Google Cloud Architect

This is a contract position, and will require you to work 3 days a week from their London based office., As the Google Cloud Architect you’ll design and implement secure, scalable GCP Landing Zones, drive automation with Terraform, and architect Kubernetes (GKE) solutions.

This hands-on role involves collaborating with security, engineering, and DevOps teams to deliver robust cloud environments and manage multi-cloud migrations, ensuring compliance with enterprise governance standards.

Demonstrable experience designing and implementing secure, production-grade GCP environments, including Landing Zones, IAM, networking, and compliance controls.

• Strong hands-on ability with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code, including modular design, automation (e.g., GitHub Actions/Terraform Cloud), and CI/CD best practices.
• Proven capability in architecting and deploying Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters, including service mesh, autoscaling, workload identity, and observability.
• Solid understanding of GCP security, identity federation (SAML/OIDC), RBAC, Zero Trust networking, and VPC Service Controls.
• Experience leading cloud migration projects, including DNS, traffic switching, disaster recovery, and designing secure VPC networks with hybrid connectivity., Ideally have experience leading or supporting Datacenter EU to ZA migrations for either Google or Azure., Currently hold one or more Google Cloud Platform certifications would be advantageous.

Our client, a leading consulting company, are seeking a Google Cloud Architect to lead enterprise-scale Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure and security projects.