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Zencore · 3 weeks ago

Principal Architect, Infrastructure

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

Zencore is a fast-growing company founded by former Google Cloud leaders, architects, and engineers. They are seeking a Principal Architect to provide strategic guidance and technical oversight for projects related to Google Cloud and application modernization. The role involves working closely with clients to develop cloud solutions, mentoring team members, and ensuring successful project delivery.

Cloud ComputingConsultingInformation Technology

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Working with our clients to understand their requirements and technical challenges. Using this input you will develop solutions using cloud technologies and evangelize the value of your solution to the client team

You will work with clients to develop estimates for the skills required and timelines to deliver Zencore projects. You should be able to turn these estimates into a clear proposal or SoW

You will act as the lead technical member of the project team, providing delivery and technical oversight. You are responsible for keeping the technical delivery on track and unblocking when things are stuck. While this is an architecture role, we expect you to be a hands on practitioner; you should be comfortable doing both architecture and execution

You will act as a mentor inside of the engineering organizations. You are expected to be an expert in your technical domain, and you should be able to teach and enable others in order to up-skill the organization

Qualification

Google CloudCloud native architecturesDevSecOps practicesKubernetesSoftware ArchitectureNetworkingLearn quicklyCommunication skills

Required

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Experience designing and implementing cloud native architectures based on modern SRE principles and best practices

Hands on skills working with a major public cloud platform in a production setting, ideally GCP

Comfortable working with common DevSecOps practices and tooling

Ability to go deeper than most on one or more domains - Software Architecture, Tooling/Pipelines/DevSecOps, Kubernetes, Databases, and/or Networking

Ability to learn quickly, understand, and work with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in Cloud, DevSecOps, and Software Development

Comfortable navigating ambiguity and complex engagements

Strong communication skills; able to communicate technical concepts to nontechnical audiences

Comfortable with being on video in meetings internally and with clients