Cloud Delivery Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ukraine.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the delivery of Google Cloud engagements, overseeing the process from design to handover.

• Manage multiple fixed-budget projects concurrently.

• Facilitate weekly meetings, workshops, and handovers with customer engineers and CTOs.

• Transform presales commitments into production-ready solutions.

• Execute AWS/Azure-to-GCP migrations, ensuring production platforms are transitioned in waves with controlled cutovers.

• Design and implement Google Cloud Foundations/Landing Zones, addressing resource hierarchy, IAM, Organization Policies, network topology, and security controls using Terraform.

• Develop and deploy Kubernetes platforms on GKE, incorporating private clusters, Workload Identity, Helm add-ons, ingress, and Cloud Armor.

• Promote DevOps and infrastructure as code by importing custom-built environments into Terraform and crafting reusable modules.

• Implement GitHub Actions with Workload Identity Federation and GitOps utilizing Argo CD.

• Maintain up-to-date project boards and hours.

• Safeguard project scope through change management and promptly highlight budget deviations.

• Finalize handover with comprehensive documentation, runbooks, and knowledge transfer.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive hands-on experience in production architecture on Google Cloud Platform.

• Proficiency in Terraform, including the creation of modular reusable code, managing remote states, and importing custom-built environments.

• Strong customer-facing English skills for conducting workshops, weekly meetings, and handovers with customer engineers and CTOs.

• Experience with production Kubernetes/GKE, including private clusters, node pools, autoscaling, RBAC, Workload Identity, Helm, and ingress.

• Background in networking and security, with knowledge of VPC design, Cloud NAT/DNS/VPN, Private Service Connect, firewall policies, IAM, Organization Policies, and Secret Manager.

• CI/CD experience utilizing GitHub Actions or similar tools, including keyless authentication to GCP, container workflows, and GitOps with Argo CD or equivalent.

• Familiarity with AWS or Azure, with the ability to understand source environments that are being migrated.

• Proficient daily usage of AI tools combined with sound judgment.

• Fluency in English.

• Senior-level experience preferred.

• Current Google Cloud certification is a plus; certification costs are covered and expected to be obtained within the initial months if not already held.

• Experience with production-scale migrations, including CDC/logical replication, is desirable.

• Knowledge of open-source platforms like Kafka, Elasticsearch, Istio, Prometheus/Grafana, and Vault is advantageous.

• Experience in data and AI on GCP, including BigQuery, Dataflow, and Gemini, is a plus.

• Familiarity with regulated/fintech delivery, including VPC-SC, CMEK, and Cloud Armor, is beneficial.

• A consulting background with fixed-scope engagements is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Funding for current Google Cloud certification.

• Google Cloud certification is anticipated within the first months if not already obtained.