GCP Lead Architect

Position Title

GCP Lead Architect

Location

USA, Remote

Duration

Long Term Contract

Job description

The Cloud Architect is responsible for helping the organization deliver secure, resilient, automated, and cost-effective cloud and platform services that support enterprise workloads. As an architect, this role combines domain expertise, disciplined delivery, and effective stakeholder engagement to produce secure, supportable, and measurable outcomes. The role works across business, delivery, engineering, operations, security, and supplier teams as required.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of relevant experience in cloud and platform engineering or a closely related environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the methods, tools, controls, and lifecycle practices relevant to the Cloud Architect role.
• Experience working in complex enterprise environments with multiple technical teams, service providers, and stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage priorities, risks, dependencies, and deadlines while maintaining quality and customer focus.
• Proven ability to lead decisions, influence senior stakeholders, and create accountability across organizational boundaries.

Required Skills

• Cloud Architect
• Cloud and platform engineering
• Infrastructure as code and automation
• CI/CD and DevOps practices
• Resilience, security, and observability
• Technical troubleshooting
• Leadership and decision making
• Stakeholder communication
• Risk and issue management
• Continual improvement

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting large-scale transformation, transition, modernization, or managed-service environments.
• Knowledge of ITIL, Agile, DevOps, SIAM, and continual-improvement practices as relevant to the role.
• Experience operating in regulated, security-conscious, or contractually governed environments.
• Familiarity with automation, analytics, and modern cloud-enabled service-delivery practices.
• Preferred certifications: A role-relevant Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud certification, Kubernetes or Terraform certification where applicable, ITIL Foundation.

Role and responsibilities

• Own designs, standards, roadmaps, and technical decisions from concept through operational acceptance.
• Design, build, configure, and maintain cloud or platform services using repeatable engineering standards.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring, and recovery through infrastructure-as-code and pipelines.
• Apply security, identity, networking, resilience, observability, and cost-management controls.
• Troubleshoot platform issues and drive improvements to reliability, performance, scalability, and supportability.
• Set priorities, clarify accountability, coach contributors, and provide concise updates and recommendations to governance forums.
• Apply organizational security, privacy, risk, compliance, change, and documentation requirements to all assigned work.
• Define or track meaningful measures and use evidence, feedback, and lessons learned to drive continual improvement.