Cloud Architect

Job description

Must have skills:

• Expert GCP knowledge (certifications highly recommended). Please provide a
• portfolio/description of large scale GCP projects undertaken.
• GKE/Kubernetes management and troubleshooting
• Terraform IaC
• Good knowledge of AWS (certifications highly recommended).
• System Architecture and Design:
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement scalable and reliable
• systems on Google Cloud Platform considering optimal performance, security, and cost-effectiveness.
• Lead the design and architecture of cloud infrastructure solutions on GCP, focusing on
• VPC and its networking (Cloud Routers, Cloud NAT, VPC Peering VPN, GCP PSC, VPC
• Firewall rules),GCP Load balancers, Instance Groups, GCP VMs , Cloud SQL, IAM users
• groups service accounts, Cloud Storage, GCS Data transfer, GCP Cloud Armor etc
• Implement and manage GKE clusters, ensuring the efficient deployment and scaling of containerized applications.
• Implement best practices for building and deploying containerized applications within GKE.
• Optimize GKE configurations for performance, availability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Monitoring and Incident Response:
• Develop and implement proactive monitoring solutions to identify potential issues before they impact the system.
• Respond to and resolve incidents, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal system performance.
• Conduct post-incident reviews and implement improvements to prevent future occurrences.
• Configure monitoring and alerting systems for real-time visibility into the health and
• performance of GKE clusters and applications.
• Automate scaling based on performance metrics to ensure optimal resource utilization.
• Automation and Scripting:
• Implement automation scripts and tools to streamline deployment, configuration, and maintenance processes.
• Continuously seek opportunities to enhance operational efficiency through automation.
• Capacity Planning and Performance Optimization:
• Perform capacity planning to ensure that infrastructure resources meet current and future requirements.
• Optimize system performance and resource utilization to achieve optimal efficiency.
• Collaboration and Documentation:
• Work closely with development teams to understand application requirements and provide guidance on best practices for GCP.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for infrastructure, processes, and procedures.
• Security and Compliance:
• Implement and enforce security best practices to safeguard the integrity and confidentiality of data.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations related to cloud infrastructure.
• High Availability and Disaster Recovery and Backup:
• Implement high-availability solutions for GCP Infrastructure services to minimize service downtime.
• Implement high-availability solutions for GKE clusters to minimize service downtime.
• Develop and maintain disaster recovery plans to ensure business continuity.
• Develop and maintain the GCE backups using GCP native Snapshots, VM Image and
• Disk Image using Cloud Functions.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
• Leverage infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or Deployment Manager to define and manage cloud resources.
• Maintain version control for infrastructure code and documentation.