GCP Architect / Technical Lead

Own the overall GCP solution architecture and technical direction.

• Design a cloud-native architecture using appropriate GCP PaaS and managed services.

• Identify opportunities to use Google Cloud AI services within the solution.

• Guide the engineering team on GCP architecture, integration, security, scalability, and deployment considerations.

• Recommend GCP-native approaches rather than relying primarily on generic container-based solutions.

• Collaborate with consulting and application teams as the frontend/backend requirements become clearer.

Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Experience designing solutions using GCP-native PaaS / managed services.

• Strong cloud solution architecture experience.

• Experience working with Google Cloud AI capabilities/services.

• Experience designing integrations between cloud services and applications.

• Ability to provide hands-on technical leadership in a fast-moving project. xrbllit

• Strong communication and stakeholder collaboration skills.

Preferred / Relevant GCP Experience:

Candidates with practical experience across several of the following would be particularly relevant:

• Vertex AI / Generative AI on Google Cloud

• Cloud Run

• Cloud Functions

• API Gateway / Apigee

• Pub/Sub

• Cloud Storage

• BigQuery

• Cloud SQL / Firestore

• IAM and service accounts

• Secret Manager

• Cloud Logging / Cloud Monitoring

• Terraform or equivalent Infrastructure as Code