Solution Architect - GCP Cloud

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Job Description:

 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.

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