Senior GCP Solutions Architect / Sales Engineer

We’re seeking a Senior GCP Solutions Architect / Sales Engineer who combines deep Google Cloud Platform expertise with exceptional communication, relationship-building, and consultative problem-solving skills. This customer-facing role serves as both trusted technical advisor and hands-on cloud architect, helping Federal customers modernize mission-critical environments while identifying opportunities to expand long-term partnerships.

Why This Role Matters Technology alone doesn’t transform organizations-people do. You’ll solve business challenges through GCP while building trusted customer relationships and supporting strategic growth.

What You’ll Spend Your Time Doing

• Cloud Architecture & Solution Design - 30%
• Customer Discovery & Technical Workshops - 20%
• Hands-on Engineering & Technical Leadership - 20%
• Business Development & Portfolio Growth - 15%
• Proposal Support & Technical Presentations - 10%
• Innovation & Professional Development - 5%, * Design secure, scalable Google Cloud Platform environments.
• Architect GKE, Cloud Run, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, IAM, and networking solutions.
• Lead cloud migrations and modernization initiatives.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform.
• Implement CI/CD and GitOps pipelines.
• Lead customer discovery sessions and architecture workshops.
• Build trusted executive and technical stakeholder relationships.
• Support capture, proposals, and technical presentations.
• Identify opportunities to organically grow customer portfolios.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices., * Become a trusted technical advisor.
• Lead successful modernization initiatives.
• Support winning proposals.
• Identify follow-on opportunities.
• Help grow the cloud practice.

Why Join Us Join a growing cloud practice where you’ll influence technical strategy, strengthen customer partnerships, and help Federal agencies modernize with Google Cloud.

• 8+ years of cloud engineering or architecture experience.
• 5+ years designing Google Cloud Platform solutions.
• Experience with GKE, Terraform, IAM, networking, Linux, containers, and CI/CD.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Customer-facing consulting experience.
• U.S. Citizen eligible to obtain a Secret Clearance.
• Able to travel, * Google Professional Cloud Architect or Security Engineer certification.
• Federal Civilian experience.
• FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, Zero Trust knowledge.
• Vertex AI, BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Run, Firestore, Pub/Sub.
• Crossplane, Ansible, ArgoCD, GitHub/GitLab.
• Proposal/capture support experience.

Ideal Candidate A consultative engineer who enjoys solving customer business challenges, communicating with executives, leading architecture discussions, and growing trusted customer relationships.