Google Foundation and Security Architect

Role: Google Foundation and Security Architect
Location: Charlotte, NC - Remote

We are looking for a Core Google Cloud Architect to be the technical visionary for our cloud transformation. You will be responsible for the high-level design of our Google Cloud environment, ensuring it is cost-effective, high-performing, and "future-proof.”

Cloud foundations is being stood up for a financial client.  We are looking for a leader who is not to be told what to do.  It is to identify what is missing.  Are we thinking about security, threat management, logging.  We need to make sure networks, IAM services are secure.  The client is technical and looking for leadership who can talk in depth about Google Landing Zone, Security, Service Hardening.

What You’ll Do

Cloud foundations is being stood up for a financial client.  We are looking for a leader who is not to be told what to do.  It is to identify what is missing.  Are we thinking about security, threat management, logging.  We need to make sure networks, IAM services are secure.  The client is technical and looking for leadership who can talk in depth about Google Landing Zone, Security, Service Hardening.

Performance & Cost Scaling: Ensure our cloud grows with us. You''ll design systems that automatically get bigger during busy times and smaller during quiet times to save money.

Technical Leadership: Act as the final "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" on major technical decisions, ensuring they align with our long-term business goals.

What We’re Looking For

The "Big Picture" Thinker: You can see how a single change in a database might affect the entire global network.

Deep Google Cloud Platform Expertise: You are intimately familiar with Google’s core services (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud SQL, Spanner, and BigQuery).

Experience with Scale: You’ve designed cloud systems and landing zones for large financial companies before and know how to handle high volumes of data and users.

Bridge Builder: You can sit in a room with a chief architect, a security officer, and a CFO, and make sure all three walk away happy with the plan.  Communication skills are a must.

Certifications: A Google Cloud Platform Professional Cloud Architect certification is highly preferred for this role.