Cloud Value Sr specialist
Cognizant
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Design and Implement GCP Infrastructure: Use Terraform to automate the provisioning of GCP resources (IaC) ensuring efficient and reliable deployments.
- Manage GKE Clusters: Provision and manage GKE clusters using Helm including StatefulSets following GCP best practises.
- CI-CD Pipeline Setup: Design and optimize CI-CD pipelines. Leverage GitHub Actions to trigger ArgoCD deployments in a GitOps workflow.
- Optimize Performance and Costs: Implement best practices for performance tuning and cost optimization of GCP services.
- Security and Compliance: Design and maintain security protocols and ensure compliance with industry standards.
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Set up and manage monitoring tools dashboards to ensure system reliability and quickly resolve issues.
- Collaboration: Work closely with development customer teams to streamline application deployments and improve operational efficiency.
- Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot and fine-tune performance of GCP PaaS components. Give infra sizing recommendations.
- Documentation: Document procedures policies and configurations for the infrastructure
Qualifications
- Possess a strong understanding of Google Cloud technologies including Migrate to Containers Cloud Source Repositories Container Registry and more.
- Have hands-on experience with container orchestration using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
- Demonstrate proficiency in automating build and deployment processes using Cloud Build and Cloud Deploy.
- Show expertise in managing and securing container images with Container Registry and Container Analysis.
- Be skilled in monitoring and optimizing cloud operations using Google Clouds Operations suite.
- Have experience in managing build artifacts with Artifact Registry.
- Nice to have domain skill experience in Devices / SPM.
- Exhibit strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex cloud issues.
- Possess excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Be adaptable to a hybrid work model and comfortable working in a dynamic environment.
- Show a commitment to continuous learning and staying updated with the latest cloud technologies.