Google Cloud Platform Architect with IDP experience

Job Title: Google Cloud Platform Architect with IDP

Location: Chicago, IL-Hybrid, 3-days per week - locals only

Must Have Skills:

• Google Cloud Platform experience, certifications preferred.
• IDP experience

Requirements:

• Strong expertise in Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, roles, and permissions.
• Develop detailed and complex IAM designs for Google Cloud Platform implemented using Terraform.
• Work with the customer to evaluate their needs and assure correct governance and controls are implemented via IAM.
• Integrate Active Directory and other directory services into Google Cloud Platform.
• Understanding of federated identity, single sign-on (SSO), and multi-factor authentication (MFA) in cloud environments.
• Integrate SAML services into Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience designing and implementing secure identity and access governance frameworks in Google Cloud Platform.
• In-depth knowledge of resource hierarchy, service accounts, groups, and role-based access control (RBAC).
• Ability to define and enforce least privilege access models across multi-project and multi-organization environments.
• Familiarity with policy troubleshooting, audit logs, and compliance monitoring using Cloud IAM and Security Command Center.
• Hands-on experience integrating IAM with other security services like VPC Service Controls, Cloud Identity, and BeyondCorp.
• Experience automating IAM configuration and management using Terraform or other infrastructure as code tools.
• Ability to educate and collaborate with stakeholders on cloud security best practices and access management strategies.
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements and compliance standards related to cloud identity and access governance.
• Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure solutions on Google Cloud Platform platform.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to define infrastructure requirements and design scalable and reliable cloud architectures.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.
• Implement best practices for cloud security, compliance, and governance, including identity and access management (IAM), organization policy, deny policy, encryption, and network security.
• Experience with Hashicorp Vault and Google Cloud Platform Cloud KMS.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform cloud identity and GCDS tool.
• Monitor, optimize, and scale cloud infrastructure resources to ensure performance, availability, and cost-efficiency.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to cloud infrastructure, including performance bottlenecks, network connectivity, and resource contention.
• Develop and maintain documentation, standards, and policies for cloud infrastructure design and operations.
• Stay current with cloud technologies, trends, and best practices, and provide recommendations for continuous improvement.

Internal Developer Portal (IDP) Experience:

• Experience with Internal Developer Portals (IDP), particularly with Cortex, is highly desirable.
• Ability to design and implement IDP solutions to streamline developer workflows and enhance productivity.
• Experience with other Internal Developer Portals is also valuable for evaluation.