Cloud Engineer- GCP

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We are currently seeking a Cloud Engineer- GCP to join our team in Mexico, México (MX-MEX), Mexico (MX).

Job Title / Role: GCP & GKE Staff Engineer

Job Description:

Primary Skill: Cloud-Infrastructure-Google Cloud Platform

Total Experience: 8+ Years

Mandatory Skills:

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.
• Prior experience in executing large complex cloud transformation programs including discovery, assessment, business case creation, design, build, migration planning and migration execution.
• Prior experience in using industry leading or native discovery, assessment and migration tools.
• Good knowledge on cloud technology, different patterns, deployment methods, compatibility of applications.
• Good knowledge on GCP technologies and associated components and variations.
• Cloud Storage, Cloud Storage for Firebase, Persistent Disk, Local SSD, Filestore, Transfer Service.
• Cloud Billing, Cloud Console, Stackdriver.
• Cloud Run Container services, Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Anthos Service Mesh, Cloud Functions, PowerShell on GCP.
• Solid understanding and experience in cloud computing based services architecture, technical design and implementations including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
• Design of clients Cloud environments focusing mainly on GCP and demonstrating Technical Cloud Architectural knowledge.
• Playing a vital role in the design of production, staging, QA and development Cloud Infrastructures running in 24x7 environments.
• Delivery of customer Cloud Strategies, aligned with customers business objectives and with a focus on Cloud Migrations and DR strategies.
• Nurture Cloud computing expertise internally and externally to drive Cloud Adoption.
• Deep understanding of IaaS and PaaS services offered on cloud platforms and understanding how to use them together to build complex solutions.
• Ensure that all cloud solutions follow security and compliance controls, including data sovereignty.
• Deliver cloud platform architecture documents detailing the vision for how GCP infrastructure and platform services support the overall application architecture, interaction with application, database and testing teams for providing a holistic view to the customer.
• Collaborate with application architects and DevOps to modernize infrastructure as a service (IaaS) applications 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.
• Working knowledge of other architecture disciplines including application, database, infrastructure, and enterprise architecture.
• Identify and implement best practices, tools and standards.
• Provide consultative support to the DevOps team for production incidents.
• Drive and support system reliability, availability, scale, and performance activities.
• Evangelize cloud automation and be a thought leader and expert defining standards for building and maintaining cloud platforms.
• Knowledgeable about Configuration management such as Chef/Puppet/Ansible.
• Automation skills using CLI scripting in any language (bash, perl, python, ruby, etc).
• Ability to develop a robust design to meet customer business requirements with scalability, availability, performance and cost effectiveness using GCP offerings.
• 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 being 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 cloud center operation, monitoring tools, backup solution.

GKE

• Set up monitoring and logging to troubleshoot a cluster, or debug a containerized application.
• Declarative and imperative paradigms for interacting with the Kubernetes API.
• 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.

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30 billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long term success. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure and connectivity. We are one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is a part of NTT Group, which invests over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future.