Job Title: GCP Cloud Architect Location: Sunnyvale, CA Duration: Contract Rate : $60/hr on C2C Skills required:- Google Cloud Platform, Terraform, Scripting and automation, Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage , Cloud SQL/Spanner, Pub/Sub Role Descriptions: • 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. 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. Preferred • Multi-project org/folder design and centralized policy controls. • FinOps, quota management, and cost governance. • Migration experience from on-prem or other clouds. Kind regards, Venu Gopal Flexon Technologies Inc. venu@flexontechnologies.com — Related