GCP/GKE Architect/Infra
Experience: 8 to 10 Years
Job Type: Contractual
Location: Remote (Willing to travel to Bangalore, Occasionally)
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Skill to Evaluate:
Job Title/Role: GCP & GKE Staff Engineer
Primary Skill:
Minimum work experience: 8+ yrs
Total Experience: 8+ Years
Must have GCP Solution Architect Certification & GKE
Technical Qualification/ Knowledge:
- Expertise in assessment, designing and implementing GCP solutions including aspects like compute, network, storage, identity, security, DR/business continuity strategy, migration, templates, cost optimization, PowerShell, Terraforms, Ansible etc.
- Must have GCP Solution Architect Certification
- Should have prior experience in executing large complex cloud transformation programs including discovery, assessment, business case creation, design, build, migration planning and migration execution
- Should have prior experience in using industry leading or native discovery, assessment and migration tools
- Good knowledge on the GCP technologies and associated components and variations
- Cloud Storage, Cloud Storage for Firebase, Persistant Disk, Local SSD, Filestore , Transfer Service
- Virtual Private Network (VPC), Cloud DNS, Cloud Interconnect, Cloud VPN Gateway, Network Load Balancing, Global load balancing, Firewall rules, Cloud Armor, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner SQL, Cloud Bigtable
- Design of clients Cloud environments with a focus mainly on GCP and demonstrate Technical Cloud Architectural knowledge.
- Playing a vital role in the design of production, staging, QA and development Cloud Infrastructures running in 24x7 environments.
- Should have a deep understanding of IaaS and PaaS services offered on cloud platforms and understand how to use them together to build complex solutions.
- Ensure that all cloud solutions follow security and compliance controls, including data sovereignty.
- Collaborate with application architects and DevOps to modernize infrastructure as a service (IaaS) application to Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Create solutions that support a DevOps approach for delivery and operations of services
- Interact with and advise business representatives of the application regarding functional and non-functional requirements
- Create proof-of-concepts to demonstrate viability of solutions under consideration
- Develop enterprise level conceptual solutions and sponsor consensus/approval for global applications.
- Have a working knowledge of other architecture disciplines including application, database, infrastructure, and enterprise architecture.
- Ability to identify and gather requirements to define an architectural solution which can be successfully built and operate on GCP
- Ability to conclude high level and low level design for the GCP platform which may also include data center design as necessary
- Capabilities to provide GCP operations and deployment guidance and best practices throughout the lifecycle of a project
- Understanding the significance of the different metrics for monitoring, their threshold values and should be able to take necessary corrective measures based on the thresholds
- Knowledge on automation to reduce the number of incidents or the repetitive incidents are preferred
- Good knowledge on the cloud center operation, monitoring tools, backup solution
GKE
Set up monitoring and logging to troubleshoot a cluster, or debug a containerized application.
Manage Kubernetes Objects
Declarative and imperative paradigms for interacting with the Kubernetes API.
Managing Secrets
Managing confidential settings data using Secrets.
Configure load balancing, port forwarding, or setup firewall or DNS configurations to access applications in a cluster.
Configure networking for your cluster.
- Hands-on experience with terraform. Ability to write reusable terraform modules.
- Hands-on Python and Unix shell scripting is required.
- understanding of CI/CD Pipelines in a globally distributed environment using Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, Docker registry.
- Experience with GCP Services and writing cloud functions.
- Hands-on experience deploying and managing Kubernetes infrastructure with Terraform Enterprise. Ability to write reusable terraform modules.
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and/or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) is a plus
- Experience using Docker within container orchestration platforms such as GKE.
- Knowledge of setting up splunk
- Knowledge of Spark in GKE
- Certification: GCP solution architect & GKE
