Google Cloud Platform Architect (Remote)

Google Cloud Platform Architect

Contract/Fulltime

Remote

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and govern enterprise architecture strategies for cloud-native platforms and distributed systems.
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable solutions leveraging Google Cloud services and modern microservices architectures.
• Establish architectural standards, best practices, and governance frameworks across engineering teams.
• Provide technical leadership for large-scale infrastructure, networking, and security architectures.
• Oversee architecture reviews, solution design approvals, and technical risk assessments.
• Mentor team members and engineering leaders to build strong technical capabilities across the organization.
• Engage in pre-sales activities and drive the solution as per customer need

Required Skills:

• On- Prem to Google Cloud migration
• Kubernetes Administration, Manifest Creation, Understanding of Ingress-Egress and network policies.
• Design and implement highly resilient, scalable, secure cloud architectures using google cloud services .
• Expertise in implementing security, identity, and network services such as IAM, Firewalls and VPC's.
• Lead migration projects - on-premises systems to Google cloud platform, Hybrid architectures.
• Good exposure to enterprise practices, architectural principles, compliance such as HIPPA etc.,
• Act as mentor to muti-disciplinary teams and guide during day-to-day work.
• Provide technical and thought leadership.
• Hand-on experience in creating POC
• Expertise in Infrastructure as code tools such as terraform , Jenkins etc.,
• Expertise in DevOps, CICD pipelines.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders including internal and external stakeholders, such leadership, customers, and vendors,
• Understand business requirements and translate them into cloud architecture solutions.
• Develop and maintain documentation including but not limited to technical design documents, SoW's, transformation roadmaps etc.,
• Hands on expertise on Google cloud services such as GKE, Compute Engie, Alloy DB, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Big Query, VPC's, Container orchestration etc