At 66degrees, we believe in embracing the challenge and winning together. These values not only guide us in achieving our goals as a company but also for our people. We are dedicated to creating a significant impact for our employees by fostering a culture that sparks innovation and supports professional and personal growth along the way.
Overview of Role 66degrees is looking for creative, dedicated, and personable technology business professionals for a Cloud Architect position. We are looking for someone with a broad range of technical and consulting skills and aptitude. Our ideal candidate will display relentless curiosity and drive around how we organize ourselves and deploy/use technology to ensure our clients GCP environments are reliable and secure. We are looking for the right fit with our growing organization and we will invest in training.
Responsibilities - Build a trusted advisory relationship with strategic accounts and engage with management.
- Identify customer priorities, technical objections, and design strategies encompassing the Google ecosystem to deliver business growth and resolve blockers.
- Lead requirements gathering and project scoping.
- Solution design, problem-solving, and architecture diagramming.
- Provide domain expertise around public cloud and enterprise technology, and effectively promote Google Cloud with clients, at conferences, and online.
- Provide recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure needed to implement a complete solution for clients.
- Lead planning, status, and standup meetings.
- Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as required.
Qualifications - 5+ years of GCP experience is a must. Experience in other clouds is beneficial.
- GCP Architect Certification required, other certifications for Google, Kubernetes, or Terraform a plus.
- Must have played 2+ years as a GCP Architect.
- Experience in building, architecting, designing, and implementing distributed global cloud-based systems.
- Extensive experience with security (zero trust) and networking in cloud environments
- Capable of advising and implementing CI/CD practices to clients using tools such as GitHub, GitLab, Cloud Build, and Cloud Deploy and concepts such as GitOps and GitFlow.
- Experience in containerising workloads using Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and Artifact Registry.
- Experience with structured Cloud Architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premises-to-cloud migration deployments and roadmaps.
- Knowledge of technology solutions and ability to learn emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.
- Ability to work cross-functionally, engage and influence audiences.
- Excellent organisational skills and customer-facing communication.
- Proficiency in documentation and knowledge transfer using remote meetings, written documents, and technical diagrams slide decks.
- Experience in implementing hybrid connectivity using VPN or Cloud Interconnect is a plus.
