Google Cloud Solution Architect

Description

Cognizant Technology Solutions is currently seeking a highly skilled GCP Solution Architect who will be responsible for Managing end to end GCP platform. Ability to work independently and remotely, with willingness travel for client engagements as needed.

Are you ready to be a change-maker? At Cognizant, we believe those who challenge the way they work today will lead the way tomorrow!

Responsibilities:

• Deploying and managing applications in a GKE environment
• Writing automation scripts and tools to manage the infrastructure
• Building and maintaining Docker containers
• Monitoring and troubleshooting of Kubernetes clusters
• Collaborating with development teams to ensure application deployment is seamless
• Ensuring high availability and scalability of applications
• Keeping up to date with the latest developments in Kubernetes and related technologies.
• Integrating GKE with other tools and systems using Python APIs.
• Developing custom plugins and extensions for Kubernetes using Python.
• Implementing security and compliance policies for applications running on Google Anthos.
• Managing multi-cluster and multi-cloud deployments using Google Anthos.
• Accelerate cloud adoption by influencing and standardizing reusable patterns to develop prebuilt solutions or automation templates
• Develop workload specific migration templates
• Keeping up to date with the latest developments in Kubernetes and related technologies.
• Integrating GKE with other tools and systems using Python APIs.
• Developing custom plugins and extensions for Kubernetes using Python.
• Keywords: GKE, GKE Autopilot, Anthos, Serverless, Knative, Python

Required Skills/Qualifications:

• 14+ years of experience in Overall Infrastructure along with 3-5 years of GCP Cloud experience.
• Experience in migrating large scale customer facing applications from on premise to GCP environment.
• Aptitude to be a good team player and the willingness to learn and implement new cloud technologies as needed.
• Good Understanding of Cloud Infrastructure concepts and data center load balancing technologies, Networking and TCP/IP Server hardware configuration and Standard Internet services, such as DNS, HTTP, etc.
• Methodical approach to troubleshooting complex problems.
• Knowledge of Linux or windows scripting languages, such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell etc.
• Monitoring and Instrumentation DevOps toolchain Technical and Professional Expertise.
• Keywords: GKE , GKE Autopilot, Anthos, Serverless, Knative, Python

Preferred Skills/Qualification:

• Cloud Architecture and Strategy standardization of reference architecture / identification of reusable composite patterns to develop prebuilt solutions or automation templates / Identify opportunities to accelerate cloud adoption
• DevOps / Cloud Engineers with automation expertise (IaC, Terraform Public cloud)
• Cloud adoption and migration expertise.

Home office setup (network, phone, etc.) Our strength is built on our ability to work together. Our diverse backgrounds offer different perspectives and new ways of thinking. It encourages lively discussions, inspires thought leadership, and helps us build better solutions for our clients. We want someone who thrives in this setting and is inspired to craft meaningful solutions through true collaboration.

If you are comfortable with ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we'd love to hear from you.