Cloud Architect - Noida, India - HCLTech

    HCLTech
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    Description

    Role: Cloud Architect GKE & GCK

    Total years of experience: 10+ Years

    Location: Noida, Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad

    Relevant experience for engagement: 10 Years

    Relevant skillset:

    • Production Grade experience in setting up Kubernetes Clusters on GKE / Kubernetes.
    • Well versed with security controls and implementation within Kubernetes.
    • Experience in configuring and managing Service Mesh ISTIO across K8S Cluster.
    • Knowledge of Docker is must.
    • Hybrid Cloud Solutions Design Specialist
    • Strategic Planning and Direction
    • Ability to produced detailed architecture documentation.
    • Must be excellent in IaC specially in Terraform.

    Relevant technology domains:

    Experience in designing & implementing solution in mentioned areas:

    Hybrid Cloud (IaaS, PaaS), IT Infrastructure consolidation & migration, IT Security, Virtualization, DC Infrastructures (Storage, Backup, Servers), Messaging & collaboration, Disaster Recovery, Security, Designing large and Complex distributed infrastructure.

    Professional Summary

    • 10+ years of extensive experience in delivering, designing and architecting strategic IT solutions within Public/Private Cloud, virtualization, Networking, security, and on-premises infrastructure space in line with business goals and strategy.
    • Knowledge of Docker is must.
    • Production Grade experience in setting up Foundation with best practices for Google Kubernetes Engine Clusters.
    • Well versed with security controls and implementation within Kubernetes. Must have worked with Network Policies / Pod Security Policies / Security Context / Identity Federation with Kubernetes.
    • Proven Experience in configuring and managing Service Mesh ISTIO across K8S Cluster like Virtual Services , Destination Rules etc.
    • Proven experience with setting up security within ISTIO like Custom CA Setup with CITADEL , Mesh Policies , MTLS etc.
    • Preparation and development of IT infrastructure roadmap, strategies and aligning with business and functional process.
    • Must be excellent in IaC specially in Terraform.
    • Google Cloud Solution Design Specialist or equivalent Public Cloud.
    • Must be comfortable with writing YAMLS file.
    • Extensively worked on Cloud migrations projects specific to legacy apps or Microservices
    • Experienced in designing backup & DR Solutions.
    • Experienced on delivering solutions on Converged Infrastructure (Cisco/HP/Dell/EMC) for Kubernetes Clusters.
    • Designing AS-IS and TO-BE Architectures, Gap Analysis & mitigations plans
    • Experience in Identifying opportunities that cross technical disciplines and product lines/services
    • Working closely with business owners to ensure alignment between business and technical requirements such as audit and compliances.
    • Led a team of Cloud Architects to provide clients services to meet their requirements as per designed solutions.
    • Experience with structured Enterprise Architecture practices, hybrid Google cloud deployments, and on-premise-to-cloud migration deployments and roadmaps.
    • Good to have Anthos GKE On-Prem or Anthos on AWS Implementation Experience.
    • Nice to have knowledge of Migrate for Anthos.
    • Experience in advanced areas of networking, including Linux, software-defined networking, network virtualization, open protocols, application acceleration and load balancing, DNS, virtual private networks and their application to PaaS and IaaS technologies.
    • Excellent in Bash Shell Scripting or any one programming Language like Python etc.
    • Proficient in open source server software (such as NGINX, HAPROXY).
    • Working experience with F5 Load Balancers or any 3rd Party Load Balancers / Global Traffic Manager etc.
    • Must be comfortable with SRE Fundamentals and Framework. Designing SLO / SLO etc.
    • Shall be comfortable with Cloud Operations Monitoring ( Google Stackdriver ).
    • Must be extremely comfortable and hands on with various services of Google Cloud like Compute Engine,IAM,Load Balancers, Pub Sub,Snapshots,Backups,Patching,Cloud Armor, Identity Aware Proxy, Anthos Service Mesh etc.
    • Experience with Git / GitOps and source control tools.
    • Address compliance and security needs through re- design and updates to existing solutions.
    • Demonstrated excellent communication, presentation, and problem-solving skills.
    • Proven Experience with open source monitoring and visualization systems and tools, i.e. Prometheus (monitoring + tracing), Grafana/Kibana (dashboards) etc.
    • Knowledge of DevOps methodologies and techniques and proven experience with any CI/CD tool like Jenkins / Bamboo etc.

    Relevant Certifications:

    • Google Professional Cloud architect
    • Google Cloud Associate Engineer
    • Azure Certified Solution Architect – AZ-300.
    • Amazon Certified Solution Architect
    • VMware Certified
    • vBLOCK (Converged Technology Trained)
    • Certified Kubernetes Administrator
    • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer