Google Cloud Platform Architect

Company description

About us

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. 

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. 

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Job description

We are looking for an experienced person to join, and be instrumental within, our Google Alliance team. This is a critical role, one that will stretch you personally and professionally, and require you to utilise your creative, cognitive, and emotional intelligence.  Therefore we expect that:

• You are pragmatic and already understand that building a platform is only part of what a cloud engineering entails.
• You can clearly communicate with both clients and peers, describing technical issues and solutions in both written and meeting/workshop contexts.
• You are a confident problem solver and troubleshooter.
• You are confident and generous in sharing your specialist knowledge, ideas and solutions.
• You know when a platform is "fit for purpose".
• You are constantly learning and able to make others better by consciously teaching and unconsciously inspiring.
• You are obsessed with ensuring PA’s reputation and credibility is always regarded at a remarkably elevated level, and unafraid to initiate corrective actions should this not be at our desired level.

As a GCP Technical Lead, you'll be a true subject matter expert for delivering ingenious solutions on the Google Cloud Platform. We'll be looking at you to set direction and take responsibility for successfully achieving an outcome or deliverable. You may have a team of people to support, leading a development team, or else you could be working across multiple teams, providing some centralised expertise necessary for a larger program of work.

• You'll have expertise in architecture and will feel comfortable leading higher level architectural discussions.
• Using your experience of the DevSecOps processes, it’s likely you’ll own the overall process across a team, or multiple teams, building strong principles and putting robust methods and patterns in place.
• You will be comfortable having conversations with the client regularly, being one of the main points of engagement between the client and the project.
• Coaching and mentoring the team will be important in the role.
• You'll play an active role in technical account management.

As part of this role you will design ingenious GCP-enabled solutions and services for brilliant clients across industry sectors.  You will learn and grow – PA will support your to further develop your specialisations and increase your GCP certifications.  Expect a sleeves-up, fully associated, and immersive working week. All our people are client facing and empowered to fulfil the best outcome for their clients. 

Flexible working - We are guided by our client work and needs; however, you have autonomy to manage your time and diary to suit your work/life balance.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you will need to have knowledge of the following products and deep experience in one more of the categories:

• Serverless: Cloud Run, Cloud Functions
• Kubernetes Engine, Compute Engine
• VPC networks and Service Perimeters
• BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner and Firestore
• API management including Apigee or Cloud Endpoints
• Data analytics services including Dataproc, Dataflow, Data Fusion and Cloud Composer
• Security controls, including Cloud IAM, PAM, VPC Service Controls and Security Command Centre

Additionally you should have a sound understanding of the following Architectural principles:

• Microservices patterns
• Event-driven architectures and message queues
• Relational and non-relational databases
• Development and/or scripting experience (e.g. Python, Node, Bash)
• Security best practices for access control, data protection and communications.

In addition to the above, we would be thrilled if you also had:

• Knowledge of other cloud platforms
• Automation DevOps experience using Google tech like Cloud Build and open source tech like terraform

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application

Additional information

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

We believe diversity fuels ingenuity. Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge, and diversity of skills brings the tools we need. When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds, identities, and minds, embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive; we unleash the power of diversity – bringing ingenuity to life.

Find out more about Life at PA here.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.