Senior Assoc/Assoc, Cloud Engineer, Data Platform, Group Technology
On-siteEast, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China
Job Summary
Design and implement key components for highly scalable, distributed data collection and analysis systems handling petabytes of data in a hybrid cloud environment. Deploy and manage infrastructure and data services on Google Cloud Platform, utilizing Terraform for automation and Kubernetes for container orchestration. Work with architects to adopt best practices for backend infrastructure supporting Machine Learning and Agentic workloads, while continuously discovering new cloud technologies to maximize system performance. Instrument, validate, and automate security controls within GCP, resolving operational issues as an L2/L3 specialist. Collaborate on weekly sprint cycles to build and test elegant solutions using Agile methodologies and Test Driven Development.
Required Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including deploying and managing infrastructure and data services
- Enterprise experience building complex solutions within GCP and experience with architecting GCP production workloads for Business and IT operations, across a hybrid cloud environment
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform to automate provisioning, configuration management, and orchestration within GCP
- Hands-on experience with containers and containers orchestrators (Kubernetes, Docker), as well as serverless architectures within GCP
- Hands-on experience with Dataproc, BigQuery
- Experience with Spark and different schema formats (Avro, Parquet)
- Understanding of infrastructure monitoring, log analysis, and automation for incident response within GCP
- Ability to instrument, validate, and automate security controls within GCP
- Demonstrable strong cloud architecture or development experience, specifically Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with associate or specialist level certification
- Manage and resolve Operational issues as the L2/L3
- The ability to work with loosely defined requirements, and exercise your analytical skills to clarify questions, share your approach and build/test elegant solutions in weekly sprint/release cycles
Desired Qualifications
- Development experience in Java/Python and pride in producing clean, maintainable code
- Experience using high-throughput, distributed message queueing systems such as Kafka
- Familiarity with tracing/observability solutions, e.g. OpenTelemetry
- Mastery of key development tools such as GIT, and familiarity with collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence or similar tools
- Experience with SQL engines (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL)
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