# Consultant Specialist

**Company**: GCIO
**Location**: Guangzhou, Guangdong
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Consultant Specialist.

Principal responsibilities:

- Part of a pod of Data Engineers that supports multiple GCP development projects.

- Collaborate with GCP delivery teams, to challenge and refine solution designs, ensuring at all times that DevOps best practice is followed.

- Key or pivotal role in delivery of a large-scale IT project (requirements, design, development, testing, data, infrastructure), preferably delivered following an Agile approach.

- Demonstrable experience in understanding business requirements and translating these requirements into a solid, robust technical design that can withstand scrutiny by various teams involved in governance processes around live deployments (IT Security, Cyber Security etc.)

- Demonstrated an ability to see beyond the defined business requirements and designing solutions that are readily maintainable, easy to extend and that allow for future requirements to be easily implemented minimising technical debt where possible

- A large cloud implementation/migration project (preferably GCP), all the way through to go-live.

- Strong working knowledge of cloud architecture solutions that maximise the use of PaaS offerings.

- Understand the concept of immutable infrastructure (what it means, what design considerations are key & why it is important), and ideally some experience on at least one project.

- Understand “infrastructure-as-code” and “configuration-as-code” (what are the benefits?), and ability to differentiate toolsets/platforms used to implement each one.

- Develop data pipelines / APIs using Python, SQL, potentially BigQuery, Cloud SQL Bigtable etc.

- Build large-scale batch and real-time data pipelines with data processing frameworks in GCP cloud platform.

- Experience using Terraform (designing re-usable code & writing custom Terraform modules).

- Experience writing Jenkins pipelines, developing jobs that can be re-used across delivery teams

- Experience managing cloud infrastructure environments (admin, users, IAM & service accounts).

- Experience of working in a test-driven development (TDD) approach.

- Understand the concepts behind effective secrets management ideally having implemented it on at least one project, knowledge of concepts - leasing, secret wrapping etc.

- Track record of delivery.

- Banking and/or Financial Crime Risk experience (optional).

Requirements:

- Automation toolset (Terraform).

- Continuous Integration/delivery servers - Jenkins (Pipeline as Code).

- DevOps principles (CICD, designing & implementing infrastructure/configuration-as-code).

- Knowledge of cloud architecture & services (preferably GCP).

- Security (IAM, roles, service accounts, entitlements)

- SQL experience (SQL/NoSQL scripting, ETL)

- Big Data (Hadoop)

- Atlassian toolset (Bamboo, Bitbucket, JIRA, Confluence).

- GitHub.

- Data (databases, management, transformation, metadata).

- Bash/shell scripting and Python development

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## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- BigQuery
- Cloud SQL
- Bigtable
- Terraform
- Jenkins
- GCP
- DevOps
- CICD
- Infrastructure-as-code
- Configuration-as-code
- Immutable infrastructure
- Secrets management
- Bash/shell scripting
- Atlassian toolset
- GitHub
- Data processing frameworks
- Cloud architecture
- Security

### Nice to have
- Banking
- Financial Crime Risk
- Hadoop

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