Valtech is looking for a Google Cloud Architect (all genders) to join our growing team. If you are passionate about building valuable, innovative and inspiring cloud solutions with a desire to continually learn as part of a collaborative and supportive team, read on!
MACH
Valtech is a founding member of MACH Alliance, a group that educates enterprises on best-of-breed Microservices, APIs, Cloud, and Headless (MACH) technology. Among the projects delivered work for Levi’s, BMW Online Store, and Aerolíneas Argentinas.
A day in the life of a Google Cloud Architect (all genders)
Reporting to the Google Cloud Solutions Director, we seek a Google Cloud Architect (all genders) who can bridge the gap between technology and business. You will play a pivotal role in driving Google Cloud adoption by providing expert technical guidance, crafting tailored solutions, and fostering strong partnerships.
Your responsibilities will encompass pre-sales activities, architectural design, solution development, and ongoing support, ensuring that clients maximize the value of Google Cloud technologies.
Your main responsibilities
- Provide leadership and expertise to internal and customer teams, helping them design and implement robust solutions on Google Cloud
- Provide technical presales expertise on new opportunities, contributing to requirements gathering, proposals and SOWs
- Provide consultancy to clients on their Google Cloud architectural and engineering practices, delivering workshops as necessary
- Work across a variety of projects, such as:
- Modern data, AI and GenAI projects, using the latest technology on Google’s platform
- Greenfield Google Cloud solutions and applications
- Workload migration, and application and infrastructure modernisation programmes
- Consult with development teams in the software development and release processes to Google Cloud, promoting Google Cloud usage and assisting with the design and architecture of proof of concepts for new cloud solutions
- Produce high quality documentation as part of your solution development
- Be a point of contact into Google, liaising with the Google Partner and Customer
- Engineers to ensure our sales and project teams receive the required support from the vendor
- Assist the Solutions Director in developing our capabilities and services portfolio.
- Attend Google Cloud technical events and briefings, using new knowledge gained to help enable the wider team
- Be an advocate for Google Cloud amongst colleagues, providing a valuable contribution and helping to build the internal Google Cloud community
- Strong, successful candidates can expect accelerated career development opportunities within the Google Cloud practice
You and the role
You are someone with +2 years with core Google Cloud services, such as IAM, networking, security and operations and a strong technical background, with at least +5 years of experience in a relevant role, such as development, architecture, or site reliability engineering.
We would love if you have
- Solid understanding and experience building systems using Google Cloud’s compute services, such as Compute Engine, and serverless platforms like Cloud Run and App Engine
- Experience of designing solutions using Google Cloud database services, such as Cloud SQL, Spanner or AlloyDB
- Experience with Google Cloud data technologies (e.g. BigQuery, Dataflow)
- Experience with Google Cloud’s wider portfolio, such as Vertex AI
- A professional-level Google Cloud certification, such as Professional Cloud Architect or Professional Cloud Developer
- Commitment to integrating security best practices in daily tasks and projects
- Excellence in dynamic technical landscapes and swift adaptation to deliver effectively in new environments
- Skills in collaborative projects with distributed teams and working with agile methodologies such as Scrum
- Excellent communication skills, with a high standard of spoken and written English
- Willingness to stay updated on key Google Cloud technologies and innovations
- Internal drive to learn, improve and succeed
Could be nice to have
- Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools, such as Terraform, and a clear understanding of infrastructure pipeline concepts
- Knowledge of containerisation and orchestration with Kubernetes
- Experience designing and implementing multi-cloud solutions
- Additional certifications in AWS or Azure
- Knowledge of general programming languages, such as Java and Python
What you can expect from us
Link to our benefits / advantages.
Apart from the benefits listed above, we have more to offer. Our growth development program, for example, to help you excel in your existing profession, or enable you to explore another. Also, there are plenty of internal initiatives for you to take part in. Whether it's about improving Valtech as a business or contributing to the world around us, we encourage our employees to pursue their professional and personal ambitions.
Join Valtech
Not only can you help us lead the experience revolution, but you can lead the change. The journey Valtech is on is ambitious and therefore opens doors. The more we grow – the more opportunities there are to take responsibility, implement your creative ideas, and be the innovator and driver to help move us, and our clients, forward.
Does it excite you to join Valtech on this journey? And would you like to become our next Google Cloud Architect (all genders)?
Then apply today. We cannot wait to hear from you!
As per the AGG (General Equal Treatment Act) in Germany and equivalent in France, jobs must be advertised in a gender-neutral manner. We use the statement (all genders) to make it clear that this position is open to all genders in these countries, even if the job title itself can be translated or interpreted as "masculine" in the French or German language.