Description

Provide end-to-end architecture leadership for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) solutions across enterprise programs, governing secure and scalable cloud-native designs.

This role is hybrid.

Responsibilities

• Design and govern secure, scalable, and highly available cloud-native architectures on GCP.
• Lead architecture and delivery across Kubernetes (GKE), microservices, DevOps/GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Architect and guide large-scale cloud migration and modernization initiatives, including legacy platform transformation.
• Define enterprise-grade cloud standards, networking, IAM, security, and observability strategies.
• Collaborate with engineering, SRE, and security teams to ensure consistent implementation and reliability.

Required Skills

• 12+ years of experience as a Senior or Lead Cloud Architect with deep GCP expertise.
• Strong hands-on experience with GCP core services: compute, storage, networking, and managed services.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes (GKE) and containerized microservices architectures.
• Proven experience leading enterprise cloud migrations and modernization programs.
• Strong knowledge of GCP IAM, security, encryption, and governance models.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps/GitOps practices.
• Experience with infrastructure automation using Terraform and Ansible.
• Ability to define observability frameworks including monitoring, logging, and tracing.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in customer-facing roles, including pre-sales, architecture reviews, and executive discussions.
• Strong mentoring and leadership skills to develop engineers and architects.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across onshore and offshore teams.

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree