Senior Cloud Platform Architect — GCP & AI Pipelines

NextGig; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, disabled

401(k) with company match

20 days vacation/yr

Job summary

Google in Washington, DC, is seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, automate, and scale mission-critical platform infrastructure across Google Cloud Platform, multi-cloud, and secure air-gapped environments. The role supports high-resilience systems for AI agent swarms and may require travel up to 25%.

Based in Reston, VA or Washington, DC, USA, you will architect, implement, and operate secure cloud platforms with Kubernetes, IaC, and advanced observability.

Qualifications

• You must have a Bachelor's in CS, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 5 years software engineering & infrastructure, architecting/operating secure cloud platforms.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud security architectures.
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance is required.
• Experience with IaC tools: Terraform, OpenTofu, or Pulumi.

Responsibilities

• Architect resilient GCP and hybrid platform infrastructure with IaC.
• Develop orchestration layers for AI agent swarms, optimizing GPU/compute & cost.
• Establish SLOs/SLIs & error budgets across distributed services with tracing & alerts.
• Eliminate operational toil via custom tooling, operators & self-healing pipelines.
• Execute chaos experiments to expose systemic bottlenecks.
• Adapt platform modules across secondary clouds and air-gapped/on-prem environments.

Skills

Go

Python

Rust

SRE practices

Observability

Incident response

Distributed tracing

Git workflow

Education

Bachelor's

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

OpenTofu

Pulumi

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Kafka

Git

Job description

Google in Washington, DC, is seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, automate, and scale mission-critical platform infrastructure across Google Cloud Platform, multi-cloud, and secure air-gapped environments. The role supports high-resilience systems for AI agent swarms and may require travel up to 25%.

Based in Reston, VA or Washington, DC, USA, you will architect, implement, and operate secure cloud platforms with Kubernetes, IaC, and advanced observability.