Build a trusted advisory relationship with strategic accounts and engage with management.
Act as a technical subject matter expert, particularly regarding the Google Cloud ecosystem for business users, providing clear and concise explanations of complex concepts.
Identify customer priorities, technical objections, and design strategies encompassing the Google ecosystem to deliver business growth and resolve blockers.
Lead requirements gathering and project scoping.
Solution design, problem-solving, and architecture diagramming.
Provide domain expertise around public cloud and enterprise technology, and effectively promote Google Cloud with clients, at conferences, and online.
Provide technical expertise to the team on continuous integration/continuous delivery, infrastructure, monitoring, alerting, and security.
Provide recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure needed to implement a complete solution for clients.
Assist in delivering technical solutions to meet customer functional needs and improve service reliability, including CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure builds/migrations.
Provide Engineer-to-Engineer and Architect-to-Engineer support, including whiteboard sessions and informal Q&A.
Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as required.

5+ years of GCP experience is a must. Experience in other clouds is beneficial.
Proven experience in building, architecting, designing, and implementing globally distributed cloud-based systems, with a strong understanding of API-first design principles and API management platforms like Apigee.
Extensive experience with security (zero trust) and networking in cloud environments
Capable of advising and implementing CI/CD practices to clients using tools such as GitHub, GitLab, Cloud Build, and Cloud Deploy and concepts such as GitOps and GitFlow.
Experience in containerizing workloads using Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and Artifact Registry.
Knowledge of technology solutions and ability to learn emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.
Ability to work cross-functionally, engage and influence audiences.
Excellent organizational skills and customer-facing communication.
Proficiency in documentation and knowledge transfer using remote meetings, written documents, and technical diagrams slide decks.
Experience in implementing hybrid connectivity using VPN or Cloud Interconnect is a plus.
Nice to have: 2 Google Cloud professional certifications (GCP Architect Certification, other certifications for Google, Kubernetes, or Terraform a plus.)
A Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering, Data Science, Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Computer Science, or a related field.

Cloud Architect – Contract

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