Senior Cloud Solutions Architect — GCP & Multi-Cloud Lead

ZealHire Inc.; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ZealHire in Salt Lake City, Utah, seeks an experienced Cloud Solutions Architect to design, secure, and optimize enterprise cloud solutions with a primary focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

You will lead migrations of legacy applications to the cloud, define scalable architectures, and guide DevOps and development teams while ensuring security, performance, and cost efficiency across GCP, AWS, and Azure.

Qualifications

• Experience designing enterprise cloud solutions on major cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of cloud architecture, distributed systems and microservices.
• Proficient with IaC tools: Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking, IAM, security, and cost optimization.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and GKE in production environments.
• Proven leadership and ability to guide cross-functional teams in public-sector projects.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable cloud solutions across GCP, AWS, and Azure.
• Lead legacy app migrations to cloud platforms.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and DevOps to define technical solutions.
• Design cloud databases, BigQuery pipelines, APIs, and integration architectures.
• Ensure security, performance, scalability, reliability, and cost optimization.
• Support Docker, Kubernetes, GKE, and containerized environments.
• Create architecture diagrams, technical docs, and integration specs.
• Design disaster recovery, backup, and high-availability solutions.
• Evaluate cloud technologies and recommend modernization improvements.

Skills

GCP expertise

Cloud architecture

Distributed systems

IAM security

Docker/Kubernetes

Leadership

Public sector

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

Ansible

CloudFormation

Pulumi

GKE

Job description

ZealHire in Salt Lake City, Utah, seeks an experienced Cloud Solutions Architect to design, secure, and optimize enterprise cloud solutions with a primary focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

You will lead migrations of legacy applications to the cloud, define scalable architectures, and guide DevOps and development teams while ensuring security, performance, and cost efficiency across GCP, AWS, and Azure.