Contract Duration: 2 months – possible extension for 6 moths till end of the project
Possibility of extension & conversion to FTE – Depending on performance
Number of Positions: 1
Schedule Hours: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday (No overtime)
Reason: To replace an existing contractor funded by PCP
Candidate Value Proposition:
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on a highly visible project, opening up doors of opportunities within the organization.
Typical Day in Role:
• Manage GCP Cloud Infrastructure: Design, build, and implement solutions around standard public cloud services like, Google Cloud storage, Bigquery, Vertex AI Notebooks, Cloud Run and Cloud Functions among others, Using Terraform Modules.
• Release Control Management: Maintain and enhance the Release Control Management pipeline using Terraform, Cloud build and GitHub Actions and Bitbucket/GitHub repositories.
• Client Pipeline Management: Implement CI/CD process by designing industry standard Cloud Build for deploying Infrastructure and analytics workloads using Terraform, Docker, Cloud build, GitHub Actions, Artifact registry and other build / deployment activities
• Credential Security: Setup Hashicorp Vault and Secret Manager for secret management. Integrate security solutions with client interfaces
• Client User Acceptance Testing: Lead clients in user acceptance testing for component and base image upgrades, ensuring smooth transitions and minimal disruptions.
• Advanced Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Troubleshoot and resolve performance issues to ensure optimal system performance.
• Vendor and Technical Support Interaction: Regularly meet with product vendors and technical support to fine-tune and troubleshoot software components, ensuring the highest level of system performance and reliability.
• Client Support: Assist tenants with troubleshooting their issues related to GCP and its services
• Mentorship: Mentor junior engineers in best practices for building, deploying, testing, and supporting services, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
• 5+ years of experience in managing a public cloud platform for an enterprise on GCP, Azure or AWS with technical expertise in Foundational and Data services
• 10+ years of IT experience in managing and developing applications or platforms ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
• 3+ years of experience in using Infrastructure as Code tooling Like Terraform to manage large-scale infrastructure platforms with strong knowledge of best-practices for access control and least-privilege policy
• 2+ years of experience in public cloud-managed services for Data and Analytics for data warehousing, data lakes, ETL services, machine learning or data governance and security
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, Artifactory etc. to reduce cycle times and ensure quality.
• 5+ years of experience in Languages like Python, Go, or Java & scripting skills in (shell scripting, Python, Perl, Ansible) to automate tasks, create scripts, and develop infrastructure as code.
Nice-To-Have Skills:
• Experience with Docker/Container – including setting up and managing Docker registries as well as creating Dockerfiles to create custom images. Should have knowledge of overlay networking needed for inter-container communications from different nodes as well as external servers/infrastructure
• Experience in setting up Kubernetes or similar platforms on-premise/cloud (On-prem Rancher experience is a plus)
• Certification in GCP (GCP Cloud Associate) is desirable.
Soft Skills Required:
• Authentic, decisive, resilient, highly collaborative, curious and results-oriented
• Superior writing, research, presentation, and project management skills.
• Strong problem solver who supports the team to navigate challenges and/or asks for help from above when needed.
• Superior writing, communication, interpersonal, and project management skills.
• Team player with effective communication skills (verbal and written)
• Able to see tasks through to completion without significant guidance
• Self-managed and results-oriented with sense of ownership is required
Education & Certificates:
• A university degree in Mathematics, Science, Engineering, Management or relevant.
Best VS. Average Candidate:
The best candidate is someone with experience with Google Cloud implementation using terrafor, someone who is thorough and knowledgeable, a self-starter, take pride in their work and a hard worker.
Candidate Review & Selection
2 Rounds of interviews – 1st round with the Technical team – Video call Ms teams 1 hour – Talk about work experience and get to know (no technical assessments or business case required) 2nd round – Hiring manager and Director – Video call Ms teams 30 mins- Talk about experience and behavioral questions.