GCP Architect: Enterprise Cloud Transformation Lead

GlassHouse Systems; Lisle (IL); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health benefits

Life insurance

Pension plan

Professional development

Amazing company culture

Job summary

GlassHouse Systems is seeking an experienced Google Cloud Platform Architect to design, lead, and deliver enterprise cloud transformation initiatives for clients. You will act as a trusted advisor, defining cloud strategy and architecting scalable, secure solutions leveraging Google Cloud.

The role combines deep technical expertise with client-facing consulting to guide complex migrations, modernization, and application transformation in regulated environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, cloud consulting, or solution architecture.
• 5+ years designing and delivering public cloud solutions.
• Hands-on experience implementing enterprise-scale Google Cloud solutions.
• Experience leading cloud migration and modernization projects.
• Consulting or professional services experience is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end cloud architectures leveraging Google Cloud services and best practices.
• Develop cloud adoption roadmaps, landing zones, governance frameworks, and operating models.
• Lead cloud assessments and provide strategic recommendations for modernization initiatives.
• Define architecture standards, patterns, and reference architectures for enterprise environments.
• Architect scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions.
• Design solutions across compute, storage, networking, databases, analytics, and security domains.
• Lead workload migrations from on-premises, AWS, Azure, or other platforms to GCP.
• Support containerization, Kubernetes, microservices, and cloud-native application architectures.
• Collaborate with delivery teams to ensure successful implementation and operational readiness.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor for customers throughout the project lifecycle.
• Lead discovery workshops, architecture reviews, and executive presentations.
• Translate business requirements into technical architecture designs.
• Prepare solution documentation, architecture diagrams, proposals, and statements of work.
• Design secure architectures aligned with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Implement IAM, security controls, monitoring, and compliance frameworks into solution architecture.
• Establish governance, operational processes, and cloud financial management practices.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to consultants, engineers, and project teams.
• Mentor technical team members on cloud architecture principles and best practices.
• Contribute to practice development, service offerings, reusable assets, and thought leadership initiatives.

Skills

Google Cloud Platform

GKE

GCE

Cloud Storage

Cloud SQL

BigQuery

IAM

Security Command Center

Terraform

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Containerization

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

GlassHouse Systems is seeking an experienced Google Cloud Platform Architect to design, lead, and deliver enterprise cloud transformation initiatives for clients. You will act as a trusted advisor, defining cloud strategy and architecting scalable, secure solutions leveraging Google Cloud.

The role combines deep technical expertise with client-facing consulting to guide complex migrations, modernization, and application transformation in regulated environments.