About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on Cloud Architect to lead the design, build-out, and automation of secure, scalable Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments. You will own the cloud foundation end to end — from assessment and landing-zone design through Infrastructure-as-Code automation, DevSecOps, Kubernetes/GKE, observability, and internal developer platforms. This is a senior, delivery-focused role for someone who combines deep GCP engineering expertise with a platform-engineering mindset and a passion for automation and enablement.

Key Responsibilities

- Cloud Assessment & Architecture: Assess existing landscapes, define target-state GCP architectures, and design secure, well-governed landing zones and multi-tenant cloud environments.
- Infrastructure as Code: Design and build modular, reusable Terraform to provision and manage all GCP infrastructure, ensuring consistency, repeatability, and drift control across environments.
- DevSecOps & CI/CD: Design and implement CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, embedding security throughout the lifecycle — secrets scanning, SAST/DAST, image scanning, and policy-as-code guardrails.
- GCP Services Configuration: Architect and configure core GCP services — networking (VPC, subnets, peering, hybrid connectivity), databases, compute, API gateway, and Pub/Sub messaging.
- Identity, IAM & Policy: Configure Cloud Identity and IAM, organization and security policies, and least-privilege access models and guardrails across the organization hierarchy.
- DNS & CDN: Design and configure Cloud DNS, Cloud CDN, and load balancing for performant, resilient, and globally available services.
- GKE & Kubernetes: Automate GKE cluster provisioning and lifecycle management, and lead the migration of workloads to GKE with autoscaling, networking, and Workload Identity.
- Observability & Monitoring: Define the observability strategy and configure monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and SLO/SLI dashboards using Cloud Operations, Prometheus, and Grafana.




- Platform Engineering: Build internal developer platforms and self-service capabilities using tools such as Spotify Backstage — creating golden paths, service templates, and reusable modules that accelerate delivery teams.
- Leadership & Enablement: Provide technical leadership and mentoring, author architecture and standards documentation, and partner closely with client and delivery stakeholders.

Required Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years in IT with 5+ years architecting and delivering solutions on Google Cloud Platform (strong multi-cloud experience with a GCP focus also considered).
- Deep, hands-on expertise with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code, including reusable module design.
- Strong DevSecOps and CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions and shift-left security practices.
- Production experience operating Kubernetes/GKE at scale, including cluster automation and workload migrations.
- Expertise across GCP networking, compute, managed databases, API gateway, Pub/Sub, Cloud Identity, and IAM.
- Solid grounding in cloud networking — DNS, CDN, and load balancing.
- Experience designing observability with Cloud Operations suite, Prometheus, and Grafana.
- Platform-engineering / internal-developer-platform experience (Spotify Backstage or similar).
- Proficiency in at least one scripting/automation language (Python, Go, or Bash).

Preferred (Nice to Have)
- Google Professional Cloud Architect and/or Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification.
- Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms and security/compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2).
- Familiarity with service mesh (Istio/Anthos Service Mesh) and GitOps (Argo CD / Flux).
- Exposure to FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization.

What You'll Bring

Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, a bias for automation and documentation, solid problem-solving instincts, and the ability to lead and mentor engineers in a fast-paced, client-facing environment.

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