Cloud Architect Google Cloud Landing Zone ( REF3218F)

The largest ICT employer in Hungary, Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions (formerly IT-Services Hungary, ITSH) is a subsidiary of the Deutsche Telekom Group. Established in 2006, the company provides a wide portfolio of IT and telecommunications services with more than 5000 employees. ITSH was awarded with the Best in Educational Cooperation prize by HIPA in 2019, acknowledged as one of the most attractive workplaces by PwC Hungary’s independent survey in 2021 and rewarded with the title of the Most Ethical Multinational Company in 2019. The company continuously develops its four sites in Budapest, Debrecen, Pécs and Szeged and is looking for skilled IT professionals to join its team.

Your task as part of our "Google Cloud Landing Zone" Team is to build and maintain cloud infrastructure, specifically the Google Cloud Landing Zone to be used by the applications of Deutsche Telekom. In the future we want to add sovereign controls, because privacy workload is expected to run on google cloud. 
A Landing Zone is a set of standard building blocks (services, processes, etc.) that allows you to automatically create projects, infrastructure and environments that are preconfigured in line with security and privacy policies, compliance guidelines and cloud native best practices.​ 
​As platform developers, we strive to build and maintain a solid platform that can be used to build a variety of applications or products. We use a holistic approach to build a scalable, reliable, performance and cost optimized and flexible foundation. 
 
Thereby we simplify the work of other software engineers that move their application to the cloud and inspire the development of new solutions with modern technologies, IT platforms, DevOps solutions and tools. We drive self-service and automation, encourage the use of modern engineering practices, and educate agile teams on best practices in GCP.

 Tasks 

•  Design and implement a highly reliable and scalable cloud platform, with a focus on Google cloud platform 
• Develop and maintain policies, standards, and guidelines to ensure that a consistent framework is applied across the company 
• Interest for security topics and design landing zone in accordance with company security and privacy guidelines. 
• Configure networking infrastructure components 
• Build automated deployments using infrastructure-as-code technology 
• Monitor network components, self-provisioning service (application), policy violations by the customer, suspicious activity which may be security relevant etc. 
• Use modern engineering principles such as infrastructure-as-code 
• Automate IT-processes on the Google Cloud landing zone (Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Test automation, Self-Services) and conduct administration- and configuration tasks independently 
• Operate & maintain the platform in terms of availability, stability, and performance by choosing the suitable infrastructure architecture. Operations include sustainable incident response and periodic on call duties 

Responsibilities 

• Work with agile mindset and according to agile methodology with close collaboration within the team, but also with other teams in the hub and Deutsche Telekom as well as software engineers using the cloud platform. 
• Approach work with a DevOps and continuous improvement mindset 
• Maintain current technical knowledge making recommendations as needed to help the team, hub and company excel.  

This requests addresses all interested colleagues of Chapters DevSecOps, OPS, SWE or ARC.

• Hands-on experience designing, developing, deploying and operating one of the cloud platforms: GCP, AWS or Azure, ideally as multi-tenant solution 
• Experience in running production workloads on a hyperscaler 
• Additional plus is one of the following trainings and certifications:  
  • Google Associate Cloud Engineer or Cloud Architect 
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solutions Architect – Associate 
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals 
• previous experience with at least 3 of the following on intermediate level: 
  • Infrastructure as Code e.g. with Terraform
  • Databases (SQL, NoSQL, GCP-specific databases)
  • Networks (networking and internet protocols, network design, load balancing, troubleshooting, DNS, routing, VPN, distributed networks and how to integrate networks with cloud services) 
  • Containerization with Google Kubernetes Engine or Cloud Run or Container-Optimized OS 
  • Monitoring for automated system health checks using tools like Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) & Cloudprober 
  • platform security & policies: Technical/IT security  
  • experience with a modern language such as Java, Python, Golang or Node.js, including object-oriented design and cloud solution design patterns (microservices, messaging, distributed caching, containers, IAM etc.) 
  • Version controlling, code merging & Ci/ CD workflows and tools with git/ gitlab, Google Cloud Source & Google Cloud Build 
• BSc in computer science (or related) or comparable qualification 
• English language proficiency, as the team and hub language is English 
• You are curious and interested in the latest technologies, especially in cloud, agile methods, and DevOps  
• You are willing to enter unknown territory, to make mistakes and to learn from them together 
• You have fun with varied topics in an interdisciplinary team and are characterized by a high intrinsic motivation 
• You can present and communicate ideas e.g. about architecture in a visual form 

Additionally, our way of working requires that you be a Team player with great Communication Skills, able to travel and produce out of the box ideas.

* Please be informed that our remote working possibility is only available within Hungary due to European taxation regulation.