Remote GCP Architect: Cloud-Native & API Security Expert

UST; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer matching

Paid time off

Job summary

UST is seeking a GCP Architect to design enterprise-scale Google Cloud architectures with security, scalability, reliability, and cost optimization in mind. This role focuses on landing zones, governance, and platform engineering.

You will lead migrations from on-premises and multi-cloud environments, define API strategies, and implement IaC with Terraform, GKE, Cloud Run, and Kubernetes, while promoting OpenAPI standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification.
• 5+ years of hands-on Google Cloud experience.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) expertise.
• Proficiency with Terraform.
• OAuth 2.0 authentication knowledge.
• Good to have Apigee.

Responsibilities

• Define multi-project landing zones, networking, IAM, and governance.
• Lead cloud migration and modernization initiatives from on-premises and multi-cloud environments.
• Establish platform engineering practices and reusable cloud patterns.
• Define API-led connectivity strategies and reusable service architectures.
• Develop API security models using OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, mTLS, and certificate-based authentication.
• Guide teams on API design best practices using OpenAPI/Swagger standards.
• Design cloud-native applications on GKE, Cloud Run, and Kubernetes platforms.
• Architect microservices and container-based workloads.
• Define service mesh, ingress, observability, and resiliency patterns.
• Support modernization of monolithic applications into microservices architectures.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Design CI/CD pipelines integrating Apigee deployments and API testing.
• Automate environment provisioning and configuration management.
• Integrate security controls into deployment pipelines.

Skills

Google Cloud Platform

OAuth 2.0

Infrastructure as Code

mTLS

REST

OpenAPI/Swagger

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification

Tools

Terraform

Apigee

Job description

UST is seeking a GCP Architect to design enterprise-scale Google Cloud architectures with security, scalability, reliability, and cost optimization in mind. This role focuses on landing zones, governance, and platform engineering.

You will lead migrations from on-premises and multi-cloud environments, define API strategies, and implement IaC with Terraform, GKE, Cloud Run, and Kubernetes, while promoting OpenAPI standards.