Solution Architect - GCP Cloud

Ingram Micro; Mumbai; Hybrid; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Ingram Micro is seeking a skilled Presales Architect with extensive experience in Google Cloud Platform solutions. You will be responsible for architecting GCP-based cloud infrastructure and driving modernization initiatives. Responsibilities include leading pre-sales activities, mentoring teams, and presenting solutions to clients across India.

The ideal candidate will possess a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, 8 to 10 years of relevant experience, and strong communication skills to convey technical concepts effectively.

Qualifications

• 8 to 10 years of experience in IT architecture or Presales solutions roles.
• Minimum of 4 to 5 years focused on Google cloud or infrastructure modernization.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Participate in pre-sales activities including solution proposals.
• Architect solutions on GCP-based cloud infrastructure.
• Mentor partner engineering teams and enforce best practices.

Skills

Presales experience

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

GKE

Terraform

CI/CD

Database modernization

Cloud-native architectures

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or IT

Tools

Terraform

GKE

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in pre-sales activities, including solutioning, cost estimation, proposal presentations, and partner enablement sessions.
• Work independently on Presales RFP/RFI to build solution proposals.
• Drive modernization initiatives leveraging a broad range of GCP services to improve performance and efficiency; conduct in-depth application and infrastructure assessments and define modernization and migration paths.
• Architect solutions on GCP-based cloud infrastructure, modernization of legacy applications to cloud-native architectures.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to articulate solution concepts and influence teams.
• Mentor partner engineering team and enforce best practices.
• Work closely with the sales team to qualify leads, present the solution effectively, answer technical questions, accompany the sales team to customer/partner locations across India (where needed) for partner/customer meetings, and represent Ingram Micro at various events/workshops.

Skills

• Strong working experience in Presales with a focus on Google’s GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
  • Compute: Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, App Engine, Cloud Functions
  • Networking: VPC, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud CDN, Cloud Interconnect, Cloud Armor
  • Database & Storage: AlloyDB, Cloud SQL, Spanner for relational workloads; Firestore, Bigtable for NoSQL applications
  • Security & IAM: Organization policies, IAM, Secret Manager, Certificate Manager, Security Command Center
  • Operations: Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Error Reporting, Cloud Trace

Technical Skills

• Proven experience with Google infrastructure, GKE, Terraform, Observability, CI/CD, databases, and modernization projects.
• Strong expertise in Google Cloud Infrastructure and product solutions, and services.
• Hands-on experience with GKE, Terraform, and CI/CD tools.
• Demonstrated success in legacy system migration and cloud modernization (VMs workload & database modernization: SQL Server to PostgreSQL/AlloyDB).
• Knowledge of observability frameworks (e.g., Prometheus and Grafana).
• Good understanding of networking, security, and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong expertise in security best practices in cloud and distributed systems.
• Multi-cloud architectures with Cross-Cloud Interconnect.
• Exposure to Generative AI and agentic frameworks.

Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field. Relevant certifications are a plus.
• Experience: 8 to 10 years in IT architecture or Presales solutions roles.
• Required: minimum 4 to 5 years focused on Google’s cloud/hybrid cloud, infrastructure modernization, or managed services.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to design solutions that address customer needs and challenges.
• Presentation: Proven experience in delivering technical presentations and demonstrations to a variety of audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Additional Skills: Familiarity with cloud migration strategies, DevOps practices, and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

Certifications

• Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect
• Optional: Google Cloud Certified, Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
• Professional Cloud Database Engineer
• Professional Cloud Network Engineer
• Associate Google Workspace Administrator