Senior Cloud Platform Architect — Multi-Region & Automation

Cloud Platform Architect (Senior)
California - Hybrid (3 days/week onsite) · Full-time

About the role

We're looking for a hands-on Cloud Platform Architect to lead technical strategy and drive transformation across our global SRE and DevOps operations. This is a senior individual-contributor role where you'll set the architectural vision, guide implementation, and influence technology decisions for a cloud platform serving millions of users worldwide.

As a key member of the engineering leadership team, you'll help move the organisation from manual operations to automated, intelligent workflows - balancing strategic architecture with hands-on coding (roughly 40-50% of the role). You'll work across multi-tenant GCP infrastructure, Kubernetes optimisation, disaster recovery, automation frameworks, and compliance solutions.

What you'll do

• Define and enforce architectural standards across the cloud product portfolio
• Lead technology evaluations and vendor selections with clear technical recommendations
• Create Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) for major initiatives
• Provide hands-on technical guidance to engineering teams on implementation patterns
• Drive cross-product technical alignment and establish common standards
• Own the technical roadmap for cloud infrastructure and automation
• Architect solutions for multi-region HA, disaster recovery, and infrastructure-as-code
• Design automation frameworks that eliminate manual processes and reduce operational toil
• Build observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and GCP tooling
• Write production-grade code in Python, Bash, and Go for automation and tooling
• Develop Terraform modules and IaC patterns for enterprise-scale deployments

What you'll bring

• 10+ years in infrastructure/platform engineering within large-scale production environments
• Expert-level experience with GCP (or AWS), multi-region architectures, GKE optimisation, networking, and security
• Deep Kubernetes expertise in production
• Advanced Terraform development and IaC best practices
• Strong coding skills in Python, Bash, and/or Go
• Linux systems expertise across multiple distributions
• Proven ability to create technical documentation and ADRs

Nice to have

• Multi-cloud experience (AWS/Azure)
• Compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP)
• Demonstrated cost-optimisation wins
• SRE/DevOps transformation leadership
• Observability platform expertise
• Disaster recovery design and implementation
• GitOps and CI/CD pipeline expertise (Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD)

What's on offer

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
• Life and accidental death insurance
• 401(k) plan and company incentive plan
• 11 paid holidays, two weeks' paid vacation (prorated by start date), plus additional leave options

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.