GCP Cloud Architect

Role Summary

We are looking for experienced Cloud Architects to define, govern, and deliver enterprise‑grade cloud solutions across Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. The selected candidates will support ongoing and upcoming customer projects.

10+ years of overall IT cloud experience, including significant architecture and customer‑facing solution design experience.

Primary certifications aligned to the vacancy:
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.

• Own end‑to‑end cloud solution architecture for assigned customer engagements.
• Design secure, scalable, and highly available Azure and GCP architectures, including landing zones, subscription/project structures, networking, identity, security, monitoring, and governance.
• Translate business and technical requirements into architecture decisions, HLDs, LLDs, reference designs, and implementation roadmaps.
• Lead design discussions for migration, modernization, hybrid cloud, multi‑cloud integration, backup, disaster recovery, and resilience.
• Work with delivery teams to validate build approaches, review technical configurations, and support issue/risk resolution.
• Ensure architectures align with enterprise security, compliance, and operational standards, especially for banking regulated customers.
• Support technical workshops, customer presentations, architecture walkthroughs, and steering discussions.
• Contribute to effort estimates, technical proposals, BoM inputs, design assumptions, and solution dependencies where required.
• Guide automation and Infrastructure as Code adoption using appropriate tools and reusable patterns.
• Mentor engineers, architects and help establish repeatable cloud architecture best practices.

• Strong architecture expertise in Azure and/or GCP aligned to the assigned vacancy.
• GCP track: strong knowledge of organization/project structure, IAM, VPC/Shared VPC, firewalling, VPN/Interconnect concepts, Private Service Connect concepts, Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, load balancing, logging/monitoring, backup, and resilience.
• Proven capability in high‑level and low‑level design documentation.
• Experience with cloud governance, security baseline design, HA/DR, RTO/RPO‑driven architecture, and operational handover.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and automation patterns using Terraform, Bicep/ARM, scripts, and CI/CD principles.
• Strong stakeholder management and customer communication skills.

• Experience delivering cloud architecture for banking, financial services, or other regulated enterprises.
• Exposure to cloud migration programs, application modernization, platform engineering, and enterprise security tooling.
• Experience supporting presales, solutioning, technical workshops, and architecture governance boards.
• Working understanding of cost optimization / Fin Ops, observability, and operational excellence models.