Cloud Platform Architect: Scale, Reliability & Automation

GCS Recruitment; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment is seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Architect to lead design, modernization, and automation of a large-scale cloud platform. You will define cloud architecture, improve reliability, automate infrastructure, and drive DevOps practices across engineering teams.

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

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE.

Responsibilities

• Design 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 Prometheus and Grafana.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to define cloud standards and best practices.
• Produce architecture documentation and ADRs.
• Drive cloud security, governance, and compliance initiatives.
• Mentor engineering teams on DevOps and cloud engineering best practices.

Skills

Cloud architecture

DevOps leadership

SRE practices

CI/CD design

Troubleshooting

Communication

Tools

GCP

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

Go

Bash

Linux

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

GitOps

IaC

Job description

GCS Recruitment is seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Architect to lead design, modernization, and automation of a large-scale cloud platform. You will define cloud architecture, improve reliability, automate infrastructure, and drive DevOps practices across engineering teams.

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