Job Type:
Full time
Exempt/Non Exempt:
Salary
Job Description:
Position Description
Location Details: Remote Location.
Position Schedule / Shift: Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm.
Position Summary: Lead the design and delivery of secure, customer-centric cloud solutions integrated with on-premises systems. Guide ACG’s cloud strategy, adoption, architecture, management, and monitoring as technology evolves. Serve as an AWS/GCP expert, define solution designs, collaborate with business and technical teams, and provide cross-training and knowledge transfer.
Key Responsibilities:
Primary Duties and Responsibilities (details of the basic job functions):
Responsible for the leadership, facilitation, analysis and design tasks related to the development of seamless customer centric solutions. Defines, designs, and delivers cloud architecture for enterprise applications hosted or built natively on the cloud and integrating with on-premises systems.
Overseeing ACG cloud computing strategy including cloud adoption plans, cloud application design, cloud management, Cloud Security and monitoring.
Steer architecture strategy as technology evolves
Act as subject matter expert on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Define the conceptual, logical and physical design for cloud-based solutions
Work with business units, application developers, security, and infrastructure engineers to design and build application components within GCP/AWS and other cloud providers
Provide cross training and/or knowledge transfer to colleagues as necessary, particularly on GCP/AWS platforms.
Qualifications:
Required
Education (include minimum education and any licensing/certifications):
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Mathematics, or Engineering, or in the alternative, a combination of education, certifications and work experience equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Mathematics, or Engineering.
Experience:
6+ years of experience
GCP or AWS certification is a must
2+ years of experience AWS and/or GCP platform, architecture and related technologies
2+ years of experience as an Architect with specialization in at least one technology domain (e.g. cloud computing, data management, integration, security, infrastructure, or application development)
2+ years of experience supporting software development projects utilizing cloud technologies. (Past roles may include systems architect, software developer, and/or systems engineer.)
Knowledge and Skills:
Proven ability to understand business objectives and translate into conceptual architecture
Ability to analyze business operations and processes to understand their relationships, and drive business process optimization
Experience with modern development and testing techniques such as continuous delivery and continuous integration
Preferred
5+ years of hands-on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience designing and supporting enterprise cloud solutions.
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification preferred , with strong practical GCP architecture experience.
Strong experience with GCP networking , including VPC, Shared VPC, Private Service Connect, load balancing, routing, private connectivity, and hybrid connectivity.
Hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code , including reusable modules, CI/CD pipelines, and technical review of infrastructure changes.
Strong knowledge of GKE/GKE Autopilot, Cloud Run, Compute Engine, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, AlloyDB, Pub/Sub, and other GCP-native services .
Strong understanding of GCP IAM, service accounts, least-privilege access, organization policies, security controls, and cloud governance .
Experience with GCP landing zones, organization/project structures, migrations, modernization, high availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, and operational readiness .
Experience performing cloud architecture and technical design reviews , identifying risks, establishing standards, and recommending…