GCP Cloud Architect

Role Summary We are looking for experienced Cloud Architects to define, govern, and deliver enterprise-grade cloud solutions across Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. The selected candidates will support ongoing/upcoming customer projects. 10+ years of overall IT/cloud experience, including significant architecture and customer-facing solution design experience. Primary certifications aligned to the vacancy: GCP roles: Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect. Key Responsibilities: • Own end-to-end cloud solution architecture for assigned customer engagements. • Design secure, scalable, and highly available Azure/GCP architectures, including landing zones, subscription/project structures, networking, identity, security, monitoring, and governance. • Translate business and technical requirements into architecture decisions, HLDs, LLDs, reference designs, and implementation roadmaps. • Lead design discussions for migration, modernization, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud integration, backup, disaster recovery, and resilience. • Work with delivery teams to validate build approaches, review technical configurations, and support issue/risk resolution. • Ensure architectures align with enterprise security, compliance, and operational standards, especially for banking/regulated customers. • Support technical workshops, customer presentations, architecture walkthroughs, and steering discussions. • Contribute to effort estimates, technical proposals, BoM inputs, design assumptions, and solution dependencies where required. • Guide automation and Infrastructure as Code adoption using appropriate tools and reusable patterns. • Mentor engineers/architects and help establish repeatable cloud architecture best practices. Required Skill Sets: • Strong architecture expertise in Azure and/or GCP, aligned to the assigned vacancy. • GCP track: strong knowledge of organization/project structure, IAM, VPC/Shared VPC, firewalling, VPN/Interconnect concepts, Private Service Connect concepts, Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, load balancing, logging/monitoring, backup, and resilience • Proven capability in high-level and low-level design documentation. • Experience with cloud governance, security baseline design, HA/DR, RTO/RPO-driven architecture, and operational handover. • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and automation patterns using Terraform, Bicep/ARM, scripts, and CI/CD principles. • Strong stakeholder management and customer communication skills. Nice to have: • Experience delivering cloud architecture for banking, financial services, or other regulated enterprises. • Exposure to cloud migration programs, application modernization, platform engineering, and enterprise security tooling. • Experience supporting presales, solutioning, technical workshops, and architecture governance boards. • Working understanding of cost optimization/FinOps, observability, and operational excellence models. • Salt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. • 10+ years of overall IT/cloud experience, including significant architecture and customer-facing solution design experience. • Primary certifications aligned to the vacancy: GCP roles: Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect. • Strong architecture expertise in Azure and/or GCP, aligned to the assigned vacancy. • GCP track: strong knowledge of organization/project structure, IAM, VPC/Shared VPC, firewalling, VPN/Interconnect concepts, Private Service Connect concepts, Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, load balancing, logging/monitoring, backup, and resilience • Proven capability in high-level and low-level design documentation. • Experience with cloud governance, security baseline design, HA/DR, RTO/RPO-driven architecture, and operational handover. • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and automation patterns using Terraform, Bicep/ARM, scripts, and CI/CD principles. • Strong stakeholder management and customer communication skills. • Nice to have: Experience delivering cloud architecture for banking, financial services, or other regulated enterprises. • Exposure to cloud migration programs, application modernization, platform engineering, and enterprise security tooling. • Experience supporting presales, solutioning, technical workshops, and architecture governance boards. • Working understanding of cost optimization/FinOps, observability, and operational excellence models.