Senior Cloud Platform Architect – Automation & Resilience

GCS Recruitment; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Hybrid working

Job summary

GCS Recruitment is seeking a senior Cloud Platform Architect in San Francisco for a hybrid, full-time role. You will define and drive the architectural vision across global SRE/DevOps operations and guide implementation for a cloud platform serving millions of users.

This hands-on senior IC will balance strategy with engineering, advancing automation, disaster recovery, and compliance across cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes. Strong leadership and IaC skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience at scale in infrastructure/platform engineering.
• Hands-on with cloud platforms (GCP or AWS).
• Strong Kubernetes and IaC skills.
• Proven track record in technical leadership and architectural decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Set architectural standards and drive technical alignment across the cloud portfolio.
• Own the technical roadmap for cloud infrastructure and automation.
• Architect solutions for high availability, disaster recovery, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Design automation frameworks that reduce manual work and operational toil.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance to engineering teams.

Skills

Infra/Platform engineering

Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS)

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as code

Technical leadership

Job description

GCS Recruitment is seeking a senior Cloud Platform Architect in San Francisco for a hybrid, full-time role. You will define and drive the architectural vision across global SRE/DevOps operations and guide implementation for a cloud platform serving millions of users.

This hands-on senior IC will balance strategy with engineering, advancing automation, disaster recovery, and compliance across cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes. Strong leadership and IaC skills are essential.