Cloud GCP Systems Architect

We are seeking a talented GCP System Architect to lead the design, implementation, and management of robust and scalable systems on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). In this role, you will be a key player in shaping our cloud infrastructure, ensuring its reliability, security, and performance. If you have a deep understanding of GCP services, a knack for designing efficient and resilient architectures, and a passion for driving technical excellence, we invite you to join our team.

Responsibilities
• To create system architecture documentation, work/feature-breakdown structure document and other related artifacts with deep technical details.
• Able to perform client-facing technical consultancy roles, contribute to knowledge base, work in Team Lead role for small-medium sized teams, etc
• Able to assess the existing maturity of client in Cloud and DevOps space, perform gap analysis and provide baseline solution
• Configuration Management tool (Ansible/Puppet/Salt)
• Containerized deployment and orchestration

Requirements
• Should have 10 to 16years of overall experience with minimum 5 years of production experience on any public cloud.
• Must have excellent communication skills
• Thorough understanding of Security, Networks, Hybrid Cloud
• A good understanding of GCP Architecture, Deployment architectures
• Basic understanding/exposure to SRE
• Design and implement solutions for clients considering the on-premise infrastructure and Google Cloud Platform.
• Possesses Leadership traits, and has lead teams for at-least 2 years
• Demonstrated experience in architecting, developing or maintaining production-grade cloud solutions in public clouds such as Google Cloud platform.
• Customer facing experience of discovery, assessment, execution, and operations.
• Exposure to Cloud Migration and Migration Strategies
• Design and engineer scalable, reliable, and resilient software running in the cloud.
• Analyzing and monitoring performance bottlenecks and key metrics to optimize software and system performance.as well as providing ana- lytics and forecasts for cloud capacity, troubleshooting analysis, and uptime.
• Should have strong experience of a couple of years, in leading DevOps team and planning, defining DevOps roadmap and executing as per the same along with the team.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation communication skills, with a focus on translating business requirements into technology solutions and vice versa.
• Strong capability to mentor System Engineers 1-4
• Strong Delivery fundamentals
• Has experience to contribute to organization growth and take up one or more additional responsibilities.
• Interviewing , Assessing System Engineers
• Running Technology Incubation Labs
• Participating in Pre-Sales tasks
• Undertaking engineering excellence activities/events
• Should have experience in GCP Services - Compute(CE, AE, CF, GKE, CR, pub/Sub), Storage, Data tools, Cloud Build
• Should have experience in GCP Networking fundamentals (VPC, VPN, Peering, Interconnect)
• Should have experience in GCP Security fundamentals (IAM, Service Accounts, Workload Iden- tity)
• Should have experience in Container Orchestration
• Should have experience in Container Registry - GCR
• Experience in setting up of Load Balancer, Auto Scaling, databases, firewall rules etc.
• Working knowledge of Backup and Recovery methodology and imple- mentations on GCP.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code Tooling like Terraform
• Experience with at least one Configuration management tool like (An- sible, Packer, Salt, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
• Experience with Containerization like Dockers and Kubernetes.
• Experience with windows or Linux/Unix administration and Unix shell scripting (bash))
• Experience with at least one Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Pipelines and tooling (GitLab, Jenkins, Bamboo, Circle CI etc)
• Experience with migrating/modernizing various workloads into GCP
• Has understanding of automated infrastructure discovery using the GCP native tools
• Experience with leveraging GCP migration toolset such as Migration Center, Database Migration Service, Cloud Foundation Toolkit, etc.
• Knowledge of modernizing the application hosted on VM/servers to container-based deployment architecture
• Optimize Total Cost of Ownership by leveraging the right services in the GCP landscape

Nice to have
• Coding with modern languages like Python, Groovy
• Application development experience

Technologies
• GCP
• Linux
• Networking
• CI/CD
• Jenkins
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Terraform/Ansible
• Python/shell

We offer
• Insurance Coverage
• Paid Leaves – including maternity, bereavement, paternity, and special COVID-1+ leaves.
• Financial assistance for medical crisis
• Retiral Benefits – VPF and NPS
• Customized Mindfulness and Wellness programs
• EPAM Hobby Clubs
• Hybrid Work Model
• Soft loans to set up workspace at home
• Stable workload
• Relocation opportunities with ‘EPAM without Borders’ program
• Certification trainings for technical and soft skills
• Access to unlimited LinkedIn Learning platform
• Access to internal learning programs set up by world class trainers
• Community networking and idea creation platforms
• Mentorship programs
• Self-driven career progression tool