In this role you will be part of a learning culture, where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged, excellence is rewarded, and diversity is respected and valued

Roles and Responsibilities:
• Responsible for design, development, implementation, operation improvement and debug cloud environments in GCP and Cloud Management Platform and orchestration tools.
• Performs engineering design evaluations for new environment builds
• Create and develop possible automation solution for cloud environments using native or 3rd party tools like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef etc
• Reviews and Technical supervision/direction to the teams on GCP services
• Implementation of industry standard security practices during implementation and maintain it throughout the lifecycle.
• Has knowledge of commonly-used concepts, practices, and procedures through automation tools. Relies on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job.
• Have a good understanding of Google best practice/recommendation and should be able to align the same with the customer requirements to deliver best in class solution for the customer.
• The role is also expected to leverage prior knowledge and experience with the GCP native automation framework (deployment manager) to perform automation of build and deployment activities.
• This individual will consult with other team members and use prior expertise with GCP/AWS/Azure to extend an existing framework of automation across new and existing application environments.
• Process analysis and design, with a focus on identifying technology-driven improvements to core enterprise processes
• Maintain deep knowledge of the market for cloud services, enterprise applications, business process management, advanced analytics, and integration software

Skill/ Competency Requirements:
Essential -
• Experience in leveraging GCP IaaS services & GCP products & Services with an overall 12+ years of experience of hard-core infrastructure consulting
• GCP Certification - Mandatory - Associate Cloud Engineer/Professional Cloud Architect /OR / Professional Cloud Developer
• In depth knowledge of key GCP services - GCE, GKE, GAE, GCS, Cloud SQL, VPC, Resource Manager, Stack Driver, Cloud CDN, Cloud IAM, GSuite (good to have) Infrastructure as Code etc.
• Good exposure to Google BigData & ML platform - like BigTable, Big Query, Dataproc/Dataflow/ML API's etc. (good to have)
• On premise/other cloud providers to GCP cloud migration using cloud migration tools like Velostrata/Sureline/Cloud Endure etc.
• Good knowledge of GCP SKD/API tools like gcloud, gutils, kubeclt etc.
• Good knowledge of automation & configuration management tools like GCP native tool - deployment manager and third party tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Salt etc
• Cloud strategy assessment and definition
• CI and CD using Jenkins, Ansible, Python, Shell scripting, Change management, GCP Cloud product & Services knowledge and prod support activities
• At least 2 - 3 years of experience using DevOps Tools, Python, Dockers
• Knowledge about CI and CD using GIT, Jenkins, Ansible, JIRA ..etc
• Strong understanding of UNIX/Windows Operating system and adept in any of the scripting languages like PowerShell, shell, awk, perl etc.
• Understanding and experience on handling of servers like IIS, Tomcat, Apache
• Defining deployment standards for development team & reviewing delivered build packages for validating the required standards, Automation Architect
• Understand Agile methodologies and software development lifecycle process.
• Understanding of container technology and container orchestration platforms.
• Knowledge of best practices and market trends pertaining to Cloud and overall industry to provide thought leadership (seminars, whitepapers etc.,) and mentor team to build necessary competency
• Advise the customer executives on their cloud strategy roadmap, improvements, alignment and further improvements.
• Proven experience assessing clients' workloads and technology landscape for Cloud suitability, develop business case and Cloud adoption roadmap
• Proven knowledge of leading Cloud Management Platform and orchestration tools
• Proven knowledge of evaluating the GCP hosting/consumption charges and optimization of the charges
• Experience in defining new architectures and ability to drive project from architecture standpoint
• Ability to quickly establish credibility and trustworthiness within key executive stakeholders in client organization;
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills;
• Ability to quickly produce PowerPoint slides which are both content rich, succinct and visually appealing;

Preferred -
• Knowledge and preferably working experience of other Cloud services such as AWS, Azure, IBM Soft layer, Rackspace, Private Clouds
• Cloud Industry trends and GCP vs other cloud platform feature capabilities
• Understanding GCP partner ecosystems
• Experience in Managing delivery in Global Delivery Model with Onsite (client site)/ offshore resources