Lead Platform Architect GCP

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December 31, 2026 (30+ days left to apply) job requisition :
SR-39271

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*** About Fractal:
** Fractal Analytics is a strategic AI partner to Fortune 500 companies with a vision to power every human decision in the enterprise. Fractal is building a world where individual choices, freedom, and diversity are the greatest assets. An ecosystem where human imagination is at the heart of every decision. Where no possibility is written off, only challenged to get better.

We believe that a true Fractalite is one who empowers imagination with intelligence. And that it will be such Fractalites that will continue to build the company for the next 100 years.
** Key Responsibilities
** Lead and mentor a small team of Dev Ops, MLOps, and cloud engineers; promote high performance, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.  Architect and maintain scalable GCP infrastructure for AI agentic workloads (Vertex AI, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Artifact Registry, etc)
** Own Dev Ops and MLOps pipelines, including:
** CI/CD with Google Cloud Build (primary) and integration/experience with Jenkins for hybrid/legacy workflows.  Artifact management using Artifact Registry (primary) with exposure to Nexus Repository for proxying or migration scenarios.  IaC (Terraform preferred), container orchestration, and Python scripting/automation for custom tooling, Glue jobs, or pipeline extensions.
** Lead API endpoint security strategy, leveraging:
** Apigee for enterprise-grade API management, policy enforcement, quota, monetization (if applicable), advanced security, and analytics.  Complementary GCP-native tools:
Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP), Cloud Armor (WAF/DDoS), IAM least-privilege, OAuth 2.0/JWT/mTLS, Secret Manager, VPC Service Controls.  Zero-trust/Beyond Corp principles and threat protection for AI agent communications and customer-facing APIs.
** Champion Fin Ops practices on GCP:
** Implement cost monitoring (Cloud Billing, Fin Ops Hub), optimization recommendations (Recommender, Active Assist), commitment-based discounts (CUDs), budget alerts, and idle resource cleanup.  Drive cost allocation, forecasting, and cross-team accountability for high-cost AI workloads (e.g., model training/inference).  Collaborate with AI/ML engineers to product ionize agentic workflows with secure, governed access to models/data.  Ensure high observability (Cloud Operations Suite, Prometheus/Grafana), resilience, and SRE practices (incident response, post-mortems).  

Establish cloud governance, compliance, and disaster recovery aligned with business needs.
** Required Qualifications & Experience
** 8+ years in Dev Ops, cloud engineering, or infrastructure roles, with 4+ years deep hands-on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).  Proven people leadership (5+ reports) in agile/fast-paced environments.  Strong expertise securing APIs/services on GCP, preferably with Apigee (enterprise API management, policies, analytics) alongside IAP, Cloud Armor, IAM, and mTLS.
** Hands-on experience with:
** CI/CD:
Google Cloud Build + integration with Jenkins.  Artifact management:
Artifact Registry + familiarity with Nexus Repository.  GKE/Cloud Run, monitoring/logging.  Python for automation, scripting, and tooling in Dev…