Position: GCP Cloud Architect (Onsite)

Location: Santa Clara, CA (relocation yes)

Duration : 6+ months

Job Description:

Sr. GCP Cloud Architect (8+ years)

Summary

• Lead architecture, implementation, and operations of secure, reliable, and cost-efficient solutions on Google Cloud Platform.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver GCP workloads using Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL/Spanner, Pub/Sub.
• Build infrastructure as code and CI/CD (Terraform, Cloud Build, Git) with environment promotion and guardrails.
• Implement identity and security controls (IAM, service accounts, Secrets Manager, KMS, org policies, VPC Service Controls).
• Design scalable networking (VPCs, subnets, NAT, load balancers, Private Service Connect) and interconnectivity.
• Establish observability and SRE practices (Cloud Monitoring, Logging, Error Reporting; SLIs/SLOs, alerting, runbooks).
• Develop data platforms and pipelines with BigQuery, Dataflow/Beam, Composer/Airflow, Dataproc; batch and streaming.
• Automate operations with Cloud Functions/Run and APIs; drive reliability, performance, and cost optimization.
• Lead incident response and postmortems; mentor engineers and document standards.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cloud/platform/data engineering, including 4+ years hands-on with GCP.
• Strong Linux, containers, and Kubernetes fundamentals; GKE experience preferred.
• Expertise in IAM, networking, security best practices, and secrets management on GCP.
• Proficiency in Terraform, CI/CD, Python or Go, and SQL; solid schema/design and performance tuning skills.
• Proven ownership of production systems, on-call, and resilience improvements.

• Multi-project org/folder design and centralized policy controls.
• FinOps, quota management, and cost governance.
• Migration experience from on-prem or other clouds.

If you are interested, please share your updated resume and suggest the best number & time to connect with you.