Google Cloud Practice Architect

Job Summary:  Rackspace Technology is a leading provider of expertise and managed services across all the major public and private cloud technologies. We’ve evolved Fanatical Support to encompass the entire customer journey — providing Fanatical Experience™ from first consultation to daily operations. Our passionate experts combine the power of proactive, always-on service and expertise with best-in-class tools and automation to deliver technology when and how our customers need it.

As part of our commitment to our customers, we are dedicated to helping enable creative, automation-based solutions for all sizes of businesses and require an experienced Cloud Engineer to join our team.

The ideal candidate will have several years’ experience with Google Cloud design and implementation. You will be working in a dynamic environment and encouraged to come up with innovative solutions to technical problems, analyze and prioritize problems, putting users at the heart of every decision.

You will ideally have proven experience in multiple GCP deployments. Your engagements will see you working directly with customers and prospects. You will have confidence in knowing your skills (and limitations), you are calm and collected under pressure and always available to mentor the less experienced. Your colleagues see you as a good team player who is keen to share knowledge as well as to listen and learn from others.

Work Location: Remote

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver proof-of-concept projects, technical workshops, and lead implementation projects.

• Focus on key customer solutions such as web applications, enterprise applications, archiving and disaster recovery, education, and government.

• Creating, articulating, and positioning an innovative and compelling value proposition so that customer executives clearly realize the benefits and transformation value of migrating to GCP.

• Defining and executing technical migration and modernization strategies by working with highly technical teams.

• Deliveringmodern architectures such as microservices and event driven architectures using managed services and cloud native capabilities.

• Engaging with development, infrastructure, security, and IT operations teams at the customer and identifying repeatable patterns and architectures fo rcloud migration.

• Identifying platform improvements, influencing future iterations of the GCP platform.

Qualifications:

• Security in GCP

• Networking in GCP

• GKE and overall compute in GCP, including GCE

• GCP Storage - Spanner, CloudSQL, MemoryStore, GCS, etc.

• Automation and operations in GCP

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in ComputerScience, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field.

• 3+years of design, implementation, or consulting experienc ein applications or infrastructures.

• 5+ years within specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, Automation, and operations)

• 3+yrs experience in a Solutions Architect, Enterprise Architect, or Lead Architect role leading the discovery, design, and construction of fullstack custom and commercial off the shelf applications.

• Multi-tier distributed architecture experience within IT consulting, IT operations, application development or support to include the following: experience migrating, architecting, operating onpremises or cloud-based solutions, or experience transforming legacy IT solutions, and working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies.

• Experience architecting, designing, migrating workloads to thepublic cloud.

• Deep level understanding of various migration techniques such as re-host, refactor, re-architect, re-platform, repurchase,etc.

• Expert Knowledge of Google services such as compute, GKE, GCE, Spanner, GCS, Networking and Security.

• Deep understanding of GCP Ecosystem

• In depth understanding of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing and firewalls.

• Extensive expertise in designing systems with high availability, resilience, and fault tolerance, incorporating load balancing, horizontal/vertical scaling, and ensuring continuous availability.

• Strong track record of implementing GCP services in a variety of distributed computing environments.

• Experience in infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g.,Shell,Python, Ruby, PowerShell)

• Experience with software development lifecycle(SDLC) and agile/iterative Methodologies.

• Scripting and/or coding skills (Examples include but are not limited to: Java(OR)Python(OR)Terraform,PowerShell (OR) Bash)

• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Salt, Chef, Puppet.

• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery(CI/CD) frameworks and tools such as, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Gitlab CI, Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy.

• Direct hands-on experience leading the design, development, and deployment of business software at scale or recent hands-on technology infrastructure, network, compute, storage, and virtualization experience.

• Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements(eg. security,privacy,SOX,HIPAA etc.)

• Experience in a range of migration discovery, profiling, migration, automation, and operations technologies and tools.

• Willingness to travel to customer locations as needed.

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For applicants working in California, Colorado, Washington, or New York City, we are excited to share the base salary ranges for this position exclusive of fringe benefits or potential bonus.  The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. The anticipated starting pay range of California, Washington state and New York City applicants for this role is $122,600 - $163,130. The anticipated starting pay range of Colorado applicants for this role is $118,500 - $149,100. Unless already included in the posted pay range and based on eligibility, the role may include variable compensation in the form of bonus commissions, or other discretionary payments.  The discretionary payments are based on company and/or individual performance and may change at any time.  Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location.

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About Rackspace Technology

We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.

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Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.