Senior GCP Cloud Architect: Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Innovator

Highbrow Technology Inc; Greenwood Village (CO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Highbrow Technology Inc in Greenwood Village, CO is seeking an experienced Senior GCP Cloud Architect to lead enterprise cloud initiatives, architecture, and migration efforts. You will shape hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, govern integration patterns, and drive cloud-native modernization with Kubernetes and IaC.

You will mentor teams, collaborate with stakeholders, define security and governance standards, and partner with DevOps to implement CI/CD pipelines across GCP services such as

Qualifications

• 8+ years of enterprise IT architecture experience, including 4+ years hands-on GCP architecture, design, and implementation.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field. Master's degree preferred.
• Strong expertise in GCP architecture, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud environments, and enterprise application modernization.
• Experience with API gateway architectures, including Apigee and Cloud Endpoints, and synchronous/asynchronous integration patterns.
• Hands‑on experience with event-driven systems, Pub/Sub, Kafka, distributed caching, and microservices.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes/GKE, container networking, ingress controllers, Helm charts, and service meshes.
• Production‑level expertise in Terraform, GitOps workflows, Terragrunt, Ansible, and configuration management.
• Practical knowledge of GCP Shared VPCs, Cloud Interconnect, firewall rules, Private Service Connect, and Cloud Armor.
• Experience with cloud security, identity and access management, encryption, compliance, governance, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and governance of enterprise GCP solutions supporting digital transformation and modernization initiatives.
• Design hybrid and multi-cloud architectures integrating GCP with on-premises data centers, enterprise applications, and third-party platforms.
• Establish scalable integration patterns using APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native services.
• Lead legacy application, virtual machine, and workload modernization and migration to GKE, Cloud Run, and other cloud-native platforms.
• Define migration strategies, deployment roadmaps, transition architectures, and cutover plans.
• Architect event-driven integration frameworks using Pub/Sub, Eventarc, Kafka, and related messaging technologies.
• Design data integration and ingestion solutions using BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, and associated GCP data services.
• Establish API management standards, service communication models, and reusable enterprise integration frameworks.
• Drive IaC adoption using Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, GitOps, and configuration management practices.
• Partner with DevOps, SRE, and application teams to implement CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Define cloud security, governance, compliance, IAM, encryption, networking, and observability standards.
• Lead architecture reviews and technical design workshops while mentoring engineering, platform, and integration teams.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and engineering leaders to translate strategic objectives into scalable cloud solutions.

Skills

GCP architecture

Enterprise IT architecture

Hybrid/multi-cloud

Kubernetes / GKE

API gateway (Apigee / Cloud Endpoints)

Terraform / GitOps

Security & governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Ansible

GitOps

Kafka

Pub/Sub

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Cloud Endpoints

Apigee

Job description

Highbrow Technology Inc in Greenwood Village, CO is seeking an experienced Senior GCP Cloud Architect to lead enterprise cloud initiatives, architecture, and migration efforts. You will shape hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, govern integration patterns, and drive cloud-native modernization with Kubernetes and IaC.

You will mentor teams, collaborate with stakeholders, define security and governance standards, and partner with DevOps to implement CI/CD pipelines across GCP services such as