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Tata Consultancy Services Limited
Sr GCP Cloud Architect
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What they do
A Cloud Architect designs a business' cloud computing strategy. Oversees application architecture and deployment in cloud environments. Integrates cloud applications with other applications. Acts as an advisor to the business on ongoing cloud management strategies.
$147,511 / year median in California
+0% projected growth
Job Description
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills Qualifications
- 8+ years in cloud/platform/data engineering, including 4+ years hands-on with GCP.
- Strong Linux, containers, and Kubernetes fundamentals; GKE experience preferred.
- Expertise in IAM, networking, security best practices, and secrets management on GCP.
- Proficiency in Terraform, CI/CD, Python or Go, and SQL; solid schema/design and performance tuning skills. Proven ownership of production systems, on-call, and resilience improvements Roles & Responsibilities Sr GCP Cloud Architect (8+ years) Summary
- Lead architecture, implementation, and operations of secure, reliable, and cost-efficient solutions on Google Cloud Platform.
- Strong candidate with Hands on experience in GCP, Terraform and scripting and automation Responsibilities
- Architect and deliver GCP workloads using Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL/Spanner, Pub/Sub.
- Build infrastructure as code and CI/CD (Terraform, Cloud Build, Git) with environment promotion and guardrails.
- Implement identity and security controls (IAM, service accounts, Secrets Manager, KMS, org policies, VPC Service Controls).
- Design scalable networking (VPCs, subnets, NAT, load balancers, Private Service Connect) and interconnectivity.
- Establish observability and SRE practices (Cloud Monitoring, Logging, Error Reporting; SLIs/SLOs, alerting, runbooks).
- Develop data platforms and pipelines with BigQuery, Dataflow/Beam, Composer/Airflow, Dataproc; batch and streaming.
- Automate operations with Cloud Functions/Run and APIs; drive reliability, performance, and cost optimization.
- Lead incident response and postmortems; mentor engineers and document standards. Generic Managerial Skills, If any Preferred
- Multi-project org/folder design and centralized policy controls.
- FinOps, quota management, and cost governance.
- Migration experience from on-prem or other clouds.