Cloud Infrastructure Architect (GCP)

AddSource • Remote (United States, US) • 4m ago

Title – Cloud Infrastructure Architect (GCP)

Duraton: Long Term

Location: Remote across Canada/USA (on-site as required for customer/team meetings)

Working hours: EST

Cloud : GCP , multi- cloud experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

Job Description:

Design and implement secure and scalable GCP landing zones for new and existing clients.
Develop and maintain network architectures that ensure high availability, performance, and security.
Create and optimize data pipelines on GCP to handle large volumes of data efficiently.
Architect Vertex AI-based MLOps infrastructure to support model training, versioning, and deployment.
Lead the security design for GCP environments, ensuring compliance with industry standards and best practices.
Utilize Terraform to automate infrastructure provisioning and manage IaC security.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members on GCP best practices.
Stay up-to-date with the latest GCP services, features, and industry trends.
Perform Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis for applications and services.,
Align GCP resources with tagging and labelling for showback and chargeback models for billing purpose
Must have performed showback model to implement cost attribution for multi-tenant platforms and systems across GCP environments
Create and roll out tooling, alerting, monitoring and reporting systems to showback cloud usage and costs to cloud users.
Prepare monthly cloud cost analyses and reports for enterprise consumption
Build Cloud Cost governance framework and guardrails
optimize cloud spendings, monitoring and analyzing cloud usage patterns and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align cloud spendings with business priorities.

Qualifications

Proven experience as a GCP Solution Architect with a focus on landing zone and networking design.
Extensive experience as a GCP Solution Architect with expertise in GKE, Composer, Dataflow, and Vertex AI.
Expertise in GCP networking, including VPC, subnets, firewall rules, and load balancing.
Strong understanding of on-premises networking and hybrid cloud connectivity.
Proficiency in designing and implementing data pipelines using GCP services like Dataflow, Pub/Sub, and BigQuery.
Deep knowledge of GCP security principles, including IAM, Cloud Identity, and security best practices.
Experience with infrastructure security and IaC security, particularly with Terraform.
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Strong communication and collaboration abilities, with the capacity to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Certifications such as Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect or Professional Cloud Security Engineer are highly desirable.