Enterprise Cloud Architect

Join SADA as an Enterprise Cloud Architect, Infrastructure- GCP! 

Your Mission

As an Enterprise Cloud Architect at SADA, with a specialization in Infrastructure, Networking and Security, you will have significant knowledge and experience with “everything cloud infrastructure related.” You will have held different roles throughout your extensive career enabling you to work with many different technologies and industries.

As part of your role, you will collaborate with various teams, including customers, engineering, sales, and Googlers.

You will oversee GCP Infrastructure projects for large and intricate client engagements, sometimes acting as our “account CTO.”  You’ll run discovery calls, workshops, etc to work with customers, Google and Sada. You’ll provide estimations and work on Statements of Work (SOW) and supporting material. You will design world-class hybrid-multi-cloud solutions and solve hard problems.

You will have a hands-on approach, researching and presenting solutions, conducting experiments, and building prototypes to validate ideas and demonstrate the effectiveness of the solutions you recommend. You will also spearhead the implementation of projects and lead other engineers to deliver on your vision.

SADA is a services-focused company and you will have the opportunity to support customers spanning every industry--including gaming, logistics, financial, healthcare, retail, and SaaS--each with different use cases and objectives. You will obtain a breadth of skills and experience unparalleled at other companies.

What you would be doing on a daily basis:

• Work on different types of projects in various stages of development, including pre-sales/scoping, discovery, and architecting solutions
• Oversee executing projects that could be greenfield GCP landing zone implementations, public cloud re-platforming to GCP, migrations of data centers, or optimizing existing Infrastructure
• Prototype Proof of Concepts for customer/team feedback
• Assess existing and design new secure cloud architectures
• Design and implement advanced security controls in collaboration with customers
• Quality-Review solutions delivered by other engineers on the project
• Deliver hands-on technical mentoring and leadership to engineers on the project, especially when using niche architectural patterns. Keep the communication channels with the client transparent to update on progress, gather feedback, and evaluate opportunities.
• Assist the Project Managers and Clients in making high-impact decisions to improve the quality/time-to-market delivery where relevant.
• Stay current with leading-edge cloud security technologies, products, and best practices

Pathway to Success 

Your super-power will be in helping customers understand specifically how Google Cloud technology can fundamentally solve their business challenges with technology, enabling them to meet their goals. 
You will inspire cross-functional leadership from our engineering teams. You will be trusted to guide large enterprise engagements and given the freedom to build new solutions that meet customer needs.

You will establish yourself as a renowned specialist within SADA, earning a reputation with customers and the Google Cloud sales and professional services teams for your wide-ranging domain knowledge. Other engineers and architects will routinely defer to your expertise when it comes to the delivery of secure project architectures. In your role, you'll manage client-oriented technical conversations. Collaborating with client architects and technology heads, you will design expansive and extended client initiatives.

Success will be measured by Client satisfaction, deals won, and your contributions to the team’s goals.

Expectations

Required Travel - Up to 25% travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events. 

Customer Facing - This is a customer-facing role. You will interact with customers on a daily basis. You will participate in calls and customer meetings to qualify for consultative engagements with engineering and business teams. You will present solutions, architectures, SOWs, demos, and other technical materials to build trust and confidence in SADA’s ability to take the customer through their cloud adoption. 

Onboarding/Training - The first several weeks of onboarding are dedicated to learning and will encompass learning materials/assignments, compliance training, and meetings with relevant individuals. Details of the timeline are shared closer to the start date.

Job Requirements

Required Credentials:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Information Technology, or 8 years of relevant work experience architecting and operating cloud services.

Google Professional Cloud Architect Certified and/or Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer Certified, or able to complete one of the above within the first 45 days of employment. 

Required Qualifications: 

• Demonstrated experience designing highly available, secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable cloud architectures for enterprise clients and managing them in production.
• Deep understanding of networking concepts, security best practices, and compliance requirements within cloud environments.
• Deep understanding of security products and the principles of zero trust architecture, especially BeyondCorp Enterprise
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience in leading intricate, long-term customer projects. Examples may include transitioning from one cloud to another or migrating an enterprise data center to the cloud.
• Experience providing leadership, supervision, and direction in data-oriented projects, ideally in a high-growth organization.
• Technical mastery of networking, VPNs, compute infrastructure (servers, databases, firewalls, load balancers, etc), and architecting/developing/maintaining production-grade systems in virtualized environments.
• Applied experience migrating complex, multi-tiered workloads from on-prem to the cloud, including provisioning the target infrastructure and executing cutover plans that minimize system downtime. 
• Experience facilitating technical design sessions, architecting and documenting infrastructure/networking/security solutions aligned with client business objectives, and identifying gaps between the client's current and desired end states.
• Applied experience delivering continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines, utilizing techniques like blue/green and canary deployments, with tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, TravisCI, and Spinnaker.
• Working knowledge of systems monitoring, capacity planning, and performance tuning.
• Experience writing software in one or more languages such as Go and Python
• Ability to evaluate and select suitable technologies and frameworks to meet specific project needs, while assessing risks and trade-offs.
• Ability to architect, scope, and prioritize work based on feedback from the customer or internal teams.
• Experience working with customers in a consulting capacity, including persuading them to adopt more efficient technologies and processes.
• Deep knowledge of cloud-native architectures, service meshes, containerization, and Kubernetes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Time management skills with the ability to manage multiple streams.
• Enthusiasm for learning new technologies, industry trends, and best practices in data architecture and cloud computing.
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing business requirements and technologies in a fast-paced environment delivering real-time data applications using streaming data technologies like Apache Kafka, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, or Amazon Kinesis.
• Experience using Google Cloud Platform, particularly GKE, Cloud Run, Anthos, and VPC, Load Balancers, Compute Engine.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Familiarity with VMware, Google Compute VMware Engine.
• Experience with cloud data offerings and solutions (Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS).