GCP Cloud

Role purpose: To Develop, build, implement and operate 24x7 Public Cloud infrastructure services mainly in to the AWS and technology solutions for European wide internal Vodafone applications and customers. To design, plan and implement a growing set of public cloud platforms and solutions used to provide mission critical infrastructure services to Vodafone internal customers. To constantly analyse, optimise, migrate and transform the global Vodafone legacy IT infrastructure environment into cloud ready & cloud native solutions and responsible for providing software-related operations support, including managing level two and level three incident and problem management.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

Manage project driven integration and day-to-day administration of cloud solutions

Develop prototypes, designing and building modules and solutions for Cloud Platforms in an iterative agile cycles, develop, maintain, and optimize the business outcome

Conduct peer reviews and maintain coding standards

Driving Cloud solution automation and integration activity for Cloud Provider – GCP/AWS and Tenant (Project) workloads.

Build and deploy AWS cloud infrastructure by using cloud formation and terraform scripts. Use Ansible & Python to perform routines tasks like user management and security hardening, etc.

Providing professional technical consultancy to migrate and transform existing on-premises applications to Public cloud and support to all Cloud-related programmes and existing environments.

Design and deploy direct connect network between AWS/GCP and datacentre.

Train and develop AWS/GCP expertise within the organisation.

Proven troubleshooting skills to resolve issues related with cloud network, storage and performance management.

Support the establishment of DevOps culture and methodologies within the organisation

Key performance indicators:

60% cloud utilisation in organization for new services

99% cloud services uptime

Number of new/updated features released per quarter

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

Profound Cloud Technology, Network, Security and Platform Expertise (GCP/AWS) GCP: Primary

Expertise in GCP cloud services like VPC, Compute Engine, Bucket, LB, etc.

Working experience with GCP Cloud Function, Cloud Run.

Expertise in Linux Administration

Expertise in automation and workflow like Cloud formation templates, Ansible scripts and Python scripts.

DevOps Tools: Working of Pipeline HashiCorp Stack (Packer, Terraform etc.), Docker, Kubernetes

Work experience in AWS organisation and multi-tenant accounts setup.

Understanding in programming and markup languages, such as Python

Good documentation and communication skills.

Degree in IT (any), 4 years of experience in cloud computing or 7 years in enterprise IT

Must have technical/professional qualifications:

Adapt in ITIL, SOX and security regulations

Three to five years of work experience in programming and /or systems analysis applying agile frameworks

Experience with Web applications and Web hosting skills.

Experience with DevOps concept in cloud environment.

Working experience in managing highly business critical environments.

AWS architect/operations associate certification with experience preferred.

Professional experience and knowledge of the Telecommunications industry preferred