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Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.\nWe are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.\nOur teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.\nPA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.\n We are looking for an experienced person to join, and be instrumental within, our Google Alliance team. This is a critical role, one that will stretch you personally and professionally, and require you to utilise your creative, cognitive, and emotional intelligence. Therefore we expect that:\nYou are pragmatic and already understand that building a platform is only part of what a cloud engineering entails.\nYou can clearly communicate with both clients and peers, describing technical issues and solutions in both written and meeting/workshop contexts.\nYou are a confident problem solver and troubleshooter.\nYou are confident and generous in sharing your specialist knowledge, ideas and solutions.\nYou know when a platform is \"fit for purpose\".\nYou are constantly learning and able to make others better by consciously teaching and unconsciously inspiring.\nYou are obsessed with ensuring PA’s reputation and credibility is always regarded at a remarkably elevated level, and unafraid to initiate corrective actions should this not be at our desired level.\nAs a GCP Technical Lead, you'll be a true subject matter expert for delivering ingenious solutions on the Google Cloud Platform. We'll be looking at you to set direction and take responsibility for successfully achieving an outcome or deliverable. You may have a team of people to support, leading a development team, or else you could be working across multiple teams, providing some centralised expertise necessary for a larger program of work.\nYou'll have expertise in architecture and will feel comfortable leading higher level architectural discussions.\nUsing your experience of the DevSecOps processes, it’s likely you’ll own the overall process across a team, or multiple teams, building strong principles and putting robust methods and patterns in place.\nYou will be comfortable having conversations with the client regularly, being one of the main points of engagement between the client and the project.\nCoaching and mentoring the team will be important in the role.\nYou'll play an active role in technical account management.\nAs part of this role you will design ingenious GCP-enabled solutions and services for brilliant clients across industry sectors. You will learn and grow - PA will support your to further develop your specialisations and increase your GCP certifications. Expect a sleeves-up, fully associated, and immersive working week. All our people are client facing and empowered to fulfil the best outcome for their clients.\nFlexible working - We are guided by our client work and needs; however, you have autonomy to manage your time and diary to suit your work/life balance.\n To be successful in this role, you will need to have knowledge of the following products and deep experience in one more of the categories:\nServerless: Cloud Run, Cloud Functions\nKubernetes Engine, Compute Engine\nVPC networks and Service Perimeters\nBigQuery, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner and Firestore\nAPI management including Apigee or Cloud Endpoints\nData analytics services including Dataproc, Dataflow, Data Fusion and Cloud Composer\nSecurity controls, including Cloud IAM, PAM, VPC Service Controls and Security Command Centre\nAdditionally you should have a sound understanding of the following Architectural principles:\nMicroservices patterns\nEvent-driven architectures and message queues\nRelational and non-relational databases\nDevelopment and/or scripting experience (e.g. Python, Node, Bash)\nSecurity best practices for access control, data protection and communications.\nIn addition to the above, we would be thrilled if you also had:\nKnowledge of other cloud platforms\nAutomation DevOps experience using Google tech like Cloud Build and open source tech like terraform\nWe know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply - we’d love to hear from you.\n Please not that the interview stages may be subject to change based on the specific requirements of the role.\nIntroductory Call with a senior Talent Acquisition Partner to explore your background, the opportunity, and PA.\nRound 1: Three competency-based interviews with members of the team.\nFinal Round : Business plan presentation to PA leaders-with guidance and prep time provided.\nLife At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.\nOur purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.\nFind out more about Life at PA here.\nWe are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:\nHealth and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family \n25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days \nGenerous company pension scheme \nOpportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives \nAnnual performance-based bonus \nPA share ownership \nTax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn) \nWe’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. 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