Sr Cloud Platform Architect

Landis+Gyr is a leading global provider of integrated energy management solutions. We measure and analyze energy utilization to generate empowering analytics for smart grid and infrastructure management, enabling utilities and consumers to reduce energy consumption. Our innovative and proven portfolio of software, services and intelligent sensor technology is a key driver to decarbonize the grid and helped to avoid around 9 million tons of CO2 in FY 2023. With sales of USD 2.0 billion in FY 2023, Landis+Gyr employs around 6,900 talented people across five continents. 

For more than a century, we've been pioneers in energy innovation, and we continue to lead the way toward a more sustainable and efficient energy landscape. 

Join us at Landis+Gyr, where we manage energy better! 

 

 

Job Summary

Landis + Gyr have embarked on a major initiative together with Google to migrate its business operations and develop world class energy management solutions on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The Sr (Google) Cloud Architect will serve as the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) SME within the Landis+Gyr team and wider partner eco-system. This role will take part in and lead architecture projects, design, and development projects in the GCP cloud space using automated orchestration and configuration management techniques.  

 

Key Responsibilities:

•    Architecture the production of conceptual, solution, and component level architectures addressing functional and non-functional qualities, including availability, resiliency, security, privacy, observability, automation, etc.  
•    Advising/Mentoring - Provide advice and guidance to team leads regarding technical and design decisions. 
•    Contribute to or lead the definition of standards, guidance, and points-of-view that enable engineers to thrive. 
•    Review, advise, and provide feedback on architectures produced within and outside the team. 
•    Partner with parties inside and outside L+G to meet security goals and pave the way for digital transformation and modernization. 
•    Engage in designing and implementing secure and compliant enterprise servers, network infrastructure, boundary protection, and cloud architectures. 
•��   Understand and utilize the native services of other technologies of GCP. 
•    Leading the authoring and peer review of detailed design documentation, including security documentation, and implementing best practice. 

 

 

Company Values:

•    Supports and adheres to Company’s core values. 
•    Performs other duties or responsibilities as assigned or required. 
•    Supports and adheres to Company’s Code of Conduct and Ethics Policy. 
•    Represents Company in a positive, professional manner when working with both internal and external customers.

 

 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

•    Ability to architect and build cloud solutions to effectively meet the strategic needs of the company.  
•    Providing technical leadership throughout all phases of projects from the requirements phase through the deployment / support phases. 
•    Experienced in designing and building cloud architectures in GCP preferred including cloud-first and cloud-native solutions. 
•    Ability to evaluate new technologies and stay ahead of industry trends. 
•    Experience with common GCP architecture patterns. 
•    A strong software engineering and/or architecture background is required. 
•    Demonstrated DevOps expertise including automation and CI/CD, with deep involvement in continuous delivery automation, and the integration of cloud-native services to create fully functioning, cohesive delivery pipelines. 
•    Google Cloud Architect certified 
•    Windows and Linux operating system installation, configuration, and management. 
•    Developing, deploying, and managing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible. 
•    Managing IaC and CI/CD pipelines using Git and Gitlab. 
•    Implementing container-based solutions utilizing Docker and Kubernetes. 

 

 

Accountabilities:

•    Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts. 
•    Experience addressing operational and non-functional concerns (e.g. horizontal & vertical scalability, performance, maintainability, load distribution, resilience