GCP Cloud Architect
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About the Role
Seeking experienced Cloud Architects to design secure, scalable cloud solutions on Azure and GCP, ensuring compliance and governance for enterprise clients.
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Responsibilities
- Own end to end cloud solution architecture for assigned customer engagements
- Design secure, scalable, and highly available GCP architectures including landing zones, networking, identity, security, monitoring, and governance
- Translate business and technical requirements into architecture decisions, HLDs, LLDs, reference designs, and implementation roadmaps
- Lead design discussions for migration, modernization, hybrid cloud, multi cloud integration, backup, disaster recovery, and resilience
- Work with delivery teams to validate build approaches, review technical configurations, and support issue/risk resolution
- Ensure architectures align with enterprise security, compliance, and operational standards, especially for banking/regulated customers
- Support technical workshops, customer presentations, architecture walkthroughs, and steering discussions
- Contribute to effort estimates, technical proposals, BoM inputs, design assumptions, and solution dependencies
- Guide automation and Infrastructure as Code adoption using appropriate tools and reusable patterns
- Mentor engineers/architects and help establish repeatable cloud architecture best practices
Requirements
- 10+ years of overall IT/cloud experience including significant architecture and customer facing solution design
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification
- Strong architecture expertise in GCP
- Proven capability in high level and low level design documentation
- Experience with cloud governance, security baseline design, HA/DR, RTO/RPO driven architecture
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep/ARM, scripts, and CI/CD principles
- Strong stakeholder management and customer communication skills
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Role Summary
- We are looking for experienced Cloud Architects to define, govern, and deliver enterprise grade cloud solutions across Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
- The selected candidates will support ongoing/upcoming customer projects.
- 10+ years of overall IT/cloud experience, including significant architecture and customer facing solution design experience.
- Primary certifications aligned to the vacancy: GCP roles: Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end to end cloud solution architecture for assigned customer engagements.
- Design secure, scalable, and highly available Azure/GCP architectures, including landing zones, subscription/project structures, networking, identity, security, monitoring, and governance.
- Translate business and technical requirements into architecture decisions, HLDs, LLDs, reference designs, and implementation roadmaps.
- Lead design discussions for migration, modernization, hybrid cloud, multi cloud integration, backup, disaster recovery, and resilience.
- Work with delivery teams to validate build approaches, review technical configurations, and support issue/risk resolution.
- Ensure architectures align with enterprise security, compliance, and operational standards, especially for banking/regulated customers.
- Support technical workshops, customer presentations, architecture walkthroughs, and steering discussions.
- Contribute to effort estimates, technical proposals, BoM inputs, design assumptions, and solution dependencies where required.
- Guide automation and Infrastructure as Code adoption using appropriate tools and reusable patterns.
- Mentor engineers/architects and help establish repeatable cloud architecture best practices.
Required Skill Sets
- Strong architecture expertise in Azure and/or GCP, aligned to the assigned vacancy.
- GCP track: strong knowledge of organization/project structure, IAM, VPC/Shared VPC, firewalling, VPN/Interconnect concepts, Private Service Connect concepts, Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, load balancing, logging/monitoring, backup, and resilience.
- Proven capability in high level and low level design documentation.
- Experience with cloud governance, security baseline design, HA/DR, RTO/RPO driven architecture, and operational handover.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and automation patterns using Terraform, Bicep/ARM, scripts, and CI/CD principles.
- Strong stakeholder management and customer communication skills.
Nice to have
- Experience delivering cloud architecture for banking, financial services, or other regulated enterprises.
- Exposure to cloud migration programs, application modernization, platform engineering, and enterprise security tooling.
- Experience supporting presales, solutioning, technical workshops, and architecture governance boards.
- Working understanding of cost optimization/FinOps, observability, and operational excellence models.
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