GCP Architect- Hands-On Experience (Onsite)

GCP Architect- hands-on experience (onsite)

Location: Dallas, TX; Atlanta GA; Charlotte NC; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA (ready to relocate to CST, EST or PST time zone)

We are looking for GCP Architect with hands-on experience for an immediate hiring. This is an internal position and will be aligned to futuristic client-facing role & the candidate will have regular interactions with various client managers. The applicant must be ready to relocate to anywhere in United States ( major cities).

• Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future*

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing scalable, reliable, and secure GCP-based solutions to meet clients' business requirements.

• Advising clients on the best practices and efficient 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 fix 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.

Qualifications and experience required:

• Enterprise Architect: 10 - 14 year

• Google cloud Migration: 6 - 8 year

• Cloud Architect: 10 - 14 year

• 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

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual salary for this position is between $[147,300.00 - 165,800.00] depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.

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

• Paid Parental Leave

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan