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# GCP Architect

- **Company:** UST Inc
- **Location:** Atlanta, GA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $100,000.0 - $150,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Configuration Management, Identity and Access Management, OAuth, OpenID, Swagger, JSON Web Token, Openapi, Google Cloud, Istio, Delivery Pipeline, Software Security, Apigee, Kubernetes, Api Design, Terraform, Api Management, Microservices
- **Published:** September 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/88395002/1

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification

 * 5+ years of recent hands- on Google Cloud experience

 * IaC

 * Terraform

 * OAuth 2.0

 * Good to Have - Apigee

## Description

UST is searching for a GCP Architect who will design enterprise-scale Google Cloud architectures aligned with security, scalability, reliability, and cost optimization requirements.

The opportunity:

 * Define multi-project landing zones, networking, IAM, and governance frameworks

 * Lead cloud migration and modernization initiatives from on-premises and multi-cloud environments

 * Establish platform engineering practices and reusable cloud patterns

 * Define API-led connectivity strategies and reusable service architectures

 * Develop API security models using OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, mTLS, and certificate-based authentication

 * Guide teams on API design best practices using OpenAPI/Swagger standards

 * Design cloud-native applications on GKE, Cloud Run, and Kubernetes platforms

 * Architect microservices and container-based workloads

 * Define service mesh, ingress, observability, and resiliency patterns

 * Support modernization of monolithic applications into microservices architectures

 * Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform

 * Design CI/CD pipelines integrating Apigee deployments and API testing

 * Automate environment provisioning and configuration management

 * Integrate security controls into deployment pipelines

This position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position. Other relevant essential functions may be required.


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