Principal Cloud Architect

Qarik Overview

Qarik Group, LLC is a technology consulting firm focused on combining senior-level expertise and experience to help clients see further and go faster, solving big business problems.

We have a saying at Qarik that sums up our culture: 'Greatness grows greatness.' It reflects how we support each other by sharing expertise, experience and opportunity. One person's insight smooths the way for another to succeed. And it's not just about supporting each other. It's as much about how we help our client's businesses thrive. By using what we collectively know and mashing ideas together, breathtaking things happen. Not least of which is how your career's journey can go further and faster than you ever imagined possible. So, if you have greatness to give, we've got the perfect place to help it grow.

About Our Clients

We strive to work "with" our clients. We embrace agile instead of deliverables and milestones - establish a vision, create theme based roadmap and execute. We work in the trenches with our client's employees and engineers to learn from each other's experiences and capabilities.

We have deep connectivity with Google and some of our clients are Google's largest and strategic consumers of Google Cloud. We get to work closely with both our clients and Google to ensure both organizations are working towards a common goal.

We check badges and egos at the door and bring incredible people together to achieve great outcomes. This allows people to bring their whole person to contribute to, and be part of the team. You should never feel like you have to be somebody else, instead always inspired to be the best version of yourself.

Overview of the Role

A Principal Cloud Infrastructure Architect provides thought-leadership on how to architect and implement cloud foundations for large scale enterprises for multiple mission critical applications.

Our client's are betting their business on their move to Google Cloud. There is no backup plan or hedging bets. They will look to you, as a thought leader in the industry to lead them on that journey. You will work with a lot of people to understand their needs and help formulate an approach, then help drive implementation of this approach. This will span networking, security, databases, data storage, HA, DR, etc.

If you are passionate about leveraging cloud native services to provide a competitive advantage instead of "just setting up the plumbing" then you will love it here at Qarik.

We are not in the business of conducting science experiments. Our projects involve migrating our clients core, high-throughput revenue producing systems to the cloud. Oftentimes doing so requires robust and thoughtful experimentation to ensure scalability and performance.

We find that engineers or developers that turn architects are the most successful in this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver thought leadership, architecture design and implementations on Google Cloud Platform.
• Guide and influence technical and commercial Director/VP stakeholder relationships.
• Help create the internal cloud roadmap, including grooming backlog based on your experience and knowledge of what it takes to move large organizations.
• Lead and participate in the hands-on technical delivery of projects.
• Ensure clear communications and architectures that allow cloud engineers to understand the objectives and work needed to get to done.
• Coach and mentor cloud engineers on how to leverage Google Cloud for its strengths and avoid treating it as just another datacenter.
• Provide guidance on best ways to achieve 100% automation.
• Drive adoption of SRE and blameless post mortem.
• Partner with Google Cloud engineers and Google Cloud product managers to help make Google cloud better.

• Engineering mindset/developer background
• Strong sense of ownership
• Strong ethics
• Highly organized and industrious
• Focused and motivated
• Curious - always learning both technology and frameworks to get better
• Passionate
• Strong technical aptitude

• Desired Locations: Canada, Belfast, UK, New York, or Chicago but open to any location as long as you have a great internet connection and are willing to overlap US east coast morning.
• Sadly the latency from Mars is too great, so we have a preference for people on Earth.