Company Overview:

DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) simplifies cloud computing so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. With our mission-critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings, DigitalOcean enables startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to rapidly deploy and scale modern applications. As a remote-first organization, our employees, like our customers, are based around the world.

Cloudways – A DigitalOcean.Com Company is hiring people who already did an amazing job in a System Architect capacity, and are ready to take the next level of an exciting challenge. Our ideal candidate is a customer-focused individual that leverages his/her technical expertise over GCP/GKE. 

Job Overview:

• Create and deliver best practices and recommendations to develop highly scalable and available cloud based systems that serve millions of internet and mobile facing applications
• Lead requirements gathering, analysis and solution development for GCP/GKE cloud-based solutions
• Architect, design and implement systems for deploying complex application workloads on GCP in Kubernetes and GKE
• Architect highly available solutions with backup and disaster recovery
• Partner with project teams, functional architects, systems specialists and other technical resources
• Lead a project in a hands-on role driving GCP cloud development, design and delivery from inception to production
• Mentor and provide technical oversight and guidance to implementation teams while working in a coordinated manner to deliver and deploy the designed architecture
• Collects and defines technical requirements to enable business processes and integrations
• Establish governance and enforce quality standards for cloud software and infrastructure architectures (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS)
• Review and evaluate existing systems architectures and software products to identify cloud platforming and refactoring opportunities
• Work closely with leadership and stakeholders to gather technical requirements, architect solutions, and drive high priority customer initiatives
• Provide Cloud/GCP thought leadership to the engineering teams by mentoring and coaching engineers, administrators, and developers to ensure that architecture and requirements best practices are followed
• Maintain clear documentation and standards for cloud operations in the organization
• Stay up to date on emerging technology trends and promote an environment of learning
• Responsible for monitoring the production environment and also advancing the obtainable monitoring setup as needed
• Performs other relevant job duties as required

Job Specification:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related discipline desired, or relevant Cloud Operations Engineering work experience.
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related discipline desired, or relevant Cloud Operations Engineering work experience is preferred.
• Google Cloud Certified – Professional Cloud Architect or experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) – Preferred
• Overall 8+ years of experience in the development role out of which 5+ years of experience must be as an enterprise systems architect in a cloud computing environment – GCP preferred

• Experience in cloud computing (e.g., applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms, data), as well as cloud market and competitive dynamics.
• Experience leading and designing large-scale network implementations to GCP (i.e. Google Cloud Load Balancing, DNS, CDN, Storage, DR, Security, Monitoring, etc.)
• Experience with establishing technical strategy and architecture of highly scalable cloud-based systems
• Experience in designing scalable solutions including high availability, redundancy, fail-over and load balancing
• Strong expertise in GCP services (i.e. Cloud Services Platform, Google Kubernetes Engine, Compute Engine, Cloud Interconnect)
• Experience leading GCP Cloud project delivery, i.e. responsible for:
  • Project deliverables
  • Technical and architecture design, implementation and oversight
  • Project delivery approach
  • Delivery performance – working with delivery and PM teams
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, technical mentoring and leadership skills
  • Experience leading and working with diverse geographically distributed teams

Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean:

• We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on relevant years of experience and skills. Employees may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees including grants of equity upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• We value development. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that is always challenging our teams and employees to continuously grow. We maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development through formalized mentorship and other internal programs. We provide all employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
• We care about your well-being. In addition to cash and equity compensation, we also offer employees a competitive array of benefits. In the United States, these include health insurance, unlimited vacation, retirement benefits, a generous parental leave program, and additional resources to support employees’ overall well-being. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary in other countries due to local regulations and preferences.
• We value diversity and inclusivity. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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