GCP Platform + Security Architect - REMOTE

We currently have a career opportunity for a GCP Platform + Security Architect in our Cloud and API Practice. While our headquarters location is St. Louis, MO, this position is remote and can be based anywhere within the United States and will be working CT and PT zones.

Job Overview:

Candidates for the GCP Platform + Security Architect  position typically major in computer science, or a computer related field, and have 10+ years of production workload management experience in a related IT field. As an GCP Platform + Security Architect you will work with a small team of DevSecOps engineers to deliver infrastructure as a managed service for a strategic Perficient account. In this role, you will identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities within compute, network, storage and database resources running in Google Cloud. You will implement process improvements in various domains including: solution platform automation, source code iteration and improvement, continuous integration, observability instrumentation, and infrastructure as code. You will help design and implement SRE related tools and processes within our client’s cloud infrastructure for both internal and external customers.

Perficient is always looking for the best and brightest talent and we need you! We’re a quickly-growing, global digital consulting leader, and we’re transforming the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands. You’ll work with the latest technologies, expand your skills, and become a part of our global community of talented, diverse, and knowledgeable colleagues.

• Identify and remediate security vulnerabilities identified within current state infrastructure.
• Plan migration paths to future state infrastructure using GCP best practices for containerized workloads.
• Provide direction to project engineers to implement SRE platform requirements
• Interact and support cross-functional teams to architect, design, develop, test, and implement error budgets with instrumented event capture for observability
• Architect, design, develop, implement, test, iterate and support Service Level
• Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Be precise in helping organizations determine if an SLA should be internal or public-facing, with appropriate accountability and validity.
• Demonstrate knowledge in various DevOps domains (Agile, source control management, pipeline automation, IaaC, etc.)
• Implement Proof-of-Concept projects to validate new SRE solutions
• Build templates, workflows, and repeatable solutions for various SRE use cases as directed
• Implement provided architectural solutions/designs in various SRE disciplines
• Collaborate with client team members to mitigate or eliminate technical dependencies, issues, and risks
• Support common vision, practices, and capabilities across teams
• Engage with Technical Architects and technical staff to determine the most appropriate technical strategy and designs to meet business needs.
• Be an effective communicator at all levels of the business: c-suite, directors and managers, as well as key individual contributors.
• Deliver with positivity and professionalism consistently.
• Lead daily stand-ups and QBR (quarterly business reviews). 

We are looking for colleagues with engaging personalities, a passion for excellence in technology, a problem-solving nature, and these other qualifications:

• GCP and GCP Security Knowledge and hands on skills, specifically Console and CLI
• Scripting with GCP CLI
• IAM and Federated IAM with GCP IAM and AD as the Identity Provider: Architecture, Design and Implementation
• Terraform for IaC and Terraform based security and compliance code development and maintenance
• Knowledge and skills with advanced GCP and IT Security Architecture relevant to the Financial Services world including: PCI, SOX, ISO 27001, 800-30 Risk Assessment, GLBA Security Assessment and NYS DFS Cyber Security
• Dev-Sec-Ops and SRE Architecture, design and implementation skills in the GCP world including CI-CD and Continuous Compliance Observability Models
• An expert-level understanding of SRE, DevSecOps, and traditional systems administration domains including Source Code Management, Continuous Integration, Deployment Automation, Infrastructure as Code, Cloud architecture, observability, error budgets, etc.
• Must have strong experience with DevSecOps tools like Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Kubernetes, Terraform, ELK, Jira or other alternatives
• Experience with SRE tooling (openTelemetry, APM)
• Experience with code review and refactoring. Specific languages are less important than knowin