Senior Cloud Technical Architect

Insight Global; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Senior Cloud Technical Architect to join a major client in the large food distribution sector. The role centers on building a scalable data lake on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and supporting the migration of data and applications from AWS to GCP.

This highly visible position partners with data architects, engineers, application teams, and business stakeholders to design, implement, and optimize cloud infrastructure that supports the organization’s long-term

Qualifications

• Minimum 5-7+ years in IT industry.
• At least 3 years designing and supporting GCP infrastructure.
• Strong expertise across GCP services (networking, security, storage, compute, database).
• Experience with cloud migrations and enterprise transformation.
• Professional-level GCP certifications required (e.g., Professional Cloud Architect).
• Experience with IaC and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and optimization of GCP infrastructure for enterprise data platform.
• Architect and manage highly available, secure, scalable cloud solutions in GCP.
• Support migration of data workloads and infrastructure from AWS to GCP.
• Collaborate with teams to translate requirements into technical solutions and provide ops support.
• Develop migration strategies, assess environments, identify gaps, and propose remediations.
• Design and optimize core GCP services (BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Spanner, Dataflow, Dataproc, IAM).
• Establish cloud governance, security, access controls, and cost optimization.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve cloud infra issues ensuring high availability.
• Drive IaC initiatives using Terraform, GitHub, Jenkins, and Docker.
• Participate in architecture reviews and act as a technical leader for stakeholders.

Skills

GCP architecture

GCP networking

GCP security

IaC (Terraform)

DevOps practices

Cloud migrations

Stakeholder management

Communication

GCP certifications

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Jenkins

Docker

Job description

Requirements

• 5-7+ years of overall IT industry experience.
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience designing and supporting infrastructure within Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong expertise with GCP networking, security, storage, database, and compute services.
• Experience architecting and supporting cloud-based and hybrid-cloud infrastructures.
• Experience supporting cloud migrations and enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Professional-level GCP Certification required (Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Cloud Database Engineer, or equivalent).
• Strong understanding of GCP security controls, including IAM, RBAC, and organizational policies.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred) and DevOps practices.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to work directly with internal customers and cross-functional teams.

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• Experience supporting data platform, analytics, or data science environments.
• Exposure to enterprise data lake architectures.
• Knowledge of modern data engineering and analytics platforms within GCP.
• Experience working in large-scale enterprise environments undergoing cloud transformation

Job Description

Insight Global is seeking a Senior Cloud Technical Architect to join one of our clients in the large food distribution industry. This individual will play a critical role in the organization's enterprise Data Platform initiative, focused on building a scalable data lake within Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and supporting the migration of data and applications from AWS to GCP.

This is a highly visible role that will partner closely with data architects, engineers, application teams, and business stakeholders to design, implement, and optimize cloud infrastructure that supports the company's long-term cloud transformation strategy. While exposure to data analytics and data science environments is beneficial, this position is primarily focused on GCP infrastructure architecture, cloud engineering, and data platform enablement.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of GCP infrastructure supporting enterprise-scale data platform initiatives.
• Architect and manage highly available, secure, and scalable cloud solutions within Google Cloud Platform.
• Support the organization's migration of data workloads and infrastructure from AWS to GCP.
• Partner with application teams and stakeholders to gather requirements, translate business needs into technical solutions, and provide ongoing operational support.
• Develop cloud migration strategies, assess current environments, identify infrastructure gaps, and recommend remediation plans.
• Design, implement, and optimize core GCP services, including BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Cloud Spanner, Dataflow, Dataproc, networking, private service access, and IAM solutions to support scalable, secure, and high-performing cloud environments.
• Establish and enforce cloud governance, security, access controls, resource management, and cost optimization best practices.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve cloud infrastructure issues while maintaining high availability and performance.
• Collaborate with data architects, developers, network engineers, security teams, and cloud providers to ensure seamless solution delivery.
• Drive infrastructure automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) initiatives using tools such as Terraform, GitHub, Jenkins, and Docker.
• Participate in architecture reviews, engineering discussions, and continuous improvement efforts across the cloud environment.
• Serve as a technical leader and trusted advisor for internal stakeholders across the organization.