Cloud Platform Architect

GCS Recruitment; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS is seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Architect to lead the design, modernization, and automation of a large-scale cloud platform serving enterprise products and millions of users.

You will drive cloud standards, automation, and reliability across engineering teams, building multi-region, secure, highly available environments with IaC, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Infrastructure/DevOps/SRE or Platform Eng roles.
• Strong experience with public clouds (GCP and/or AWS).
• Deep Kubernetes production expertise.
• Advanced Terraform and IaC experience.
• Strong Linux administration.
• Experience designing highly available architectures.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid networking and cloud security knowledge.
• Excellent troubleshooting and leadership abilities.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable cloud infrastructure architectures.
• Build and maintain multi-region, highly available platforms.
• Develop and manage IaC using Terraform.
• Design, deploy, and optimize Kubernetes-based production environments.
• Create automation solutions to reduce manual tasks.
• Develop production-grade tooling with Python, Go, or Bash.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Define disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
• Build observability and monitoring with standard tools.
• Collaborate to define cloud standards and best practices.
• Produce architecture ADRs and technical design records.
• Drive cloud security, governance, and compliance initiatives.
• Mentor engineering teams on DevOps practices.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Linux admin

CI/CD

Networking

Security

SRE

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Architect to lead the design, modernization, and automation of a large-scale cloud platform supporting enterprise products and millions of users worldwide. This is a highly technical, hands-on role where you'll define cloud architecture, improve platform reliability, automate infrastructure, and drive DevOps best practices across engineering teams.

The ideal candidate combines deep cloud architecture expertise with strong software engineering skills and has experience building scalable, secure, highly available cloud platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable cloud infrastructure architectures.
• Build and maintain highly available, multi-region cloud platforms.
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Design, deploy, and optimize Kubernetes-based production environments.
• Create automation solutions to eliminate manual operational tasks.
• Develop production-quality tools and automation using Python, Go, or Bash.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Design disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
• Build observability and monitoring solutions using industry-standard tools.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to define cloud standards and best practices.
• Produce architecture documentation and technical design records (ADRs).
• Drive cloud security, governance, and compliance initiatives.
• Mentor engineering teams on DevOps and cloud engineering best practices.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Strong experience with public cloud platforms (GCP and/or AWS).
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments.
• Advanced Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience.
• Strong Linux administration skills.
• Experience designing highly available, fault-tolerant cloud architectures.
• Strong scripting/programming skills in Python, Go, and/or Bash.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid understanding of networking, cloud security, and identity management.
• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and technical leadership abilities.

Technical Environment

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Kubernetes (GKE preferred)
• Terraform
• Python
• Go
• Bash
• Linux
• GitLab CI/CD
• Jenkins
• ArgoCD
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• ELK Stack
• GitOps
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

What You'll Gain

• Opportunity to shape the architecture of a large-scale, cloud-native platform supporting millions of users worldwide.
• Work with modern cloud technologies, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Play a key role in defining cloud architecture standards, best practices, and long-term technical strategy.
• Design and implement highly available, multi-region, and disaster recovery solutions for enterprise-scale environments.

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.