications, solutions, and data center infrastructures.
• Experience in platform and cloud migrations, including migration factory.
• Work experience with geographically distributed teams and offshore models.

 
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Primary skills

• Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect.
• Implementation experience with identity management and networking segmentation in GCP across multiple VPC networks and multiple projects.
• In-depth understanding and knowledge of distributed version control systems like Git.
• Extensive experience with DevOps techniques and processes related to cloud solutions. CI/CD tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, GCP Deployment Manager.
• Broad knowledge of troubleshooting approaches and driving-to-resolution technical integration issues across various platforms.
• Solid understanding and practical knowledge of hybrid environments with operating systems that belong to Windows and *nix families, MS SQL Server, and Oracle Database.
• Strong understanding of concepts and experience with StackDriver and other cloud-based monitoring tools including application level and logging.

 
 
Secondary skills

• Creation of automated tooling for cloud platforms as well as monitoring and alerting purposes.
• Experience in architecting and running consumer-facing applications in a hybrid, multi-cloud environment.
• Experience with performance testing and tuning.
• Experience with GCP based security hardening including IAM, ACL, firewall rules, data traffic encryption.