This small team provides a highly automated and process-driven environment-provisioning service, defining and maintaining standards for our cloud platforms (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) - primarily in Google Cloud Platform but also reaching into other cloud platforms. The Team supports the development teams, who are spread out globally and helps them to deliver new initiatives quickly while overseeing and ensuring that high standards, quality, security and audit requirements are maintained.
We govern cloud platforms centrally, administer shared tools, we control naming conventions, network configurations and access. We own the cloud database instances, shared ELT tools, API management tools and we drive the agendas of the Global Infrastructure and InfoSec departments in the cloud.
Main Tasks:
Deliver platform solutions and services:
● Design and deployment of automated processes in Google Cloud, coded in exclusively in Python, to integrate Google APIs and other business systems to solve business problems such as user and service account provisioning with segregation of duties (approvals), new GCP project deployments with extensive customisation, tools to satisfy audit requirements, automated backups, DR, reporting, monitoring, cost optimisation and stale resource removal.
● Administer and utilise CICD tools such as BitBucket Premium
● Administer and maintain Google Cloud add-ons such as Cloud DataFusion and Google Apigee Enterprise
● Architectural assistance to product teams and global colleagues, design solutions using serverless technologies in the cloud while steering teams to use preferred security and management tools for Secret Management, WAF and DDoS, Centralised Network Management and Logging.
Operational reliability:
● Act as a technical point of contact on the platform, working with cloud service providers to ensure the platform remains operational and is able to support the service levels of the hosted applications.
● Maintain the enterprise wide view of the consumers of the cloud resources, applications, owners and technical contacts.
● Maintain services hosted on the platforms by measuring and monitoring availability, performance, cost and efficiency.
● Scale systems through automation and evolve systems by enforcing changes that improve reliability, performance, supportability, security
What you need to succeed:
● Expert in automation in the cloud, developing advanced Python code to interact with Google APIs and external tools such as ServiceNow
● Thorough understanding of networking and routing concepts and a proven ability to apply them successfully in cloud virtual networks.
● ServiceNow administration and integration skills
● Knowledge of Bitbucket Pipelines and CICD methodology
● Hands-on experience of authentication methods, OAuth, token exchange and identity federation methods
● Hands-on experience of running Python code in Google Cloud Run and Cloud Functions to automate governance tools, audit requirements, reporting and automation needs.
● Knowledge of Load Balancing technologies
● Expert in Google Cloud IAM