Cloudways is hiring people who already did an amazing job in a System Architect capacity, and are ready to take the next level of an exciting challenge. Our ideal candidate is a customer-focused individual that leverages his/her technical expertise over GCP/GKE. 

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Create and deliver best practices and recommendations to develop highly scalable and available cloud based systems that serve millions of internet and mobile facing applications
• Lead requirements gathering, analysis and solution development for GCP/GKE cloud-based solutions
• Architect, design and implement systems for deploying complex application workloads on GCP in Kubernetes and GKE
• Architect highly available solutions with backup and disaster recovery
• Partner with project teams, functional architects, systems specialists and other technical resources
• Lead a project in a hands-on role driving GCP cloud development, design and delivery from inception to production
• Mentor and provide technical oversight and guidance to implementation teams while working in a coordinated manner to deliver and deploy the designed architecture
• Collects and defines technical requirements to enable business processes and integrations
• Establish governance and enforce quality standards for cloud software and infrastructure architectures (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS)
• Review and evaluate existing systems architectures and software products to identify cloud platforming and refactoring opportunities
• Work closely with leadership and stakeholders to gather technical requirements, architect solutions, and drive high priority customer initiatives
• Provide Cloud/GCP thought leadership to the engineering teams by mentoring and coaching engineers, administrators, and developers to ensure that architecture and requirements best practices are followed
• Maintain clear documentation and standards for cloud operations in the organization
• Stay up to date on emerging technology trends and promote an environment of learning
• Responsible for monitoring the production environment and also advancing the obtainable monitoring setup as needed
• Performs other relevant job duties as required

Job Specification:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related discipline desired, or relevant Cloud Operations Engineering work experience.
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related discipline desired, or relevant Cloud Operations Engineering work experience is preferred.
• Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect or experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - Preferred
• Overall 8+ years of experience in the development role out of which 5+ years of experience must be as an enterprise systems architect in a cloud computing environment - GCP preferred
• Experience in cloud computing (e.g., applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms, data), as well as cloud market and competitive dynamics.
• Experience leading and designing large-scale network implementations to GCP (i.e. Google Cloud Load Balancing, DNS, CDN, Storage, DR, Security, Monitoring, etc.)
• Experience with establishing technical strategy and architecture of highly scalable cloud-based systems
• Experience in designing scalable solutions including high availability, redundancy, fail-over and load balancing
• Strong expertise in GCP services (i.e. Cloud Services Platform, Google Kubernetes Engine, Compute Engine, Cloud Interconnect

Experience leading GCP Cloud project delivery, i.e. responsible for:

• Project deliverables
• Technical and architecture design, implementation and oversight
• Project delivery approach
• Delivery performance - working with delivery and PM teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, technical mentoring and leadership skills
• Experience leading and working with diverse geographically distributed teams