Solution Architect - GCP Cloud

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Job Description:

Key Responsibilities:
 Participate in pre-sales activities, including solutioning, cost estimation, proposal presentations, and partner enablement sessions.
 Should be able to work independently on the Presales RFP/RFI to build solution proposals.
 Drive modernization initiatives leveraging a broad range of GCP services to improve performance and efficiency (conduct in-depth application and infrastructure assessments and define modernization and migration paths).
 Architect solutions on GCP-based cloud infrastructure, modernization of legacy applications to cloudnative architectures.
 Collaborate with stakeholders to articulate solution concepts and influence teams.
 Mentor partner engineering team and enforce best practices.
 Working closely with the sales team to qualify leads, present the solution effectively, answer technical questions, accompany the sales team to customer/partner locations across India (need basis) for partner/customer meetings, and represent Ingram Micro at various events/workshops.

Skills:
Strong working experience in Presales with a focus on Google’s GCP (Google Cloud Platform), Compute: Compute
Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, App Engine, Cloud Functions
Networking: VPC, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud CDN, Cloud Interconnect, Cloud Armor.
Database & Storage: AlloyDB, Cloud SQL, Spanner for relational workloads. Firestore, Bigtable for NoSQL applications
Security & IAM: Organization policies, IAM, Secret Manager, Certificate Manager, Security Command Center
Operations: Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Error Reporting, Cloud Trace.

Technical Skills:
 Proven experience with Google infra, GKE, Terraform, Observability, CI/CD, Databases, and modernization projects. Strong expertise in Google Cloud Infrastructure and product solutions, and services.
 Hands-on experience with GKE, Terraform, and CI/CD tools.
 Demonstrated success in legacy system migration and cloud modernization (VMs Workload & Database modernization (SQL Server to PostgreSQL/AlloyDB).
 Knowledge of observability frameworks (e.g., Prometheus and Grafana).
 Good understanding of networking, security, and cloud-native architectures
 Strong expertise Knowledge of security best practices in cloud and distributed systems.
 Multi-cloud architectures with Cross-Cloud Interconnect
 Exposure to Generative AI and agentic frameworks.

Required Qualifications:
 Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field. Relevant certifications are a plus.
 Experience: 8 to 10 years in IT architecture or Presales solutions roles.
Required: minimum 4 to 5 years focused on Google’s cloud/hybrid cloud, infrastructure modernization, or managed services.
 Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
 Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to design solutions that address customer needs and challenges.
 Presentation: Proven experience in delivering technical presentations and demonstrations to a variety of audiences. Preferred Qualifications:
 Additional Skills: Familiarity with cloud migration strategies, DevOps practices, and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

Certifications:
 Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect
 Optional: Google Cloud Certified, Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
 Professional Cloud Database Engineer
 Professional Cloud Network Engineer
 Associate Google Workspace Administrator