Job Description

About us- We are technologists at heart, who love what we do.
At Quickplay we believe in transparency, fairness, and collaboration while we passionately work on some of the toughest use cases in OTT video, and enthusiastic about massive scale and agility. If you get excited about building the future of OTT video and aspire to be part of a high-performing, learning-oriented, and caring culture-you have landed on the right company.
As a GCP Engineer, you will be responsible for the design, delivery, and operation of core infrastructure platforms and services (cloud, server, network, database, backup, voice/UC, etc.) that are critical to the success of the Quickplay services. You will work with IT Leadership, IT peers, and key stakeholders to drive strategy, improve quality, provide visibility, and design infrastructure platforms and services to meet the needs of Quickplay’s customers, engineering teams and service partners. You will be the principal engineering resource for highly visible critical projects for the organization and our top clients. This is a technically hands-on role requiring strong cross-group collaboration. You will work with cross-functional teams across the globe spanning customer engineering, solution architects, account management, product management, engineering, and UX.
About the role-
Primarily focused on:

• Responsible for implementation of infrastructure components including engineering, design, installation as well as operational support issues for CICD pipeline, POCs & pre production environments for all Clients of Quickplay.
• Managing the IT infrastructure resources, including drafting and executing its budget, developing its organizational structure
• Ability to drive business opportunities, lead a solution discussion on the architecture with excellent communication and presentation skills to various stakeholders
• Provide domain expertise around public cloud, hybrid cloud and on-prem solutions
• Develop and deliver agile and cost-effective hosting solutions. Implement scalable, high performance hosting solutions that meet the needs of corporate and digital applications using both private and public cloud technologies.
• Plan and deliver legacy infrastructure transformation and migration to drive next-generation business outcomes.
• Oversee application architecture and deployment in cloud platform environments - including public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud. This can include cloud adoption plans, cloud application design, and cloud management and monitoring.
• Build a trusted advisory relationship with strategic accounts and engage with Architects, VP engineering, CTO and CIO, and identify customer priorities, technical objections, and design strategies encompassing the entire Google ecosystem to deliver business value and resolve blockers.
• Make recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution providing best practice advice to customers to optimize Google Cloud effectiveness.
• Manage the holistic enterprise architecture relationship with customers by collaborating with specialists, product management, engineering, and more.
• **Quickplay staff reports into offices in a hybrid capacity (i.e partially at home, and partially at the office based on role/team needs) leveraging safety protocols aligned with local public health guidelines as they relate to COVID-19.

About You—
Experience & Technical Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8 years of experience as an enterprise architect in either a cloud computing environment or equivalent experience in a customer-facing role
• Experience in cloud computing (e.g., applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms, data), as well as cloud market and competitive dynamics
• Have a strong understanding of the SRE practice concepts and Google Cloud services such as GCE, App Engine, Cloud Functions, Bigtable, BigQuery, BORG cluster architecture, Colossus, Anthos (GKE), and other Google services
• Experience with GCP Hybrid and Multi-Cloud technologies such as Google Kubernetes Engine, GKE On-Prem, Istio on GKE (beta), Anthos Config Management, Serverless, Stackdriver etc.
• Experience engaging in architecture discussions and best practice
• Experience in one or more of the following: virtualization, development and operations of cloud/hybrid infrastructure, enterprise applications, cloud-native applications, networking, security, IaaS, PaaS, or managed services
• Ability to groom, develop an incredible team of hardworking and motivated engineers, and instill a culture centered around development, execution, and accountability
• Knowledge of and work experience across multiple functional areas such as product management, engineering, UX/UI, partner/channel development, customer enablement, product operations, and marketing

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