Overview
Remote
Hybrid
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - Long Term
Skills
Terraform
Best Practices
Business Requirements
Deployment
Billing
Networking
GCP
BigQuery
google cloud
firewall
Translate
Governance
TCO
Data Pipelines
Cloud Security
Load Balancing
Welding
Provisioning
Problem-Solving
Identity and Access Management
Security Design
Job Details
Title Google Cloud Platform Cloud Architect (L6)
Duraton: Long Term
Location: Remote across Canada/USA (on-site as required for customer/team meetings)
Working hours: EST
Cloud : Google Cloud Platform , multi- cloud experience is a plus.
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement secure and scalable Google Cloud Platform landing zones for new and existing clients.
- Develop and maintain network architectures that ensure high availability, performance, and security.
- Create and optimize data pipelines on Google Cloud Platform to handle large volumes of data efficiently.
- Architect Vertex AI-based MLOps infrastructure to support model training, versioning, and deployment.
- Lead the security design for Google Cloud Platform environments, ensuring compliance with industry standards and best practices.
- Utilize Terraform to automate infrastructure provisioning and manage IaC security.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members on Google Cloud Platform best practices.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest Google Cloud Platform services, features, and industry trends.
- Perform Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis for applications and services.,
- Align Google Cloud Platform resources with tagging and labelling for showback and chargeback models for billing purpose
- Must have performed showback model to implement cost attribution for multi-tenant platforms and systems across Google Cloud Platform environments
- Create and roll out tooling, alerting, monitoring and reporting systems to showback cloud usage and costs to cloud users.
- Prepare monthly cloud cost analyses and reports for enterprise consumption
- Build Cloud Cost governance framework and guardrails
- optimize cloud spendings, monitoring and analyzing cloud usage patterns and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align cloud spendings with business priorities.
Qualifications:
- Proven experience as a Google Cloud Platform Solution Architect with a focus on landing zone and networking design.
- Extensive experience as a Google Cloud Platform Solution Architect with expertise in GKE, Composer, Dataflow, and Vertex AI.
- Expertise in Google Cloud Platform networking, including VPC, subnets, firewall rules, and load balancing.
- Strong understanding of on-premises networking and hybrid cloud connectivity.
- Proficiency in designing and implementing data pipelines using Google Cloud Platform services like Dataflow, Pub/Sub, and BigQuery.
- Deep knowledge of Google Cloud Platform security principles, including IAM, Cloud Identity, and security best practices.
- Experience with infrastructure security and IaC security, particularly with Terraform.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities, with the capacity to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Certifications such as Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect or Professional Cloud Security Engineer are highly desirable.
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