Google Cloud Platform Solution Architect

Google Cloud Platform Solution Architect

Location: Nashville, TN

Job Type: Full Time

Senior Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) Solution Architect responsible for designing, governing, and delivering secure, scalable, and highly available cloudnative solutions. This role provides endtoend technical leadership across Google Cloud Platform architecture, Kubernetes, microservices, DevOps/GitOps, security, observability, and cloud modernization initiatives, while supporting presales engagements, enterprise migrations, and largescale transformation programs.

Responsibilities

• Provide endtoend architecture leadership for Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) solutions across enterprise programs.
• Design and govern secure, scalable, and highly available cloudnative architectures on Google Cloud Platform.
• Lead architecture and delivery across Kubernetes (GKE), microservices, DevOps/GitOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation.
• Define and enforce enterprisegrade cloud standards, architectures, and best practices.
• Architect and guide largescale cloud migration and modernization initiatives, including legacy platform transformation.
• Design and oversee Google Cloud Platform networking, IAM, security, encryption, and compliance architectures.
• Collaborate with engineering, platform, and security teams to ensure consistent architecture implementation.
• Support presales activities, solution design, technical proposals, and customer presentations.
• Engage directly with customers and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Provide technical guidance across DevOps and GitOps pipelines, CI/CD workflows, and automation strategies.
• Define observability strategies, including logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting.
• Mentor engineers and architects, influencing multiple teams across delivery programs.
• Partner with delivery, SRE, and operations teams to ensure performance, reliability, and availability targets are met.
• Own architectural outcomes and drive alignment across large, complex transformation initiatives.

Skills & Experience

• Minimum 12+ experience as a Senior or Lead Cloud Architect, with deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform).
• Strong handson experience with Google Cloud Platform core services, including compute, storage, networking, and managed services.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes and GKE, including containerized microservices architectures.
• Strong experience designing and implementing cloudnative and microservicesbased solutions.
• Proven experience leading enterprise cloud migrations and modernization programs.
• Strong knowledge of Google Cloud Platform IAM, security, encryption, networking, and governance models.
• Handson experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps/GitOps practices.
• Strong experience with infrastructure automation, including Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience defining and implementing observability frameworks, including monitoring, logging, and tracing.
• Ability to operate in customerfacing roles, including presales, architecture reviews, and executive discussions.
• Strong architectural leadership skills with the ability to influence across multiple teams and stakeholders..
• Strong mentoring and leadership skills to develop engineers and architects.
• Comfortable working across presales, delivery, and transformation programs.
• Capable of managing multiple concurrent priorities in complex enterprise environments.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across onshore and offshore teams.
• Commitment to security, reliability, scalability, and engineering excellence.