Core Associate Architect

Senior / Lead GCP Platform Engineer - Skills Breakdown
Large Organisation Experience
Experience using multi-project organisational structures.
Strong knowledge of GCP services, including but not limited to:
Hands-on GCP networking skills (e.g. Shared Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), subnetworks, Firewall Rules, Cloud Router, Cloud DNS, Load Balancing, Interconnect, etc.).
Thorough understanding of networking concepts, especially TCP/IP, IP addressing and subnet calculation.
Solid experience with GCP Security services; Identity and Access Management (IAM), Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP), Key Management Service (KMS), Cloud Security Command Center, Secrets Manager, Resource Manager, etc.
Good knowledge of various GCP Integration patterns, Cloud Functions with Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage and Cloud SQL.
Any workload-related experience is a bonus, e.g. Kubernetes Engine, Google Compute Engine, App Engine, etc.
Containerization experience with Docker and GKE (preferred)
Infrastructure as a Code and Scripting:
Solid hands-on experience with declarative languages, Google Cloud Deployment Manager (& Terraform preferred) and their capabilities
Comfortable with Bash scripting, and at least one programming language (Python or Go preferred).
Sound knowledge of secure coding practices, and configuration/secrets management
Knowledge in writing unit and integration tests.
Experience in writing infrastructure unit tests; Terratest preferred
Solid understanding of CI/CD
Solid understanding of zero-downtime deployment patterns
Experience with automated continuous integration testing, including security testing using SAST tools
Experience in automated CI/CD pipeline tooling;
Cloud Build preferred Experience in creating runners, Docker images
Experience using version control systems such as Git
Exposed to, and comfortable working on large source code repositories in a team environment.
Solid expertise with Git and Git workflows, working within mid to large (infra) product development teams
General / Infrastructure Experience
Experience with cloud ops (DNS, Backups, cost optimization, capacity management, monitoring/alerting, patch management, etc.)
Exposure to complex application environments, including containerized as well as serverless applications
Windows and/or Linux systems administration experience (preferred)
Experience with Active Directory (preferred)
Exposure to multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure
Exposure to large-scale on-premise to cloud infrastructure migrations
Solid experience in working with mission-critical production systems