Google Cloud Architect

Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology; Colorado; Remote; USD 125,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

The Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology is seeking a Google Cloud Architect to design and implement reliable and cost-effective cloud solutions. This remote role requires expertise in GCP services and Infrastructure as Code, with responsibilities including network design, automation, and continuous improvement in cloud operations. Ideal candidates will have over five years of experience in infrastructure development.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Pension plan

Qualifications

• 5+ years of infrastructure development experience with GCP services.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform.
• Understanding of large scale infrastructure deployments in enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement GCP infrastructure for secure, high-performing application hosting.
• Maintain expert knowledge of GCP and direct configuration and deployment.
• Act as Tier-3 escalation point, troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues.

Skills

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

GCP foundation services

Automation technologies

Load balancing

Horizontal scalability

High availability

Tools

Terraform

Job description

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Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology provided pay range

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Base pay range

$125,000.00/yr - $135,000.00/yr

This is position is remote from anywhere in Colorado, ONLY

Do you want to make our beautiful state even better? At OIT, we provide secure digital services that put Coloradans first. The Google Cloud Architect designs and implements the foundational infrastructure for a reliable, secure, high-performing, and cost-effective application hosting environment on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role requires deep technical expertise in core GCP infrastructure services and a proven ability to translate architectural designs into tangible deployments. This involves determining the best network design for the cloud, setting standards for VPC design and deployment, ensuring appropriate role-based access controls are established, and designing reusable configurations. You'll also implement automated provisioning strategies for various GCP compute resources and applications, including virtual machines, serverless, and managed services, and establish the monitoring and reporting required for environment stability, capacity management, and accurate, timely cost reporting.

You will be responsible for crafting, publishing, socializing, and overseeing adherence to established standards, modifying them to achieve OIT's strategic goals and the tactical needs of cloud-deployed applications. In addition, you will drive continuous improvement within the CloudOps team, as well as lifecycle management and exploration into evolving cloud-based solutions. You will handle the research, recommendations, and day-to-day interactions with partner vendors to help meet work unit and organizational objectives. If using your creativity and innovation in the development and delivery of impactful cloud-based solutions is what you love, apply today for the chance to also put your passion into the state you love!

Some of your day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Maintain expert knowledge and experience with all aspects of GCP to design and build Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) capabilities.
• Directly participate in the hands-on configuration and deployment of core GCP infrastructure components.
• Architect, oversee, and directly contribute to the implementation/configuration of GCP and automation to allow service consumption.
• Champion and implement an Infrastructure as Code (IaC)-first approach for all deployable resources within GCP.
• Define and document Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for consumption of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS (via IaC) on GCP.
• Create design documents/diagrams to show environment topology and data/process flows.
• Monitor system availability across a multi-vendor technology stack to maximize availability and rapidly diagnose/resolve issues.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues with a hands-on approach.
• Act as Tier-3 escalation point for on-call/break-fix efforts, collaborating with Cloud Engineers and vendors to diagnose and resolve complex problems.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A minimum of five (5) years of infrastructure development experience with hands-on experience with GCP foundation services related to compute, network, storage, content delivery, administration and security, deployment and management, automation technologies.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably using Terraform.
• Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability.
• Experience and understanding of large scale infrastructure deployments in enterprise-wide environments required.

Serving People. Serving Colorado.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting and Government Administration

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401(k)

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