GCP Cloud Architect - Forward Deployed Engineering (Hands-on)

Virtusa Corp
  • Minneapolis, MN
    9 days ago

    Job Description

    Job Title: GCP Cloud Architect (Forward Deployed Engineering)

    About the Role

    We are looking for a hands-on GCP Cloud Architect / Forward Deployed Engineer to design, build, and operationalize enterprise-grade Google Cloud platforms. The role covers end-to-end ownership from Day 0 GCP setup through production deployment, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), SRE, observability, and Agentic AI platform enablement.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Design and implement enterprise GCP landing zones, IAM, VPC, Shared VPC, firewalls, Private Service Connect, and security controls.
    • Build and manage infrastructure using Terraform (Terragrunt preferred) with 100% Infrastructure as Code.
    • Establish SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, incident management, disaster recovery, and automation.
    • Implement monitoring and observability using Google Cloud Operations Suite, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or Datadog.
    • Design Multi-Zone/Multi-Region, Active-Active/Active-Passive architectures with backup, failover, business continuity, and RTO/RPO planning.
    • Implement secure authentication and authorization using OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, Zero Trust, IAM, API security, Secrets Manager, and KMS.
    • Deploy AI infrastructure using Vertex AI, GKE, Cloud Run, vector databases, and orchestration frameworks.
    • Build CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, or GitLab CI.
    • Collaborate with engineering, product, and client teams to deliver scalable cloud solutions.

    Required Qualifications

    • 6-8 years of hands-on experience designing and operating enterprise workloads on Google Cloud Platform.
    • GCP Professional Cloud Architect certification preferred.
    • Experience delivering at least 3 enterprise-scale GCP production projects.
    • Strong expertise in Terraform, GCP networking, IAM, security, and Infrastructure as Code.
    • Hands-on experience with SRE, observability, distributed tracing, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
    • Experience supporting AI/LLM infrastructure, including Vertex AI, GKE, Cloud Run, and model hosting.
    • Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, along with Docker and modern CI/CD tools.

    Job Title: GCP Cloud Architect (Forward Deployed Engineering)

    About the Role

    We are looking for a hands-on GCP Cloud Architect / Forward Deployed Engineer to design, build, and operationalize enterprise-grade Google Cloud platforms. The role covers end-to-end ownership from Day 0 GCP setup through production deployment, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), SRE, observability, and Agentic AI platform enablement.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Design and implement enterprise GCP landing zones, IAM, VPC, Shared VPC, firewalls, Private Service Connect, and security controls.
    • Build and manage infrastructure using Terraform (Terragrunt preferred) with 100% Infrastructure as Code.
    • Establish SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, incident management, disaster recovery, and automation.
    • Implement monitoring and observability using Google Cloud Operations Suite, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or Datadog.
    • Design Multi-Zone/Multi-Region, Active-Active/Active-Passive architectures with backup, failover, business continuity, and RTO/RPO planning.
    • Implement secure authentication and authorization using OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, Zero Trust, IAM, API security, Secrets Manager, and KMS.
    • Deploy AI infrastructure using Vertex AI, GKE, Cloud Run, vector databases, and orchestration frameworks.
    • Build CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, or GitLab CI.
    • Collaborate with engineering, product, and client teams to deliver scalable cloud solutions.

    Required Qualifications

    • 6-8 years of hands-on experience designing and operating enterprise workloads on Google Cloud Platform.
    • GCP Professional Cloud Architect certification preferred.
    • Experience delivering at least 3 enterprise-scale GCP production projects.
    • Strong expertise in Terraform, GCP networking, IAM, security, and Infrastructure as Code.
    • Hands-on experience with SRE, observability, distributed tracing, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
    • Experience supporting AI/LLM infrastructure, including Vertex AI, GKE, Cloud Run, and model hosting.
    • Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, along with Docker and modern CI/CD tools.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationMinneapolis, MN

    Skills

    • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
    • Authenticationunmatched
    • Automationunmatched
    • Bash Scriptingunmatched
    • Budget Managementunmatched
    • Cloud Architectureunmatched
    • Cloud Computingunmatched
    • Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
    • Continuous Integrationunmatched
    • Disaster Recoveryunmatched
    • Dockerunmatched
    • Failoverunmatched
    • Firewallsunmatched
    • GCP (Good Clinical Practices)unmatched
    • GitHubunmatched
    • Incident Managementunmatched
    • OAuthunmatched
    • Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
    • Registered Training Organisation (RTO)unmatched
    • Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
    • Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)unmatched
    • Security Infrastructureunmatched
    • Service Level Agreement (SLA)unmatched
    • Software Engineeringunmatched

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