GCP Cloud Architect

Joining Nordcloud is the chance of a lifetime to leave your mark on the European IT industry! We use an agile, cloud-native approach to empower clients to seize the full potential of the public cloud.

Your Daily Work

• Participating in customer projects from new infrastructure builds and migrations to big data
• Day-to-day hands-on work can be from implementing CM infrastructure to taking a step back and giving workshops and design recommendations to a technical team
• Being a trusted advisor for high-profile enterprises and jointly managing the customer relationship and roadmap with the Nordcloud Sales team
• Seeing through customer projects from start to release

Your Skills And Attributes Of Success

• Expert-level knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (AWS and/or Azure is a plus)
• Background as Linux OR Windows system administrator or backend developer would be ideal
• Coding/scripting skills (Bash, Python, etc.)
• Hands-on experience in creating solution architectures, as well as designing and implementing landing zone architectures
• Infrastructure as a Code skill (i.e. CDK, Terraform, Deployment Manager, and similar)
• Experience in building CI/CD pipelines and container technologies (e.g. Docker)
• At least theoretical knowledge of container orchestration technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Swarm, or OpenShift)
• Willingness to experiment with and learn brand-new technologies (e.g. Anthos)
• Knowledge of on-premises technologies (e.g. VMware, OpenStack, or Hyper-V)
• Knowledge of security, network, virtualization, load balancers, storage, and databases
• Experience or interest in learning more about Big Data / Machine Learning projects is an asset
• An active customer-oriented consultancy mindset and pre-sales attitude are a must
• Fluent communication skills in English and Finnish

All in all, you have a solid engineering or technical background with hands-on experience in conceptualizing, strategizing, and architecting cloud solutions. As you work with customers, solid social skills are a must. To us delivering quality solutions is more important than just “getting the job done”.

What do we offer in return?

• A highly skilled multinational team
• Individual training budget and exam fees for partner certifications (Azure, AWS, GCP) and additional certification bonus covered by Nordcloud
• Access to join and the possibility to create knowledge-sharing sessions within a community of leading cloud professionals
• Flexible working hours and freedom to choose your tools (laptop and smartphone) and ways of working
• Freedom to work fully remotely within the country of Finland
• Local benefits such as extensive private health care and insurance, wellness benefits

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About Nordcloud

Nordcloud, an IBM company, is a European leader in cloud advisory, implementation, application development, managed services, and training. It’s a recognized cloud-native pioneer with a proven track record of helping organizations leverage the public cloud in a way that balances quick wins, immediate savings, and sustainable value. Nordcloud is triple-certified across Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Amazon Web Services – and is a Visionary in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud IT Transformation Services. Nordcloud has 10 European hubs, over 1500 employees, and counting, and has delivered over 1,000 successful cloud projects.

Learn more at nordcloud.com