GCP Architect

$125,000 - $150,000/Yr

Mastech Digital - New York, NY

Full-time - Senior

Remote - New York, NY

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

Mastech Digital provides digital and mainstream technology staff as well as Digital Transformation Services for all American Corporations. We are currently seeking a GCP Architect for our client in the Consulting domain. We value our professionals, providing comprehensive benefits and the opportunity for growth. This is an FTE/Contract position, and the client is looking for someone to start immediately.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of cloud solutions on GCP.
• Define and maintain the architectural vision, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and processes to ensure the highest quality solutions.
• Design scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud architectures.
• Develop proof-of-concept projects to validate proposed solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Oversee the implementation of Multi Cloud Solutions, ensuring they meet performance and reliability targets.
• Lead heterogeneous cloud migration projects, ensuring minimal downtime and seamless transition with cloud agnostic tools as well Third-party toolsets (if any).
• Provide guidance and best practices for deploying and managing applications in GCP.
• Ensure no customer escalations.
• Mentor and guide technical teams, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with DevOps, Security, and Development teams to integrate cloud solutions.
• Conduct training sessions and workshops to upskill teams on GCP services and best practices.
• Ensure cloud solutions comply with security and regulatory requirements.
• Implement and maintain security best practices, including identity and access management, data protection, and network security.
• Stay updated with the latest GCP services, features, and industry trends.
• Continuously evaluate and improve cloud processes and architectures to enhance performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in cloud architecture and services.
• Strong understanding of GCP services (Compute Engine, App Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Functions, BigQuery, etc.).
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform) and configuration tools like chef, puppet, ansible, salt.
• Experience in Deploying and managing applications with Kubernetes (GKE) and Docker, Serverless architecture.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Knowledge of networking, security, and database management in a cloud environment.
• Building ETL pipelines using Dataflow, Dataproc, and Big Query.
• Using Pub/Sub, Dataflow, and other real-time data processing services.
• Experience in Implementing backup solutions and disaster recovery plans.
• Designing and deploying applications with high availability and fault tolerance.
• Designing solutions that span across multiple cloud providers and on-premises infrastructure.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package offered by the client.