EPAM Systems, Inc. is looking for Professional Cloud Architect for Google Cloud Platform Solution Practice team. As an Architect, you become responsible for the design and development of next-generation hybrid cloud platform solutions and supervising their implementation across different clients and engineering teams, ensuring that the industry best practices incorporated. RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Architecture design of holistic Cloud data ecosystem with a focus on Google Cloud Platform capabilities and features
• Architecture design of Production, Staging / QA, and Development infrastructures running is 24 / 7 environments
• Robust and consistent Cloud Strategy design aligned with business objectives
• Provide guidelines for infrastructure migration approaches and techniques including numerous applications migrations into the cloud and implementation of hybrid cloud solutions within regulated enterprise environments
• Evangelize Cloud computing expertise internally and externally to drive Cloud Adoption. The candidate becomes a valuable member of EPAM’s Google Cloud
• Platform Solution Practice in North America, providing Cloud expertise within the team

CONSULTING SKILLS:

• In-depth cloud professional, competent in quickly establishing connections and credibility in how to address the business needs via design and operate cloud-based architectures
• Strong written, verbal and mock-up skills
• Experience in Agile or PMI methodology managed projects is appreciated
• Experience in enterprise applications and big data center infrastructures
• Experience in platform and cloud migrations, including migration factory
• Work experience with geographically distributed teams and off-shore models

PRIMARY TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer
• Implementation experience with identity management and networking segmentation in GCP across multiple VPC networks and multiple projects
• In-depth understanding and knowledge of distributed version control systems like Git
• Extensive experience with DevOps techniques and processes related to cloud solutions. CI / CD tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, GCP Deployment Manager
• Broad knowledge of troubleshooting approaches and driving-to-resolution technical integration issues across various platforms
• Solid understanding and practical knowledge of hybrid environments with operating systems that belong to Windows and *nix families, MS SQL Server and Oracle
• Database
• Strong understanding of concepts and experience with StackDriver and other cloud-based monitoring tools including application level and logging

SECONDARY TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Creation of automated tooling for cloud platforms as well as monitoring and alerting purposes
• Experience in architecting and running consumer-facing applications in a hybrid, multi-cloud environment
• Experience with performance testing and tuning
• Experience with GCP based security hardening including IAM, ACL, firewall rules, data traffic encryption