Principal Consultant - Google Cloud Platform

Job details

Country

Germany

State / Region / Province

Baden-Wurttemberg

Work Location

Stuttgart

Domain

Delivery

Interest Group

Infosys Limited

Skills

Technology|Cloud Platform|Google Cloud - Architecture

Company

ITL Germany

Requisition ID

127780BR

Job description

Role: Senior Technical Architect/Principal Consultant

Skill: Google Cloud Platform – Compute, Storage and Networks Configuration, Automation, Devops, Service Operations Improvements, Cloud Management Platform (CMP)

Description:

In the role of the Consultant you will be working on a GCP environment that has automation, orchestration defined or to be defined in the relevant country laws. You are an expert at contributing to different phases of the consulting, implementation and service operation lifecycle. You will be intensely involved in service operations and improvements, advice; work on the problems and contribute to the solution development. You will also play a lead role in the development, configuration of GCP services and deployment of the overall solution so as to optimize, improve and future proof the customers cloud strategy. You will guide teams on project processes, deliverables and contribute to the proposal development, client training and internal capability-building and help detail the project and service operations scope. You will have the opportunity to shape value-adding consulting solution on their strategy that enable our client to meet the changing needs of their global business landscape and future proof their landscape.

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

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