GCP - L3 Architect

Job summary:

The Sr Architect designs and implements secure and scalable cloud solutions using GCP and Terraform for a large multinational organization, ensuring resilient infrastructure, optimized performance, and efficient cost management while working in a hybrid model and collaborating closely with cross functional teams to deliver high impact digital platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design robust GCP architectures that align with enterprise standards while ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency for complex business critical applications.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules that standardize infrastructure provisioning and minimize configuration drift across multiple GCP environments and projects.
• Implement infrastructure as code practices that improve deployment consistency, reduce manual errors, and accelerate delivery of secure cloud platforms.
• Configure and manage GCP identity and access management policies that enforce least privilege principles and safeguard sensitive enterprise data assets.
• Optimize GCP resource utilization through detailed capacity planning, rightsizing analysis, and proactive monitoring to maintain performance and control operational costs.
• Collaborate with application teams to design target architectures that integrate networking, compute, storage, and security controls in a cohesive GCP solution.
• Create clear technical documentation and architecture diagrams that guide engineering teams in implementing and supporting the designed GCP solutions.
• Coordinate with security and compliance partners to embed required controls, logging, and encryption standards into every Terraform based GCP deployment.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues in GCP environments by analyzing logs, metrics, and configurations to restore services quickly and prevent recurrence.
• Guide teams in adopting DevOps practices that integrate Terraform workflows with version control, code review, and continuous integration pipelines.
• Conduct design and code reviews for Terraform configurations to ensure adherence to best practices, internal standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Engage with stakeholders to translate business requirements into practical GCP architectures that deliver measurable outcomes for customers and internal users.
• Mentor junior engineers on GCP concepts, Terraform patterns, and operational excellence so that the broader team can deliver consistent quality solutions.

Qualifications

• Possess extensive hands on experience designing and operating production workloads on GCP including networking, compute, storage, and managed services.
• Demonstrate strong proficiency with Terraform including module design, state management, workspaces, and integration with continuous integration pipelines.
• Exhibit practical knowledge of GCP administration tasks such as organization setup, project structure, billing configuration, and policy governance.
• Apply working understanding of security and compliance frameworks in cloud environments including identity management, encryption controls, and audit logging.
• Bring proven exposure to hybrid work models with effective remote collaboration using enterprise tooling and structured communication practices.
• Show familiarity with monitoring and logging solutions on GCP and related tools to maintain observability and proactively address performance issues.
• Display experience in migration or modernization initiatives where on premises or legacy workloads were transitioned into GCP using structured methodologies.
• Maintain awareness of emerging GCP services and Terraform ecosystem enhancements and apply relevant innovations to improve platform reliability and efficiency.

Additional Responsibilities

• Provide Standards/Best practices on Platform Usage
• Cloud Architecture Reviews
• Advanced Troubleshooting - Handle Escalations
• Help Application Teams Deliver Value
• Eliminate Developer Friction
• Design for Consistency and Recoverability
• Level Up Cloud Security
• Standardizing Cloud Deployments
• FinOps
• Cloud Disaster Recovery & Cyber Resiliency
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Developer Empowerment & Productivity
• Good knowledge on cloud networking

Google cloud products we mostly use:

• Cloud run
• GKE
• IAM
• Compute VM's
• Load balancers
• Memory stores
• Log analysis
• Cloud storage
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) - mandatory skill