Google Cloud Technical Lead - Strategic Cloud Architect
- city of westminster, england, United Kingdom
- Permanent·Hybrid
- Full time
- £70 - £90 Per Hour
Job Description
Managing Consultant - C&M - Google Cloud (Technical Lead)
- Full-time
- 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.
- 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.
- VPC networks and Service Perimeters
- BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner and Firestore
- Data analytics services including Dataproc, Dataflow, Data Fusion and Cloud Composer
- Security controls, including Cloud IAM, PAM, VPC Service Controls and Security Command Centre
- 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.
- Knowledge of other cloud platforms
- Automation DevOps experience using Google tech like Cloud Build and open source tech like terraform
- Introductory Callwith a senior Talent Acquisition Partner to explore your background, the opportunity, and PA.
- Round 1 :Three competency-based interviews with members of the team.
- Final Round :Business plan presentation to PA leaders—with guidance and prep time provided.
- 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 believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.
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Our teams of interdisciplinary 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.
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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:
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.
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.
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:
Additionally you should have a sound understanding of the following Architectural principles:
In addition to the above, we would be thrilled if you also had:
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.
Please not that the interview stages may be subject to change based on the specific requirements of the role.
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Hybrid Working - Our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on client site.
Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us
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