[Remote] Platform Architect / Google Cloud Architect

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Quantiphi is an award-winning Applied AI and Big Data software and services company, driven by a deep desire to solve transformational problems at the heart of businesses. They are seeking a hands-on Google Cloud Architect to design and bootstrap a scalable, secure, and resilient GCP foundation for their engineering teams, while also leading reference implementations and partnering with various teams to evolve their cloud operating model. Responsibilities • Design & Build the GCP Foundation • Define organization structure (folders, projects), naming/labeling, resource hierarchy, billing and quotas • Implement a Hub-and-Spoke VPC architecture, Shared VPC, Private Service Connect, Cloud NAT, and secure ingress/egress patterns • Establish network segmentation, hierarchical firewall policies, perimeter controls (VPC SC), and DNS strategy • Identity & Access (IAM) at Scale • Build least-privilege IAM with custom roles, service accounts, workload identity federation, and group-based access • Implement policy-as-code and Organization Policies for consistent guardrails • Fault-Tolerant, Well-Architected Designs • Architect multi-zone and multi-region patterns for GKE/Compute/Serverless; DR/RTO/RPO strategies; data durability and backup policies • Create resilience playbooks (circuit breakers, retries, blue/green & canary, zonal/region failover) • Observability & Operations • Implement a logging, metrics, and tracing stack with Cloud Logging/Monitoring, uptime checks, SLOs/SLIs, alerting, dashboards • Define golden signals, distributed tracing standards, error budgets, and operational runbooks • Project Design/Build/Management • Lead project templates and blueprints (Terraform/Deployment Manager), CI/CD integration, and environment promotion workflows • Run architecture reviews, threat modeling, and cost/perf trade-off analyses • Enablement & Governance • Stand up CICD + IaC pipelines, artifact management, and baseline security scanning • Partner with SecOps to embed CSPM and continuous compliance (CIS, NIST, SOC 2) • Mentor engineers; publish reference architectures and how-to guides Skills • 7+ years designing and building on public cloud (3+ on Google Cloud Platform) • Deep expertise in Cloud Networking: VPC/Shared VPC, subnetting, Cloud NAT, Cloud Router, Private Service Connect, VPN/Interconnect, DNS, firewall policies, VPC SC • Strong IAM design at enterprise scale: org policies, custom roles, SA lifecycle, workload identity, secrets management • Proven project design/build/management: templating (Terraform), CI/CD integration, environment strategy (dev/test/stage/prod) • Observability: Cloud Logging/Monitoring, tracing (OpenTelemetry), SLO/SLI design, alerting strategy • Fault tolerance & reliability engineering: multi-zone/region designs, DR strategies, backup/restore, chaos/failover testing • Hands-on with Terraform, Git, CI/CD (Cloud Build/GitHub Actions/Jenkins), and one scripting language (Python/Go/Bash) • Strong communicator who can lead design docs, ADRs, and cross-team design reviews • Certifications: Google Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Cloud Network Engineer, Professional DevOps Engineer • Experience with GKE (autoscaling, node pools, HPA/VPA), Anthos, or serverless (Cloud Run/Functions) • Security tools: Security Command Center, DLP, KMS/HSM • Data-plane familiarity: Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Dataflow, Spanner/Cloud SQL high availability patterns • FinOps: budget governance, labels/tags, cost allocation and optimization Company Overview • Quantiphi is a digital engineering company that provides data science and machine learning software and services. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.quantiphi.com. Company H1B Sponsorship • Quantiphi has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 45 in 2025, 65 in 2024, 45 in 2023, 94 in 2022, 71 in 2021, 46 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job