Cloud Architect

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Chicago, IL
In-Office
Senior level
Cloud • Information Technology
The Role
The Cloud Architect will build advisory relationships with clients, design GCP solutions, ensure security and reliability, and promote Google Cloud technology.
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Overview of 66degrees

66degrees is an end-to-end AI transformation partner that guides enterprises from complex business challenges to clear, quantifiable outcomes. Our company is the culmination of several successful firms, each a leader in its own right in cloud, artificial intelligence, and data. This convergence of talent and expertise is how we help businesses reach their own "inflection point," where chaotic data becomes a strategic asset, complexity becomes clarity, and AI becomes an engine for growth. Our ultimate vision is to be the catalyst for a future where every business operates as an intelligent enterprise, with autonomous systems unlocking human potential.

At 66degrees, we believe in thriving through challenges and winning together. These values not only guide us in achieving our goals as a company but also for our people. We are dedicated to creating a significant impact for our employees by fostering a culture that sparks innovation and supports professional and personal growth along the way.

Overview of Role

66degrees is looking for creative, dedicated, and personable technology business professionals for a Cloud Architect position. We are looking for someone with a broad range of technical and consulting skills and aptitude. Our ideal candidate will display relentless curiosity and drive around how we organize ourselves and deploy/use technology to ensure our clients GCP environments are reliable and secure. We are looking for the right fit with our growing organization and we will invest in training.

Responsibilities
  • Build a trusted advisory relationship with strategic accounts and engage with management.
  • Act as a technical subject matter expert, particularly regarding the Google Cloud ecosystem for business users, providing clear and concise explanations of complex concepts. 
  • Identify customer priorities, technical objections, and design strategies encompassing the Google ecosystem to deliver business growth and resolve blockers.
  • Lead requirements gathering and project scoping.
  • Solution design, problem-solving, and architecture diagramming. 
  • Provide domain expertise around public cloud and enterprise technology, and effectively promote Google Cloud with clients, at conferences, and online.
  • Provide technical expertise to the team on continuous integration/continuous delivery, infrastructure, monitoring, alerting, and security.
  • Provide recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure needed to implement a complete solution for clients.
  • Assist in delivering technical solutions to meet customer functional needs and improve service reliability, including CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure builds/migrations.
  • Provide Engineer-to-Engineer and Architect-to-Engineer support, including whiteboard sessions and informal Q&A.
  • Travel to customer sites, conferences, and other related events as required.
Qualifications
  • 5+ years of GCP experience is a must. Experience in other clouds is beneficial.
  • Proven experience in building, architecting, designing, and implementing globally distributed cloud-based systems, with a strong understanding of API-first design principles and API management platforms like Apigee.
  • Extensive experience with security (zero trust) and networking in cloud environments
  • Capable of advising and implementing CI/CD practices to clients using tools such as GitHub, GitLab, Cloud Build, and Cloud Deploy and concepts such as GitOps and GitFlow.
  • Experience in containerizing workloads using Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, and Artifact Registry.
  • Knowledge of technology solutions and ability to learn emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space.
  • Ability to work cross-functionally, engage and influence audiences.
  • Excellent organizational skills and customer-facing communication.
  • Proficiency in documentation and knowledge transfer using remote meetings, written documents, and technical diagrams slide decks.
  • Experience in implementing hybrid connectivity using VPN or Cloud Interconnect is a plus.
  • Nice to have: 2 Google Cloud professional certifications (GCP Architect Certification, other certifications for Google, Kubernetes, or Terraform a plus.)
  • A Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering, Data Science, Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Computer Science, or a related field.

66degrees is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, national origin, age, weight, height, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status or other legally protected class.

Top Skills

Apigee
Ci/Cd
Cloud Build
Cloud Deploy
Docker
Git
Gitlab
Google Cloud Platform
Helm
Kubernetes
Terraform
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The Company
HQ: Chicago, Illinois
564 Employees

What We Do

At 66degrees, we specialize in helping businesses across all industries modernize through cloud adoption to achieve data-driven transformation. As a pure play Google Cloud partner, our team of experts leverages the latest Google Cloud technologies and best practices to create customized solutions for each client.

We offer comprehensive advisory, implementation, and managed services to support our clients throughout their cloud journey. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in our partnership with our clients. We prioritize staying up-to-date with the latest cloud technologies and trends through training and certification. By enabling businesses to harness the power of data, we help them make informed decisions, enhance customer experiences, and drive growth.

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