Job Description

Job Title : GCP Cloud Architect

Location : Jersey City, NJ ( Onsite)

Experience : 15+ Years required

Primary Skillset : GCP, Python, Terraform, Security

Mandatory skills/experience :

• Cloud security fundamentals; control mapping/evidence discipline
• GCP guardrails concepts (policy constraints, IAM hardening, logging requirements)
• Practical delivery mindset: implementable standards, not just documentation

Nice-to-have:

• Threat modeling; vulnerability management integration; incident response practices.
• Success measures: Fewer control gaps, faster audit responses, fewer onboarding rework cycles.

Job Summary: We are looking for a skilled GCP Architect to lead the design and implementation of secure, scalable, and policy-compliant cloud solutions on Google Cloud Platform. The role requires strong expertise in GCP Identity, Networking, and Policy Management, along with working knowledge of IAM, CI/CD, and SRE practices. The candidate will be responsible for defining cloud architecture standards, implementing governance guardrails, and enabling secure and reliable cloud adoption across enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement GCP architecture with focus on identity, networking, and organization-level policy controls. Define and manage IAM strategy, including roles, permissions, service accounts, and least-privilege access models.
• Architect secure and scalable network solutions including VPCs, subnets, firewall rules, load balancers, DNS, and hybrid connectivity.
• Establish and enforce cloud governance using GCP policies, standards, and security best practices.
• Develop and support landing zone architecture for multi-project and multi-environment GCP setups.
• Partner with security, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure compliant and secure cloud deployments.
• Enable CI/CD integration for infrastructure and application deployment with appropriate policy and security checks.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption for automated, repeatable, and auditable provisioning of GCP resources.
• Support SRE practices by improving observability, reliability, incident response, and operational resilience.
• Review cloud environments for IAM, network, and policy gaps and recommend remediation actions.
• Troubleshoot complex cloud issues related to identity, connectivity, deployment automation, and platform stability.
• Create and maintain architecture documents.

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