Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
Qualifications
8+ years in cloud/platform/data engineering, including 4+ years hands-on with GCP.
Strong Linux, containers, and Kubernetes fundamentals; GKE experience preferred.
Expertise in IAM, networking, security best practices, and secrets management on GCP.
Proficiency in Terraform, CI/CD, Python or Go, and SQL; solid schema/design and performance tuning skills.
Proven ownership of production systems, on-call, and resilience improvements
Roles & Responsibilities
Sr GCP Cloud Architect (8+ years)
Summary
Lead architecture, implementation, and operations of secure, reliable, and cost-efficient solutions on Google Cloud Platform.
Strong candidate with Hands on experience in GCP, Terraform and scripting and automation
Responsibilities
Architect and deliver GCP workloads using Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL/Spanner, Pub/Sub.
Build infrastructure as code and CI/CD (Terraform, Cloud Build, Git) with environment promotion and guardrails.
Implement identity and security controls (IAM, service accounts, Secrets Manager, KMS, org policies, VPC Service Controls).
Design scalable networking (VPCs, subnets, NAT, load balancers, Private Service Connect) and interconnectivity.
Establish observability and SRE practices (Cloud Monitoring, Logging, Error Reporting; SLIs/SLOs, alerting, runbooks).
Develop data platforms and pipelines with BigQuery, Dataflow/Beam, Composer/Airflow, Dataproc; batch and streaming.
Automate operations with Cloud Functions/Run and APIs; drive reliability, performance, and cost optimization.
Lead incident response and postmortems; mentor engineers and document standards.
Generic Managerial Skills, If any
Preferred
Multi-project org/folder design and centralized policy controls.
FinOps, quota management, and cost governance.
Migration experience from on-prem or other clouds.