GCP Cloud Architect

Maveric; Chennai, Bengaluru; Presencial; INR 4.000.000 - 7.000.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Maveric is seeking a Cloud Architect to define target architectures for a multi-cloud (GCP primary, AWS secondary) platform in a regulated financial services setting. You will shape landing zones, security controls and automation patterns while guiding IaC governance and architecture reviews with platform engineering, security, risk and senior stakeholders.

You will lead networking design, cost optimization, and FinOps principles while mentoring engineers and producing architecture documentation

Formación

• Deep hands-on GCP architecture experience: resource hierarchy, IAM, VPC, GKE, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, KMS.
• Strong AWS experience: Organizations/Control Tower, VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, KMS, CloudTrail/Config.
• Expert-level Terraform and IaC governance (policies, drift control).
• Strong networking and security fundamentals for regulated environments.
• Experience designing multi-account/multi-project landing zones at enterprise scale.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD and Git-based workflows.

Responsabilidades

• Define and own reference deployment architecture for cloud environments (landing zones, network topology).
• Design cloud-neutral patterns and environment archetypes for automation provisioning.
• Guide Infrastructure-as-Code approaches and policy-based governance.
• Architect for security and compliance in regulated settings (IAM, SCPs, encryption, logging).
• Define networking architecture (Shared VPC, hub-and-spoke, hybrid connectivity).
• Design for resilience, DR, cost optimization and FinOps.
• Review designs and present to stakeholders; collaborate with governance teams.

Conocimientos

GCP architecture

AWS architecture

Terraform

IaC governance

Security & compliance

Multi-account landing zones

CI/CD

Networking & security

Vertex AI

GKE/Azure familiarity

Herramientas

Terraform (module registries)

CI/CD tools

Git workflows

Descripción del empleo

Job Title

Cloud Architect

About the Role

We are building an internal, JSON-driven, policy-governed cloud provisioning and governance platform for a regulated financial services environment. As Cloud Architect, you will define the target architecture, landing-zone standards and multi-cloud strategy that this platform enforces, with GCP as the primary cloud and AWS as the second. You will work closely with the platform engineering team, security, risk and senior business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the reference deployment architecture for cloud environments: landing zones, network topology, identity, security and resource hierarchy, starting with GCP and then mapped to AWS.
• Design the cloud-neutral patterns, standards and environment archetypes (pre-approved templates) that automation will provision.
• Guide the Infrastructure-as-Code approach: Terraform module design, versioning, state management and registry-driven provisioning.
• Architect for security and compliance in a regulated setting: IAM, org policies/SCPs, encryption, private connectivity, logging and audit trail.
• Define networking architecture: Shared VPC, hub-and-spoke, hybrid connectivity (Interconnect/VPN), DNS, firewalling and segmentation.
• Design for resilience, DR, cost optimization and FinOps (labelling/tagging, budgets, rightsizing).
• Review designs from engineering and application teams, and run architecture review boards.
• Partner with governance and policy teams so regulatory requirements translate into enforceable cloud controls.
• Support AI/ML workload architecture (Vertex AI, GPU/TPU capacity, data access patterns) on the platform.
• Mentor engineers, create architecture documentation and present to director-level stakeholders.

Required Skills

• Deep, hands-on GCP architecture experience: resource hierarchy and organization policies, VPC/Shared VPC, IAM, GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Cloud KMS, VPC Service Controls, Cloud Logging/Monitoring.
• Strong AWS experience: Organizations/Control Tower, VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS, S3, KMS, CloudTrail/Config.
• Expert-level Terraform and an understanding of IaC governance (module registries, policy-as-code, drift control).
• Strong networking and security fundamentals for regulated environments.
• Experience designing multi-account/multi-project landing zones at enterprise scale.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD, Git-based workflows and configuration management (Ansible).
• Excellent communication, with the ability to present trade-offs and decisions to senior stakeholders.

Good to Have

• Azure architecture familiarity (management groups, VNets, Entra ID).
• Python scripting, and understanding of JSON-schema-driven automation.
• Policy-as-code tools (OPA/Rego, Sentinel, Checkov) and cloud governance frameworks.
• Experience with banking or financial services regulations and audit requirements.
• Cloud-native AI/ML platform experience (Vertex AI, SageMaker).
• Certifications: Google Professional Cloud Architect (strongly preferred), AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Terraform Associate/Professional.

Cloud Expertise Priority

1. GCP: primary, expected depth across the full stack.
2. AWS: strong working depth, able to design equivalent patterns.
3. Azure: awareness-level (good to have).