DevOps Architect - Google Cloud
Pythian , United States

• Working alongside the Pythian Sales team as a technical leader and experienced data professional to meet with potential customers and win deals
• Providing advanced DevOps consulting which may be in the form of pre-created workshops or custom consulting
• Designing cloud-based architectures usually leverage Google Cloud
• Provide oversight to solutions once in the delivery phase
• Be a trusted adviser to Pythian's customers, building trust, providing technical leadership and managing client relationships with regards to the current project to which the Architect is assigned.
• Work with stakeholders to discover technical and business requirements, assist in project plan creation and documentation for projects of all sizes.
• Participate and at time lead sprint planning activities including story point estimation and ceremonies such as standups, backlog grooming and story refinement, planning and retrospectives.
• Implement technical project work and deliver to clients.
• Research, evaluate, and recommend third party software and technology packages.
• Provide component or site-wide performance optimization and capacity planning.
• Make and document best practice recommendations.
• Create automated provisioning solutions for servers, environments, cloud, container platforms and data centers

• While we realize you might not have everything on the list, to be the successful candidate for the DevOps Architect job you will likely have prior experience as a DevOps Architect or Cloud Solutions Architect and specialized knowledge and experience in the following:
• A strong understanding and experience with Cloud architectures specifically: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS) with a focus on the infrastructure services
• Strong knowledge of automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, ideally with hands-on experience with Kubernetes and tools such as Helm and Istio.
• Hands on experience with IaC and CI/CD tools and workflows on Microsoft Azure, such as ARM templates, Terraform/Terragrunt, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, ArgoCD, etc
• Development workflows / patterns including Gitops, automated testing frameworks, gitflow vs trunk based development, etc
• Proficiency in at least one popular programming language (Java, Python, Go, Node.js etc) and be able to write scripts for maintenance and automation in a variety of languages (e.g. Bash, Python, Ruby, or Powershell etc).
• Experience with common configuration management tools (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc)
• Knowledge of cloud based ingestion and transformation tools
• Prior experience in a technical sales environment
• Consulting experience amp; Management experience would be nice to have
• A certification such as Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, Google Cloud Professional Engineer or related AWS Certified Solutions Architect / DevOps or Microsoft Azure Architect would also be great

• Love your career: Competitive total rewards package with an annual bonus
• Love your development: Hone your skills or learn new ones with our substantial training allowance; participate in professional development days, attend conferences, become certified, whatever you like!
• Love your work/life balance: Why commute? Work remotely from your home (forever), there’s no daily travel requirement to an office!, You can be located anywhere in the US, all you need is a stable internet connection.
• Love your workspace: We give you all the equipment you need to work from home including a laptop with your choice of OS, and an annual budget to personalise your work environment!
• Love your community:Blog during work hours; take a day off and volunteer for your favorite charity.

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