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Cloud Infra Engineer

Job Description – Cloud Infra Engineer with API Management Skills (2-3 Years Experience)

Your Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure solutions on Google Cloud Platform aligned with business requirements.
• Migrate workloads from on-premises environments or other public clouds to Google Cloud Platform, ensuring seamless integration and minimal downtime.
• Design and implement Enterprise Landing Zone and application landing zones, considering Google recommended design principles, security, disaster recovery, high availability, and resilient considerations.
• Develop automation scripts and tools using Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code tools to streamline deployment, configuration, and management of cloud resources.
• implement robust backup solutions to safeguard critical data and ensure data integrity in the event of data loss or corruption, utilizing GCP-native backup services or third-party backup solutions where applicable.
• Designing and implementing high availability architectures to minimize downtime and ensure continuous availability of critical services and applications, leveraging GCP’s native high availability features and best practices.
• Work closely with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions on GCP.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior team members, sharing knowledge and best practices in GCP infrastructure management.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and GCP services, continuously evaluating and implementing new solutions to optimize our cloud environment.
• Collaborate with client-facing teams and management to develop estimates, Point of Views (POVs), Position Papers, and contribute to pursuits, proposals, and Statement of Work (SOW).
• Participate in the recruitment process, including interviewing and evaluating candidates, and oversee the development and maintenance of team competence in cloud-native technologies.
• Participating in the organization-wide people initiatives
• Excellent skill in written and oral communication skills; writing, publishing, and conference level presentation skills a plus.

Skills And Attributes For SuccessTechnical attributes:

• Proficient in implementing GCP landing zones to meet specific project requirements and organizational standards.
• Strong experience in establishing governance policies, security controls, and compliance measures within landing zones to ensure secure and efficient cloud operations.
• Strong experience of working with terraform or other IaC tools on Cloud (GCP, AWS & Azure)
• Experience in developing Infra automation solutions using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform/Deployment Manager and Jenkin/Terraform cloud or other CICD tools to streamline the deployment of GCP resources.
• Experience in developing and implementing organizational policies and defining custom organization policy constraints.
• Proficient in implementing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation to achieve rapid and consistent resource provisioning.
• Strong experience in deploying cloud compute, storage, networking, monitoring and security solutions in client environment.
• Experience with migration of workloads from on-premises environments or other public clouds to Google Cloud Platform, leveraging tools such as Migrate for Compute
• Experience with large and complex IT systems in an enterprise environment using virtualization including VMware or hyper V
• Experience designing and implementing observability solutions for cloud-based architectures.
• Experience in deploying and implementing Anthos on GCP, or any other cloud platforms.
• Experience in designing and implementing GKE specific solution.
• Experience managing complex cloud environment, delivering application migration to cloud platform.
• Proficiency in defining Open Policy Agent (OPA) policy constraint templates specifically designed for GKE policy governance.
• Exposure to hybrid cloud solutions like GCP Bare Metal, GCVE.
• Proficient in GCP networking concepts such as VPC peering, Shared VPC, VPC, Cloud Interconnect, NGFW, Cloud VPN and Cloud DNS with a strong understanding of network architecture design principles for designing secure network architecture.
• Strong understanding of GCP security offerings, including Identity and Access Management, Security Command Center, Key Management Service, Cloud HSM, and Cloud Armor, with a focus on implementing defense-in-depth security controls and mitigating security risks in GCP
• experience in designing and implementing high availability architectures and disaster recovery strategies to ensure the resilience of cloud-based systems.
• Experience in implementing any 3rd party backup solution for Google cloud platform.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.

To qualify for the role, you must have.

• Degree in Engineering, IT, Computer Science
• Hands-on technical experience with a minimum of 2-3 years in an Infrastructure background, with 2+ years of experience in GCP infra solution.
• Proficiency in Terraform Infrastructure as Code scripting and demonstrated experience in implementing GCP enterprise and application landing zone solutions.
• Expertise in architecting and delivering large-scale cloud migrations from on-premises or other cloud platforms.
• Experience in designing and implementing infrastructure and application migrations to Google Kubernetes Engine.
• Familiarity with GCP as well as other cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS is considered an added advantage.
• Proven track record in designing, implementing, and optimizing GCP infrastructure solutions.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and agile development environment.

Certifications

• Certification as a GCP Professional Cloud Architect or GCP Associate Cloud Engineer.
• Terraform Associates certification.
• Any additional cloud certifications would be considered an added advantage.

Technologies and Tools

• Google cloud platform with additional knowledge of AWS/Azure
• IaC tools Terraform / Deployment manager.
• Experience in CICD tools Jenkin / Terraform Cloud
• Docker, Cubernets, Github, Github Actions
• Experience in Operating system RHEL or SUSI Linux /Windows
• Experience in GCP Cloud operation Suites or Splunk/Dynatrace etc
• Experience in GCP Migration tools: Migrate to compute, Migrate to container.
• GKE, Cloud Deploy, cloud build,
• Configuration management tools: Puppet/Ansible (optional)
• GCVE, Google Anthos
• Experience in Virtualization platform VMware / Hyper-V
• Any Cloud based backup solution like Veeam/Commvault etc

What We Look For

• Has successfully demonstrated domain of most skills and technologies during many relevant projects.
• Strong experience in the use of complex technologies
• Proven experience in delivering effective cloud Infra solutions.
• Confidently uses most of the related skills and technologies and maintains an in-depth knowledge of the area.
• Experience designing and conducting research and experiments with recently developed technologies.

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