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 Googles 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: Bachelors 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 Googles 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