GCP Data Architect

Virtusa; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Virtusa in Phoenix, AZ is seeking an experienced Cloud Infrastructure professional to lead Google Cloud security and policy-as-code initiatives, focusing on IAM, VPC, logging, and guardrails.

You will develop PaC frameworks (Sentinel and cloud-native policies) for IaC deployment pipelines and collaborate with CNAPP teams to enforce secure-by-default configurations across cloud platforms. Strong Terraform, automation, and software development background is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• 6+ years of experience with Google Cloud Infrastructure foundational capabilities IAM, VPC, Cloud Logging, Security controls, Storage and Compute.
• 6+ years of experience with Policy as a Code (Sentinel), Infrastructure automation tools (Terraform).
• Experience defining policy-as-code frameworks for IaC deployment pipelines and implementing secure-by-default configurations.

Skills

Google Cloud

Policy as Code

Terraform

Security controls

Cloud architecture

Java

Go

Python

Infra automation

Education

Bachelor's or master's in CS/CE or related

Tools

Sentinel

Terraform

GCP Console

Job description

Job Requirements

P1C3STSBachelor's or master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience6 + years of experience with Google Cloud Infrastructure foundational capabilities IAM, VPC, Cloud Logging, Security controls, Storage and Compute 6+ years of experience with Policy as a Code (Sentinel), Infrastructure automation tools (Terraform) and with a focus on implementing security controls for all type of cloud native infrastructureEvaluating the cloud native offerings and documenting controls, standards, processes, and proceduresPerform feasibility of study to define the convert the controls into scope for policy as a code enablementDefine and developing policy-as-code frameworks (e.g., Sentinel and cloud native) for Infrastructure-as-Code deployment pipeline (e.g., Terraform).Improve PaC (policy-as-code) and guardrails (Sentinel, native cloud policies) by closely working with CNAPP to enforce secure-by-default configurations across cloud platforms.In-depth understanding of Public Cloud native offerings related to Compute, Storage, Data, Telephony, Agentic AI and underlying architectures for troubleshooting, reproducing, and determining the root cause for customer-reported issues and enabling policies. Understanding of cloud architecture to ensure high availability while ensuring the highest level of security and visibility Experience with Network Isolation, Data Security, Identity, Logging and Monitoring tools such as Cloud logging, metrics, XQL and other mechanism.FinOps (cloud) domain knowledge preferredSoftware development experience in one of the OO programming language: Java, Go and or PythonAbility to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutionsWillingness to learn new technologies quickly and exploit them to their optimal potentialAct as consultant and subject matter expert for internal stakeholders in engineering, sales, customer organizations to resolve technical deployment obstacles and improve Google Cloud

• GCP
• Google Cloud
• Data Security, Identity, Logging and Monitorin
• Agile

Job Requirements

P1C3STSBachelor's or master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience6 + years of experience with Google Cloud Infrastructure foundational capabilities IAM, VPC, Cloud Logging, Security controls, Storage and Compute 6+ years of experience with Policy as a Code (Sentinel), Infrastructure automation tools (Terraform) and with a focus on implementing security controls for all type of cloud native infrastructureEvaluating the cloud native offerings and documenting controls, standards, processes, and proceduresPerform feasibility of study to define the convert the controls into scope for policy as a code enablementDefine and developing policy-as-code frameworks (e.g., Sentinel and cloud native) for Infrastructure-as-Code deployment pipeline (e.g., Terraform).Improve PaC (policy-as-code) and guardrails (Sentinel, native cloud policies) by closely working with CNAPP to enforce secure-by-default configurations across cloud platforms.In-depth understanding of Public Cloud native offerings related to Compute, Storage, Data, Telephony, Agentic AI and underlying architectures for troubleshooting, reproducing, and determining the root cause for customer-reported issues and enabling policies. Understanding of cloud architecture to ensure high availability while ensuring the highest level of security and visibility Experience with Network Isolation, Data Security, Identity, Logging and Monitoring tools such as Cloud logging, metrics, XQL and other mechanism.FinOps (cloud) domain knowledge preferredSoftware development experience in one of the OO programming language: Java, Go and or PythonAbility to effectively interpret technical and business objectives and challenges and articulate solutionsWillingness to learn new technologies quickly and exploit them to their optimal potentialAct as consultant and subject matter expert for internal stakeholders in engineering, sales, customer organizations to resolve technical deployment obstacles and improve Google Cloud

Work Experience

7-10Years