GCP Architect
Location: Plano-Texas, USA (hybrid)
We are looking for GCP Architect for an immediate need. This is a client-facing role & the candidate will have regular interactions with various client leaders.
Job Description:
- Designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and secure GCP-based solutions to meet clients' business requirements.
- Advising clients on the best practices and optimal use of GCP services and features
- Building and maintaining GCP infrastructure, including virtual machines, storage, and networking components
- Automating deployment and management of GCP resources using tools like Terraform and Ansible
- Monitoring and troubleshooting GCP infrastructure, applications, and services.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to design and implement end-to-end solutions that leverage GCP services.
- Staying up to date with GCP offerings and new features, and recommending improvements to existing solutions
- Ensuring compliance with security and regulatory requirements
- Developing and maintaining documentation related to GCP architecture, configurations, and processes.
- Knowledge and experience in Google Cloud Platform involving compute, storage, network, and database solutions.
- Strong analytical skills in understanding the business and technical requirement and propose appropriate GCP solution to meet those requirements.
- Experience in creating technical design and architecture documents, work with review board for design and solution approval for implementation.
- Strong knowledge, design, and implementation experience in Google Kubernetes Engine to host containerized workloads at scale and with high availability for production apps.
- Experience in GKE cluster sizing, network configurations and security controls for resilient and secure container runtime environment.
- Ability to create and customize Kubernetes manifests for creating deployments, services, and ingress objects.
- Experience in Microservices deployments using Istio or any other service mesh.
- Knowledge and experience in designing CICD pipelines using GCP DevOps solutions and 3rd party tools viz. Jenkins, bitbucket, GitHub, Travis CI etc.,
- Knowledge in Cloud Operations suite, and hands on experience in implementing Cloud Monitoring, Logging to ensure site reliability and performance of hosted applications.
- Experience in implementing Cloud IAM with principle of least privilege, security hardening of cloud infrastructure in line with CIS, NIST standards.
- Experience in provisioning of GCP infrastructure with Infrastructure as a Code approach preferably using Terraform.
- Implementation experience in GCP managed database and storage solutions such as Cloud SQL, Fire store, cloud storage buckets
Preferred Certification:
- Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect or Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Engineer
Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
401(k) plan and contributions
Long-term/Short-term Disability
Disclaimer: The benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Why Cognizant?
- Collaborate with a community of experts to enhance and expand your skills.
- Join a team where global culture adopts diversity of thought and background.
- Find balance with our hybrid model that prioritizes your health, safety and well-being.
- Opportunity to work for leading global companies while advancing your career.