Principal Consultant - Google Cloud Platform - Stuttgart, Germany (M/FD)
Company: ITL Germany
Requisition ID: 127780BR
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 and 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 and configuration of GCP services and deployment of the overall solution to optimize, improve, and future-proof the customer's cloud strategy.
You will guide teams on project processes, deliverables, and contribute to the proposal development, client training, and internal capability-building. You will help detail the project and service operations scope, shaping value-adding consulting solutions that enable our clients to meet the changing needs of their global business 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:
1. Responsible for design, development, implementation, operation improvement, and debug cloud environments in GCP and Cloud Management Platform and orchestration tools.
2. Perform engineering design evaluations for new environment builds.
3. Create and develop possible automation solutions for cloud environments using native or 3rd party tools like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc.
4. Provide technical supervision/direction to the teams on GCP services.
5. Implement industry-standard security practices during implementation and maintain them throughout the lifecycle.
6. Possess knowledge of commonly-used concepts, practices, and procedures through automation tools.
7. Align Google best practices/recommendations with customer requirements to deliver best-in-class solutions.
8. Leverage prior knowledge and experience with the GCP native automation framework (deployment manager) for automation of build and deployment activities.
9. Consult with team members and use expertise with GCP/AWS/Azure to extend an existing framework of automation across new and existing application environments.
10. Conduct process analysis and design, focusing on identifying technology-driven improvements to core enterprise processes.
11. Maintain deep knowledge of the market for cloud services, enterprise applications, business process management, advanced analytics, and integration software.
Skill/Competency Requirements:
Essential:
1. Experience in leveraging GCP IaaS services & GCP products & Services with an overall 12+ years of experience in hardcore infrastructure consulting.
2. GCP Certification – Mandatory - Associate Cloud Engineer/Professional Cloud Architect /OR / Professional Cloud Developer.
3. 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).
4. Good exposure to Google BigData & ML platform – like BigTable, Big Query, Dataproc/Dataflow/ML APIs, etc. (good to have).
5. On-premise/other cloud providers to GCP cloud migration using cloud migration tools like Velostrata/Sureline/Cloud Endure, etc.
6. Good knowledge of GCP SDK/API tools like gcloud, gutils, kubeclt, etc.
7. Good knowledge of automation & configuration management tools like GCP native tool - deployment manager and third-party tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Salt, etc.
8. Cloud strategy assessment and definition.
9. CI and CD using Jenkins, Ansible, Python, Shell scripting, Change management, GCP Cloud product & Services knowledge and production support activities.
10. At least 2 - 3 years of experience using DevOps Tools, Python, Dockers.
11. Knowledge about CI and CD using GIT, Jenkins, Ansible, JIRA, etc.
12. Strong understanding of UNIX/Windows Operating systems and adept in any of the scripting languages like PowerShell, shell, awk, perl, etc.
13. Understanding and experience in handling servers like IIS, Tomcat, Apache.
14. Defining deployment standards for development teams & reviewing delivered build packages for validating the required standards, Automation Architect.
15. Understand Agile methodologies and the software development lifecycle process.
16. Understanding of container technology and container orchestration platforms.
17. Knowledge of best practices and market trends pertaining to Cloud and overall industry to provide thought leadership (seminars, whitepapers, etc.) and mentor the team to build necessary competency.
18. Advise customer executives on their cloud strategy roadmap, improvements, alignment, and further improvements.
19. Proven experience assessing clients’ workloads and technology landscape for Cloud suitability, developing business cases, and Cloud adoption roadmaps.
20. Proven knowledge of leading Cloud Management Platform and orchestration tools.
21. Proven knowledge of evaluating the GCP hosting/consumption charges and optimization of the charges.
22. Experience in defining new architectures and ability to drive projects from an architecture standpoint.
23. Ability to quickly establish credibility and trustworthiness within key executive stakeholders in client organizations.
24. Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
25. Ability to quickly produce PowerPoint slides that are both content-rich, succinct, and visually appealing.
Preferred:
1. Knowledge and preferably working experience of other Cloud services such as AWS, Azure, IBM SoftLayer, Rackspace, Private Clouds.
2. Cloud Industry trends and GCP vs other cloud platform feature capabilities.
3. Understanding GCP partner ecosystems.
4. Experience in Managing delivery in Global Delivery Model with Onsite (client site)/offshore resources.
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