Google Cloud Architect

Slalom; Chicago (IL); In loco; USD 171.000 - 221.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

401(k) with match

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Well-being reimbursement program

Disability insurance

Descrizione del lavoro

Slalom is seeking a Sr. Principal to lead enterprise Google Cloud Platform infrastructure, modernization, and platform engineering initiatives.

You will shape architectures, governance, and cost optimization while guiding senior engineers and partners across the organization. You will translate business priorities into practical roadmaps, drive measurable outcomes, and establish standards for IaC, CI/CD, and DevSecOps.

Competenze

• Significant experience leading enterprise Google Cloud Platform infrastructure, migration, or platform engineering.
• Expertise in organization policies, IAM, shared VPC, security, governance, and cost optimization.
• Hands-on leadership with CI/CD tooling and automation.
• Strong knowledge of GKE, Cloud Run, storage, databases, observability, and reliability.

Mansioni

• Lead enterprise platform architecture and modernization initiatives across GCP.
• Translate business priorities into practical platform roadmaps and measurable value.
• Set standards for IaC, CI/CD, policy as code, DevSecOps, SRE, and readiness.
• Mentor architects and engineers and grow technical communities.

Conoscenze

GCP architecture leadership

Terraform & CI/CD

Kubernetes expertise

Executive stakeholder consulting

Cross-functional leadership

Strumenti

Terraform

Google Cloud CLI

GitHub Actions

Cloud Build

Descrizione del lavoro

• Google Cloud Platform leadership: Lead enterprise platform architecture and modernization across organization and folder design, project structure, landing zones, identity, networking, security, governance, observability, resilience, and cost management.
• Delivery leadership: Translate business priorities into practical platform roadmaps, engineering outcomes, and measurable value.
• Engineering excellence: Set standards for Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, policy as code, DevSecOps, SRE, and operational readiness.
• Migration and modernization: Guide assessment, planning, Google Cloud foundation readiness, workload transition, modernization, and stabilization.
• Solution shaping: Partner with Sales, Delivery, Google Cloud, and technical leaders to qualify opportunities, define scope, estimate work, and create repeatable offerings.
• Technical advisory: Review architectures and operating models, resolve complex risks, and guide practical decisions.
• People leadership: Mentor architects and engineers, grow capability, and strengthen technical communities.
• Cross-cloud collaboration: Apply GCP-first expertise across AWS, SaaS, security, data, and application ecosystems.

What You’ll Bring

• Significant experience leading enterprise Google Cloud Platform infrastructure, migration, modernization, or platform engineering programs.
• Deep Google Cloud Platform architecture expertise across organization policies and resource hierarchy, Cloud Identity and IAM, shared VPC and hybrid connectivity, security, governance, Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Run, storage and database services, observability, resilience, and cost optimization.
• Hands-on leadership with Terraform, Google Cloud CLI and APIs, GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, or comparable CI/CD platforms, scripting, and automation.
• Strong working knowledge of Google Kubernetes Engine and Kubernetes, including cluster architecture, fleet and policy management, workload identity, networking, upgrades, reliability, capacity planning, troubleshooting, and change management.
• Working knowledge of how data, analytics, and AI workloads influence Google Cloud Platform architecture, including their identity, networking, security, reliability, and cost requirements.
• Consulting experience communicating with executive, business, architecture, security, and engineering stakeholders.
• Experience shaping opportunities, defining scope, estimating delivery, and contributing to proposals and statements of work; P&L ownership is not required.
• Sound judgment under ambiguity, with the ability to evaluate evidence, isolate risk, and drive action.
• Collaborative leadership that develops others and remains accountable for quality and outcomes.
• Responsible use of generative AI and coding assistants, with rigorous validation and ownership of results.

Additional Experience That Is Valuable

• Google Cloud Platform migration and hybrid services, including Migration Center, Migrate to Virtual Machines, Database Migration Service, Storage Transfer Service, Google Distributed Cloud, VMware Engine, and hybrid connectivity patterns.
• Enterprise Google Kubernetes Engine spanning secure cluster patterns, fleet management, workload identity, service networking, policy enforcement, observability, upgrades, and platform operations.
• FinOps, reliability engineering, incident management, and postmortem practices.
• Multi-cloud architecture or delivery experience across AWS or other major cloud platforms.
• M&A integration, separation, tenant migration, or large-scale infrastructure transition experience.
• Relevant certifications such as Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Cloud Network Engineer, Professional Cloud Security Engineer, Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, Professional Cloud Developer, IT service management, or FinOps certifications.

How Success Is Demonstrated

• Clients trust your technical judgment and leadership on complex Google Cloud Platform decisions.
• Engineering teams deliver secure, automated, supportable Google Cloud Platforms using clear standards and repeatable practices.
• Google Cloud opportunities are shaped into realistic solutions with aligned scope, outcomes, risks, and delivery approaches.
• Architects and engineers grow through your mentorship, review, and example.
• You balance Google Cloud depth with the ability to select and integrate technologies that best support the client outcome.

About Us

Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries partner with clients to co-create powerful customer experiences, modern ways of working, and meaningful impact.

What sets us apart? We believe work should be challenging and fulfilling, not perfect, but possible. That’s why we prioritize purpose, flexibility, connection, and recognition, so our people can thrive and love what they do, most days.

Compensation and Benefits

Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that includemeaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.

Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The targeted base salary pay range for Sr. Principal is $171,000 to $221,000. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus

In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.

EEO and Accommodations

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