Job Description

As a Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect at Pluto7, you will work collaboratively with other architects and engineers to design, prototype and lead the deployment of scalable Google Cloud Platform (GCP) architectures working across geographies and timezones. You will work with engineering teams, customers and sales teams to qualify potential engagements, craft robust architectural proposals, and deliver Statements of Work (SOWs) that delivery and solutions teams can successfully execute. You’re also hands-on, able to conduct experiments and build functioning prototypes that prove out ideas and build confidence in the solutions you advocate.

Pluto7 is a forward-thinking, Google Cloud Premier Partner, ranked by Google as one of the Top Partners with a focus on Supply Chain, ML, AI, Data Analytics services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Pluto7 is a tech-enabled solutions and services company that ignites digital transformation providing supply chain solutions across industries such as Retail, Manufacturing, Hi-tech, Healthcare and Automobile using AI/ML helping customers enable various Data Management processes and Smart Analytics frameworks to unify their data and move it to the cloud so that it’s ready for AI and ML applications. Pluto7 solves global-scale problems leveraging Smart Analytics in a simplistic way and Pluto7 services and AI solutions deliver innovation and intelligence to build a data-driven future allowing businesses to speed up and scale-out sophisticated machine learning models. Pluto7 has successfully guided many businesses through the digital transformation process by leveraging the power of Google Cloud. In an age where innovation is happening all around us, Pluto7 is on a mission to build a culture where employees are constantly learning, growing, and innovating while solving global-scale problems leveraging advanced technologies in a simplistic manner. We are a small but extremely impactful team, passionate about GCP and who love experimenting with new technologies creating innovative solutions. We are really excited to find people who have similar passions and are eager to innovate and solve customer problems. We closely partner with Google Industry solutions, Google Engineering, and various Google Cloud organizations

You will be a recognized expert within Pluto7 and will develop a reputation with customers as well as the Google Cloud sales and professional services organizations for the quality of your work. You will demonstrate repeated delivery of project architectures that other engineers and architects demur to you for lack of expertise. You will also lead early-stage opportunity technical qualification calls, as well as lead client-facing technical discussions. You will interact with customers on a regular basis, sometimes daily, other times weekly/bi-weekly. Common touchpoints occur when qualifying potential opportunities, at project kickoff, throughout the engagement as progress is communicated, and at project close. You can expect to interact with a range of customer stakeholders, including engineers, technical project managers, and executives

Role: Senior Cloud Architect
Experience: 7-10+Years
Key metrics of assessment include (a) the number of signed SOWs closing in sales funnel (b) customer satisfaction.

Required Travel: - 30% travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events.

Job Requirements:

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  Google Professional Cloud Architect Certified and/or Google Professional Data Engineer Certified , or able to complete one of the above within the first 45 days of employment.

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  Mastery in at least one of the following domain areas:
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  Infrastructure Modernization: migrating n-tiered workloads from on-prem and other clouds to GCP with near-zero-downtime (includes full spectrum of lift and shift to complete re-platforming scenarios), or building hybrid-cloud solutions based on Anthos and containerization technologies, such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Istio
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  Application Development: building custom web and mobile applications on top of the GCP stack
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  Data Engineering: data warehouse modernization (including technical architectures, star/snowflake schema designs, infrastructure components, ETL/ELT pipelines and reporting/analytic tools), OLTP/OLAP data migrations, or backup, restore and disaster recovery solutions.
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  Experience providing oversight and direction of cloud projects in manufacturing, healthcare or retail clients or companies would be beneficial in this new role
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  Experience leading technical design sessions, architecting and documenting technical solutions that are aligned with client business objectives, and identifying gaps between the client's current and desired end states
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  Experience strategizing, designing, architecting and leading the deployment of scalable solutions on GCP
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  Experience across multiple cloud platforms a plus, but expertise in at least one a must: GCP ( key focus), AWS, Azure
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  Experience with container engines: Kubernetes, Docker, AWS Elastic Container Service
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  Experience with automation technologies including Terraform, Google Cloud Deployment Manager, AWS Cloud Formation or Microsoft Azure Automation a plus
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  Experience working with engineering and sales teams to elicit customer requirements
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  Ability to communicate across business units and the ability to interface with and communicate complex technical concepts to a broad range of internal and external stakeholders
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  Time management skills with the ability to manage multiple streams and lead less experienced architects
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  Experience as a technical consultant or another customer-facing technical role

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  Hands-on experience designing and recommending elegant solutions that drive business outcomes
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  Experience building, designing and migrating complex cloud architectures
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  Strong aptitude for learning new technologies and techniques with a willingness and capability to skill up the team
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  Ability to lead an in-depth client meeting/workshop across a broad range of topics including discovery, cloud compliance, and security
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  Deep understanding of best practices, design patterns, reference and compliance architectures with an uncanny ability to build and recommend these as needed
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  Knowledge and understanding of industry trends, new technologies and the ability to apply these to customer architectures to drive outcomes
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  Highly self-motivated and able to work independently as well as in a team environment