Senior GCP Cloud Architect – Remote, Multi‑Cloud Leader

Apex Systems; St. Louis (MO); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Apex Systems is seeking a Senior GCP Cloud Architect to lead hands-on cloud architecture across GCP with strong Azure and AWS awareness. You will design, review, and remediate cloud patterns, landing zones, and shared services in a multi-cloud environment.

In this contract role, you will collaborate with engineering, security, DevOps, and governance teams to ensure alignment with enterprise standards, security requirements, and compliance objectives.

Qualifications

• 10+ years IT infrastructure, cloud, or solution architecture experience.
• 5+ years designing and implementing GCP solutions at enterprise scale.
• Deep expertise with: Google Cloud Landing Zones, Shared VPC Architecture, IAM and Organization Policies, Cloud Networking and Security, Kubernetes/GKE, Cloud Operations and Governance.
• Working knowledge of Azure and AWS architecture principles.
• Strong understanding of cloud governance, security, networking, and architecture review processes.
• Experience supporting architecture governance functions such as TRBs and design reviews.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, review, and remediation of GCP-based cloud architectures, landing zones, and shared services.
• Provide architectural guidance across multi-cloud environments, with GCP serving as the primary area of expertise.
• Define and enforce architecture patterns related to identity, networking, security, governance, and operational excellence.
• Translate enterprise standards into scalable and repeatable cloud solutions.
• Conduct evidence-based tradeoff analysis across cost, resiliency, performance, security, and operability.
• Participate in and facilitate Technical Review Boards (TRBs) and Cloud Architecture Review Boards (CARBs).
• Review and challenge solution designs across GCP, Azure, and AWS environments to ensure consistency with enterprise architecture standards.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, DevOps, and platform teams on cloud modernization efforts.
• Support compliance, governance, and risk management requirements through practical architecture guidance.

Skills

GCP architecture

Landing Zones

Shared VPC

IAM & org policies

Cloud networking & security

Kubernetes/GKE

Cloud governance

TRBs & CARBs

Azure & AWS knowledge

Cost/resiliency tradeoffs

Job description

Apex Systems is seeking a Senior GCP Cloud Architect to lead hands-on cloud architecture across GCP with strong Azure and AWS awareness. You will design, review, and remediate cloud patterns, landing zones, and shared services in a multi-cloud environment.

In this contract role, you will collaborate with engineering, security, DevOps, and governance teams to ensure alignment with enterprise standards, security requirements, and compliance objectives.