The Role

Job Description

The GCP Senior SME is a senior-level technical leader responsible for designing, implementing, optimizing, and governing cloud solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role acts as a trusted advisor to architects, delivery teams, and business stakeholders, ensuring scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud adoption aligned with enterprise strategy.

1. Cloud Architecture Engineering

- Design scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud-native, hybrid, and multi-cloud solutions on GCP.
- Define cloud standards, reference architectures, and best practices.
- Lead GCP deployments, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), cloud migrations, and ensure HA/DR, scalability, and reliability.

2. Operations, Security Governance

- Provide L3 support, incident resolution, and root cause analysis.
- Establish monitoring, SLAs/SLOs, operational runbooks, and governance frameworks.
- Implement IAM, network security, encryption, and zero-trust architectures while ensuring audit, regulatory, and compliance adherence.

3. Advisory Innovation

- Act as a trusted advisor, leading solution reviews, workshops, and stakeholder discussions.
- Support pre-sales, estimations, and proposal development.
- Drive automation, DevOps, FinOps, adoption of new GCP services, and delivery improvements through reusable frameworks and best practices.

4. Leadership Capability Development

- Mentor engineers and architects through training, knowledge sharing, and certification programs.
- Define SOPs, playbooks, and documentation standards to strengthen team capabilities and operational excellence.





Who You Are

You're good at what you do and possess the required experience to prove it. However, equally as important you have a growth mindset; keen to drive your own personal and professional development. You are customer-focused someone who prioritizes customer success in their work. And finally, you're open and borderless naturally inclusive in how you work with others.

Required Technical Professional Skills

- Strong expertise in GCP core services (Compute, Networking, Storage, IAM, GKE, BigQuery)
- Experience in cloud architecture, migrations, and cloud-native development
- Hands-on with IaC tools (Terraform, Deployment Manager)
- Knowledge of DevOps practices (CI/CD pipelines, automation)
- Strong understanding of networking, security, and governance
- Solid problem-solving and analytical capability
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management
- Ability to lead large-scale transformation programs
- Experience working in global delivery or consulting environments

Experience

- 8-12+ years overall IT experience
- 3-5+ years deep expertise in GCP
- Experience in enterprise cloud transformation projects

Preferred Technical Professional Skills

- Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
- Google Cloud Certified Professional DevOps Engineer / Data Engineer

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