Cloud Delivery Architect

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of Google Cloud engagements from the design phase to handover.

• Manage multiple fixed-budget projects simultaneously.

• 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 GCP Cloud Foundations/Landing Zones, which encompass resource hierarchy, IAM, Organization Policies, network topology, and security controls codified in Terraform.

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

• Foster DevOps and infrastructure as code by converting manually built environments into Terraform and developing reusable modules.

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

• Maintain project boards and hours, safeguard scope through effective change management, and promptly identify budget deviations.

• Complete the handover process with thorough documentation, runbooks, and knowledge transfer.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive hands-on experience in production architecture on Google Cloud Platform; not a learning opportunity.

• Proficiency in Terraform, including modular reusable code, remote state management, and the ability to import hand-built environments.

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

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

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

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

• Working knowledge of AWS or Azure, with the ability to interpret source environments being migrated.

• Daily proficiency in using AI tools while exercising sound judgment regarding acceptance and rejection of information.

• Fluent in English.

• Nice to have: experience in production-scale migration, including CDC/logical replication.

• Nice to have: familiarity with open-source platforms such as Kafka, Elasticsearch, Istio, Prometheus/Grafana, and Vault.

• Nice to have: knowledge and experience in data and AI on GCP, including BigQuery, Dataflow, and Gemini.

• Nice to have: experience in regulated/fintech delivery, covering VPC-SC, CMEK, and Cloud Armor.

• Nice to have: consulting experience with fixed-scope engagements.

🏝️ Benefits

• Funding for current Google Cloud certification.

• Expectation to obtain Google Cloud certification within the initial months if not already certified.