GCP Cloud Solution Architect

Job Title: Cloud Solution Architect (GCP)

Mode of Employment: Full time Only.

Location: Raritan, NJ, USA

Experience Required

15+ Years

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced Lead DevOps Engineer / Cloud Solution Architect with deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and modern cloud-native technologies. This is a hands-on technical leadership role that combines solution design with direct implementation. The individual will design secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective cloud solutions; build critical platform components and automation; and lead engineers through delivery and production support.

The role requires practical expertise in GCP networking, identity and access management, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, container orchestration, serverless technologies, observability, data services, and generative AI platforms. The candidate will translate business and nonfunctional requirements into implementable solution designs, validate decisions through prototypes and hands-on engineering, develop reusable patterns, review technical deliverables, and troubleshoot complex production issues. The role will partner with application, data, security, architecture, and operations teams to ensure solutions meet security, compliance, reliability, performance, operational, and cost objectives. Solid AWS experience is expected; Azure experience is preferred but not required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with the Gemini Agent Platform, Vertex AI, generative AI solutions, AI/ML operationalization, and responsible AI governance.

• Hands-on AWS architecture experience with IAM, VPC, EKS, Lambda, CloudFormation, and Terraform.

• Experience applying the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework and leading cloud architecture assessments.

• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification is strongly preferred; Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, Cloud Security Engineer, or Cloud Network Engineer certifications are advantageous.

• Kubernetes certifications such as CKA, CKAD, or CKS are highly desirable.

• Azure architecture experience is beneficial but not required.