Overview:

Job Title: GCP Solution Architect

Location: This is a Hybrid role based in Nashville, Tennessee.

client is hiring a Senior Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Solution Architect responsible for designing, governing, and delivering secure, scalable, and highly available cloud-native solutions. This role provides end-to-end technical leadership across GCP architecture, Kubernetes, microservices, DevOps/GitOps, security, observability, and cloud modernization initiatives, while supporting pre-sales engagements, enterprise migrations, and large-scale transformation programs.

Your role
• Provide end-to-end architecture leadership for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) solutions across enterprise programs.
• Design and govern secure, scalable, and highly available cloud-native architectures on GCP.
• Lead architecture and delivery across Kubernetes (GKE), microservices, DevOps/GitOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation.
• Define and enforce enterprise-grade cloud standards, architectures, and best practices.
• Architect and guide large-scale cloud migration and modernization initiatives, including legacy platform transformation.
• Design and oversee GCP networking, IAM, security, encryption, and compliance architectures.
• Collaborate with engineering, platform, and security teams to ensure consistent architecture implementation.
• Support pre-sales activities, solution design, technical proposals, and customer presentations.
• Engage directly with customers and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Provide technical guidance across DevOps and GitOps pipelines, CI/CD workflows, and automation strategies.
• Define observability strategies, including logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting.
• Mentor engineers and architects, influencing multiple teams across delivery programs.
• Partner with delivery, SRE, and operations teams to ensure performance, reliability, and availability targets are met.
• Own architectural outcomes and drive alignment across large, complex transformation initiatives.

Your skills and experience
• Minimum 12+ experience as a Senior or Lead Cloud Architect, with deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong hands-on experience with GCP core services, including compute, storage, networking, and managed services.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes and GKE, including containerized microservices architectures.
• Strong experience designing and implementing cloud-native and microservices-based solutions.
• Proven experience leading enterprise cloud migrations and modernization programs.
• Strong knowledge of GCP IAM, security, encryption, networking, and governance models.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps/GitOps practices.
• Strong experience with infrastructure automation, including Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience defining and implementing observability frameworks, including monitoring, logging, and tracing.
• Ability to operate in customer-facing roles, including pre-sales, architecture reviews, and executive discussions.
• Strong architectural leadership skills with the ability to influence across multiple teams and stakeholders..
• Strong mentoring and leadership skills to develop engineers and architects.
• Comfortable working across pre-sales, delivery, and transformation programs.
• Capable of managing multiple concurrent priorities in complex enterprise environments.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across onshore and offshore teams.
• Commitment to security, reliability, scalability, and engineering excellence.

Skills:

GCP