Cloud Solutions Architect (Google Cloud)
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About the Role
Devoteam seeks a Cloud Solutions Architect to design and deliver scalable, secure cloud architectures on Google Cloud Platform. The role involves leading workload migrations, defining DevOps practices, and implementing cloud landing zones.
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Responsibilities
- Design end to end cloud architectures on Google Cloud Platform supporting enterprise workloads and cloud native applications
- Lead workload migration from on premise or other cloud platforms to Google Cloud using structured migration frameworks
- Define DevOps and platform engineering architectures including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and release management
- Define migration strategies including rehost, replatform, refactor, rebuild, and replace approaches
- Design and implement cloud landing zones aligned with security, governance, and compliance requirements
- Architect scalable and resilient infrastructure solutions leveraging GCP services such as Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, GKE, and Cloud Run
- Lead migration assessments including application discovery, dependency mapping, and migration wave planning
- Collaborate with engineering teams to implement Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform
- Ensure operational readiness through monitoring, logging, and reliability best practices
- Provide technical leadership and architecture guidance throughout cloud migration and modernization programs
- Support pre sales activities including architecture workshops and technical proposal development
- Contribute to internal capability development, best practices, and reusable architecture patterns
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- 5+ years of experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure engineering, or cloud consulting
- Strong experience designing solutions on Google Cloud Platform
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification
- Experience leading enterprise workload migrations to public cloud
- Experience implementing DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure including compute, storage, networking, and identity management
- Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes (GKE preferred)
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or similar tools
- Strong understanding of cloud networking including VPC design, hybrid connectivity, and security controls
- Excellent communication skills and ability to present architecture solutions to stakeholders
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Company Overview
- Devoteam is a technology consulting company with over 25 years of experience, present in 18+ countries across EMEA and beyond.
- Devoteam's culture is based on fairness, courage, ambition, learning, innovation, caring, and sharing.
- Values include respect, frankness, and passion.
Role Overview
- The Cloud Solutions Architect is responsible for designing and delivering scalable, secure, and resilient cloud architectures on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- The role focuses on enabling organizations to migrate, modernize, and optimize their workloads on the cloud.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Design end to end cloud architectures on Google Cloud Platform supporting enterprise workloads and cloud native applications.
- Lead workload migration from on premise or other cloud platforms to Google Cloud using structured migration frameworks and best practices.
- Define DevOps and platform engineering architectures including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and release management.
- Define migration strategies including rehost, replatform, refactor, rebuild, and replace approaches.
- Design and implement cloud landing zones aligned with security, governance, and compliance requirements.
- Architect scalable and resilient infrastructure solutions leveraging GCP services such as Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, GKE, and Cloud Run.
- Lead migration assessments including application discovery, dependency mapping, and migration wave planning.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to implement Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform.
- Ensure operational readiness through monitoring, logging, and reliability best practices.
- Provide technical leadership and architecture guidance throughout cloud migration and modernization programs.
- Support pre sales activities including architecture workshops, and technical proposal development.
- Contribute to internal capability development, best practices, and reusable architecture patterns.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure engineering, or cloud consulting roles.
- Strong experience designing solutions on Google Cloud Platform.
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification.
- Experience leading enterprise workload migrations to public cloud environments.
- Experience implementing DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure including compute, storage, networking, and identity management.
- Experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes (GKE preferred).
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or similar tools.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking including VPC design, hybrid connectivity, and security controls.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to present architecture solutions to technical and business stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong understanding of cloud network architecture including DR and cloud services and replication methodologies.
- Deep expertise in core infrastructure services (e.g. AD, DNS, DHCP, ADFS).
- Experience with automated infrastructure discovery and application dependency mapping tools.
- Knowledge of cloud cost management and optimization strategies, including FinOps principles.
- Familiarity with agile software development practices, DevSecOps integration, and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins).
- Familiarity with Database technologies (e.g. Oracle, SAP).
- Additional architecture certifications in AWS or Azure (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert).
- Knowledge of local and international compliance and regulatory frameworks (NCA, SAMA, ISO 27001).
- Experience in a client facing, consulting role is highly desirable.
- Experience with observability and monitoring platforms.
- Experience with application modernization and containerized workloads.
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