GCP Architect - Onsite

Position Title: GCP Architect

Location: Charlotte, NC / Austin, TX (5 Days Onsite)

Duration: Long Term Contract

Job Description Overall Experience 14+ years in Enterprise Architecture. Cloud Experience 5+ years working on Cloud platforms (GCP preferred).

Lead enterprise cloud architecture initiatives with a focus on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Define cloud transformation strategies and modernization roadmaps.

Drive enterprise DevOps transformation initiatives.

Establish enterprise-wide governance, security, and compliance frameworks.

Conduct technical due diligence for mergers, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships.

Mentor Technical Leads.

Design scalable, secure, high-performing, and cost-optimized cloud solutions.

Cloud transformation strategies & modernization roadmaps.

Enterprise DevOps transformation.

Enterprise governance, security & compliance frameworks.

Mentoring Solution Architects and Technical Leads.

GCP Enterprise Services: Google Cloud Resource Manager, Google Cloud Organizations

Enterprise Architecture: Enterprise Integration, Distributed Systems Architecture

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Google Cloud Deployment Manager

Security & Governance: Google Cloud IAM, Security Command Center, Google Cloud Audit Logs, Organization Policy Service

Data & Analytics: Big Query, Dataflow, Pub/Sub

DevOps & CI/CD: Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy

Compute & Container Platforms: Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run

Networking & Hybrid Cloud: Cloud VPN, Cloud Interconnect

Cloud Modernization: Application Modernization (Monolith to Microservices), Containerization, Serverless Architectures, Migration Strategies (Lift-and-Shift, Re-platforming, Re-architecting), Cost Optimization & Performance Tuning