Google Cloud Platform Architecture & Platform Engineer - NC

Job#: 3026560

Job Description:
Client: Financial Services
Team: TBA
Job Title: Software Engineer 4 - Google Cloud Platform Architecture & Platform Engineering
Location: Zone 2
Bill Rate: $69 - $74
Top Requirements (Must-Have):

6+ years of Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) experience (per skills table)

Hands-on design & engineering of Google Cloud Platform foundational components:

• VPC design, Private Service Connect, load balancers
• Interconnect/VPN
• Cloud IAM, KMS
• Network security, logging & monitoring
• Multi-zone/multi-region architecture

Advanced Terraform / IaC expertise

• Writing modular, enterprise-grade Terraform modules
• Terraform Cloud / TFE
• Idempotent infra deployment patterns

Modern data & analytics platform experience in Google Cloud Platform:

• BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, GCS
• Dataproc, Dataplex, BigLake/Iceberg

Strong cloud security, governance, and compliance controls

Resiliency engineering & SRE-aligned design (SLIs/SLOs, DR/BCP)

Enterprise migration experience (Teradata, Hadoop, SQL Server, Oracle Google Cloud Platform)

Architecture documentation (HLD/LLD), reference architecture creation, and design reviews

Nice to Have:

Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud architectures

Experience guiding engineering teams through cloud platform modernization

Prior enterprise financial-services cloud transformation work

Experience embedding guardrails, service perimeters, or DLP/tokenization

Networking specialty (Cloud Armor, VPC SC, advanced routing patterns)

Job Summary:

The Software Engineer 4 will serve as a senior Google Cloud Platform Architect / Platform Engineer responsible for designing secure, resilient, and enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure. The engineer will work across networking, security, IAM, data analytics, and modernization initiatives to create best-practice Google Cloud Platform landing zones, Terraform-based IaC frameworks, and platform-aligned architectural patterns.

This role solves complex multi-factor engineering problems, drives large-scale cloud modernization strategies, and partners with Enterprise Architecture, InfoSec, Data Engineering, and Platform Engineering teams. The engineer plays a strategic role in shaping cloud posture, platform maturity, governance models, and cross-cloud integration patterns.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
Google Cloud Platform Architecture & Platform Engineering

Design VPCs, PSC, LB, routing, Interconnect, VPN, IAM/KMS, logging/monitoring

Build multi-zone and multi-region architectures for enterprise workloads

Partner with InfoSec to enforce governance compliance and secure-by-default controls
Terraform / IaC Engineering

Develop reusable Terraform modules for all Google Cloud Platform services

Maintain IaC pipelines (Terraform Cloud / TFE)

Implement guardrails, automated testing, and version-controlled deployments
Modern Data & Analytics Platform Development

Architect BigQuery datasets, Dataproc clusters, Dataflow pipelines, Pub/Sub patterns

Implement Dataplex taxonomies, zones, governance, and BigLake/Iceberg table formats

Integrate hybrid/on-prem ingestion, ETL/ELT, and validation patterns
Security, Compliance & Governance

Enforce least privilege, IAM roles, VPC SC, DLP, tokenization

Embed policies into IaC blueprints for consistent enterprise adoption
Resiliency, Observability & Cost Governance

Implement SLIs/SLOs, reliability patterns, DR/BCP

Build logging, metrics, and alerting across Google Cloud Platform workloads

Drive FinOps and cost-optimization recommendations
Migration & Integration

Support migration of Teradata, SQL Server, Oracle, Hadoop workloads into Google Cloud Platform

Validate data parity, performance, and operational readiness post-migration
Architecture Documentation & Leadership Interface

Produce HLDs, LLDs, reference architectures, design patterns

Lead architecture walkthroughs with EA, InfoSec, platform engineering, and leadership

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