TELECOMMUTE Solution Architect - Solutions and Platform Advisory

• Lead client workshops, cloud-readiness assessments, infrastructure evaluations and executive briefings to define Google Cloud adoption strategies and transformation roadmaps.
• Own end-to-end technical solution architecture for pre-sales engagements, including effort estimation, cost analysis, Bills of Materials (BOM), Statements of Work (SOW), RFP responses and technical proposals.
• Develop business cases, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analyses and Return on Investment (ROI) models.
• Design enterprise Google Cloud landing zones, including resource hierarchy, IAM, Organization Policies, billing structures, centralized logging, monitoring and governance.
• Architect enterprise networking and security solutions using Shared VPC, hub-and-spoke architectures, Cloud Interconnect, HA VPN, Cloud Armor, VPC Service Controls, Cloud KMS and Security Command Center.
• Design modern cloud-native solutions using GKE, Kubernetes, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Spanner and other Google Cloud Platform services.
• Develop data and analytics architectures using BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Pub/Sub and Cloud Storage, while identifying opportunities for Vertex AI and generative AI.
• Design high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions, including RPO/RTO definition, backup strategies and disaster-recovery testing.
• Establish Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation and platform engineering standards using Terraform, Cloud Build, Artifact Registry and GitOps.
• Implement FinOps and cloud cost-governance strategies, including rightsizing, budgets, billing analysis and cost optimization.
• Provide architecture governance, conduct technical design reviews, mentor engineering teams and develop reusable reference architectures and solution accelerators

The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform), enterprise architecture, cloud migration, security, infrastructure automation and pre-sales solutioning, along with excellent client-facing and stakeholder-management skills., * 15+ years of experience in enterprise technology, with significant solution architecture and solutioning experience.

• 10+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, applications or cloud technologies, including at least 5 years of architecting and delivering solutions on Google Cloud Platform.
• Current Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification (mandatory).
• Strong experience designing Google Cloud Platform landing zones, resource hierarchies, IAM, governance, networking and enterprise security controls.
• Proven experience leading large-scale migrations of servers, databases and applications to Google Cloud.
• Strong knowledge of GKE, Kubernetes, containers, serverless architectures and application modernization.
• Hands-on expertise in Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, Cloud Build and GitOps practices.
• Scripting experience with Python, Bash or Go.
• Experience with cloud security, compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA and GDPR.
• Experience in consulting, pre-sales solutioning, RFP responses, SOW development, effort estimation and technical proposal preparation.
• Strong understanding of TCO, ROI, business-case development and cloud cost optimization.
• Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to engage C-level executives and engineering teams.

The annual base salary ranges from $175,000 to $225,000, depending on experience, skills, qualifications and geographic location.

offers the following benefits:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Flexible work schedule
• Professional development assistance