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# Cloud Platform Architect

- **Company:** GCS Recruitment Specialists Inc.
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Linux, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Electronic Design Automation, Python (Programming Language), Octopus Deploy, Prometheus, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, Grafana, Multi-Cloud, Gitlab, Kubernetes, Production Code, Software Coding, Terraform, Jenkins, Golang
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25197_aff3cb7e24f8bcef43c0b65e2110e55f

## About the Role

* 10+ years in infrastructure/platform engineering within large-scale production environments
 * Expert-level experience with GCP (or AWS), multi-region architectures, GKE optimisation, networking, and security
 * Deep Kubernetes expertise in production
 * Advanced Terraform development and IaC best practices
 * Strong coding skills in Python, Bash, and/or Go
 * Linux systems expertise across multiple distributions
 * Proven ability to create technical documentation and ADRs

Nice to have

 * Multi-cloud experience (AWS/Azure)
 * Compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP)
 * Demonstrated cost-optimisation wins
 * SRE/DevOps transformation leadership
 * Observability platform expertise
 * Disaster recovery design and implementation
 * GitOps and CI/CD pipeline expertise (Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD)

## Description

We're looking for a hands-on Cloud Platform Architect to lead technical strategy and drive transformation across our global SRE and DevOps operations. This is a senior individual-contributor role where you'll set the architectural vision, guide implementation, and influence technology decisions for a cloud platform serving millions of users worldwide.

As a key member of the engineering leadership team, you'll help move the organisation from manual operations to automated, intelligent workflows - balancing strategic architecture with hands-on coding (roughly 40-50% of the role). You'll work across multi-tenant GCP infrastructure, Kubernetes optimisation, disaster recovery, automation frameworks, and compliance solutions.

What you'll do

 * Define and enforce architectural standards across the cloud product portfolio
 * Lead technology evaluations and vendor selections with clear technical recommendations
 * Create Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) for major initiatives
 * Provide hands-on technical guidance to engineering teams on implementation patterns
 * Drive cross-product technical alignment and establish common standards
 * Own the technical roadmap for cloud infrastructure and automation
 * Architect solutions for multi-region HA, disaster recovery, and infrastructure-as-code
 * Design automation frameworks that eliminate manual processes and reduce operational toil
 * Build observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and GCP tooling
 * Write production-grade code in Python, Bash, and Go for automation and tooling
 * Develop Terraform modules and IaC patterns for enterprise-scale deployments