Cloud Delivery Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Poland.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of delivering Google Cloud engagements from the design phase to handover.

• Manage several fixed-budget projects simultaneously.

• Facilitate weekly meetings, workshops, and handover sessions with customer engineers and CTOs.

• Transform presales commitments into production-ready Google Cloud solutions.

• Execute AWS/Azure to GCP migrations utilizing controlled wave-based cutovers.

• Design and implement Google Cloud foundations/landing zones, which include resource hierarchy, IAM, Organization Policies, network topology, and security controls implemented through Terraform.

• Create and deploy GKE platforms, which involve private clusters, Workload Identity, Helm add-ons, ingress, and Cloud Armor.

• Support DevOps and infrastructure as code by importing custom-built environments into Terraform and developing reusable modules.

• Implement GitHub Actions with Workload Identity Federation and GitOps practices using Argo CD.

• Maintain project boards and hours, safeguard scope via change management, and identify budget deviations at an early stage.

• Conduct handovers with comprehensive documentation, runbooks, and knowledge transfer.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive hands-on experience in production architecture on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Proficiency in Terraform, including modular reusable code, remote state management, and importing custom-built environments.

• Strong customer-facing English skills for facilitating workshops, weekly meetings, and handovers with customer engineers and CTOs.

• Practical experience with production Kubernetes/GKE, including private clusters, node pools, autoscaling, RBAC, Workload Identity, Helm, and ingress.

• Knowledge of networking and security principles, including VPC design, Cloud NAT/DNS/VPN, Private Service Connect, firewall policies, IAM, Organization Policies, and Secret Manager.

• Experience with CI/CD practices using GitHub Actions or similar tools, keyless authentication to GCP, container workflows, and GitOps with Argo CD or equivalent.

• Familiarity with AWS or Azure and the ability to analyze source environments being migrated.

• Regular use of AI tools with sound judgment about what to accept, reject, and the rationale behind those decisions.

• Proficiency in English.

• Experience in production-scale migration, including CDC/logical replication, is a plus.

• Exposure to open-source platforms such as Kafka, Elasticsearch, Istio, Prometheus/Grafana, or Vault is advantageous.

• Familiarity with BigQuery, Dataflow, or Gemini is an added benefit.

• Experience in regulated/fintech delivery, including VPC-SC, CMEK, or Cloud Armor, is a plus.

• A consulting background with fixed-scope engagements is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Funding for Google Cloud certification.

• Expectation to achieve Google Cloud certification within the first few months if not already obtained.