GCP Architect

Capgemini is hiring GCP Architect (GKE Lead) who will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and supporting cloud infrastructure and application deployments for the Merchandising team. This position requires hands-on expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), a strong DevOps foundation, and close collaboration with cross-functional teams. We are open to considering candidates willing to work hybrid from either of the locations - Chicago, Dallas, New York, New Jersey, Nashville or Atlanta.

Key Responsibilities

• Configure log-based metrics such as error rate, latency, and memory usage, along with retention policies and export settings.
• Monitor health metrics including latency, error rate, CPU/memory utilization, and API response times.
• Track user traffic patterns and analyze system usage.
• Create unified dashboards in Looker Studio or Grafana to present consolidated views of multiple services.
• Integrate billing data, usage metrics, and error dashboards for holistic monitoring.
• Define Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Provide guidance and decision trees for choosing the appropriate GCP datastore (Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Firestore, Bigtable, BigQuery) based on latency, consistency, schema flexibility, global scalability, and cost.
• Advise on selecting between Kubernetes and Platform-as-a-Service (GKE, Cloud Run, App Engine, Cloud Functions) considering application complexity, control requirements, scalability, and team skill set.

Required Skills

• Senior candidate with 10+ year of relevant experience
• Experience developing architecture patterns for -Web application frontends, RESTful APIs, Backend services using Cloud SQL or Cloud Spanner, Stateless app deployments utilizing GKE, Cloud Run, or App Engine, CI/CD integration points, caching layers such as Redis, and queue-based microservices with Pub/Sub or Cloud Tasks
• Set up comprehensive monitoring and logging solutions for Merchandising Apps, leveraging Cloud Monitoring, Logging, Error Reporting, and Trace.
• Implement centralized dashboards using Cloud Monitoring Workspace or Grafana with a BigQuery backend.
• Create log sinks to BigQuery or Pub/Sub for data processing and retention.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules for - Compute resources (GCE, Cloud Run, GKE), IAM policies, Projects, Service Accounts, Cloud SQL and Spanner databases, VPCs, Subnets, Load Balancers, Firewalls, Maintain GitOps workflows for Terraform.
• Design and deploy CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build and GitHub Actions.
• Design and implement VPC and Shared VPC architectures.
• Configure and manage Load Balancers (Global, Regional, HTTPS, Internal).
• Set up VPC Service Controls to protect against data exfiltration.

Life at Capgemini
Capgemini Supports All Aspects Of Your Well-being Throughout The Changing Stages Of Your Life And Career. For Eligible Employees, We Offer

• Flexible work
• Healthcare including dental, vision, mental health, and well-being programs
• Financial well-being programs such as 401(k) and Employee Share Ownership Plan
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Family building benefits like adoption assistance, surrogacy, and cryopreservation
• Social well-being benefits like subsidized back-up child/elder care and tutoring
• Mentoring, coaching and learning programs
• Employee Resource Groups
• Disaster Relief

About Capgemini
Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to

engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.

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Job
Programmer/Analyst

Schedule
Full-time

Primary Location
US-GA-Atlanta

Organization
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